Bede’s Early Reading.

Ruby Davis.

APPARENTLY there is no adequate list of the books that helped to make Bede the foremost scholar of his day in Western Europe, a man in whom ‘the whole learning of his age seemed to be summed up.’ Plummer, it is true, gives a ‘stately’ list of about 140 authors known to Bede either at first or second hand. But Plummer’s extended footnote is at best the basis for ampler study; I here present a fuller account of the books Bede read, as well as those he probably read, since they were accessible to him, during his early years. For reasons I shall give in Section IV, Bede’s thirtieth year marks the limit of my investigation.

Ruby Davis. Bede’s Early Reading. Speculum, Vol. 8, No. 2 Apr., pp. 179-195. 1933.

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