Bede reprint prized for illustrious provenance
The first printed copy of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica was published in Strasbourg as early as c.1475 with subsequent versions printed in Vienna (1513), Strasbourg again (1500), Haguenau (1506), Paris (1544) and Antwerp (1550).
The copy that sold for a multi-estimate sum at Mallams of Oxford on September 25 was a 1566 reprin…