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- [12 cent.] / [the Venerable] Bede. (Creation)
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8 ff. (foliated ii ff. + 6 ff.) : vellum ; 222 x 164 mm. Rebound in full leather in 1977, sewn between covers and the old holes re-used.
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Two bifolia containing part of Bede's De natura rerum (cap. 27-48), written in Wales in the twelfth century.
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Item: 2.1. Action: Digitized. Action identifier: Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). Date: 20140811. Site of action: NLW. Authorization: NLW. Authorizing institution: Bill Endres of the University of Kentucky. Extent: ff. 1v, 3v. Type of unit: Folios.
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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Latin.
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The description is also available in Graham C. G. Thomas, Peniarth MSS: Additional (Aberystwyth, 1990), 8.
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Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4398303 (viewed September 2018)
Available on microfilm at the Library.
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See D. Huws, 'A Welsh manucript of Bede's De natura rerum', Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, XXVII, pp. 491-504.
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Preferred citation: Peniarth MS 540 [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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