A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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ID
https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/N.Bede.Epit
Title
Epitaph of Bede
Language
Latin
Edited
M. Lapidge, 'Some Remnants of Bede's Lost Liber epigrammatum', English Historical Review 90 (1975), 798-820, at 819-20
Listed
ICL 12463
Metre
hexameter
MSS
lost, known from William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum i.62; Leland, Coll. iii.118
Bibliography
  • Plummer, Venerabilis Baedae opera Historica (Oxford, 1896), vol. I, p. lxxviii; Colgrave & Mynors, HE, p. lxxiii; P. Sims-Williams, Religion and literature in the west of England, 600-800 (Cambridge, 1990), 351-3
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N.Bede.Epit

N.Bede.Epit 1. Presbyter hic Beda requiescit, carne sepultus. Presbyter hic Beda requiescit, carne sepultus.
caesura pattern: 2m | 3m | 4d, fs: 2\3, pat: DSDS
N.Bede.Epit 2. Dona, Christe, animam in celis gaudere per euum Dona, Christe, animam in celis gaudere per euum
caesura pattern: 2f? | 3m | 4m, fs: 1\2, pa: c, e: ?m, pat: SDSS
N.Bede.Epit 3. Daque illi sophiae debriari fonte, cui tam Daque illi sophiae debriari fonte, cui tam
fs: 2\3, pa: d, e: s, pat: SDDS, q: X
N.Bede.Epit 4. Suspirauit ouans intento semper amore. Suspirauit ouans intento semper amore.
caesura pattern: 2f | 3m | 4d, fs: 2\3, ca: s, pa: s, oa: s, ma: Y, pat: SDSS