The Venerable Bede · Translated by A. M. Sellar, 1907
The Venerable Bede
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Translated by A. M. Sellar, 1907
What this is
Finished at the monastery of Jarrow in 731 and the reason almost anything is known about England between the Romans leaving and the Vikings arriving. Bede wrote to correspondents for documents, named his sources, distinguished what he had been told from what he had read, and dated events from the Incarnation — which is why the whole western world now numbers its years the way he did.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A
section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a
page.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no
lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows
what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty
heading is better than invented filler.
Text: The Venerable Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People —
A. M. Sellar’s translation, George Bell and Sons, 1907, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 38326, set unaltered. Sellar’s note markers are removed and her notes are not printed; the history ends where her index begins. All 140 chapters of the five books, checked against the chapter counts of the Latin.