Annotations in eighth-century manuscript point to work of revered English monk, scholar and saint
His life of service through scholarship earned him the title “venerable”. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the post-Roman world, and acknowledged as a saint in the Orthodox, Catholic and Anglican traditions.
In the preface to the Book of Kings in the Codex Amiatinus – a Bible that was taken to Rome from Jarrow in 715 and is now in a Florentine archive – she found parallels between grammar and linguistics within annotated passages and Bede’s published writings. She said: “We know that Bede knew Greek. Not that many people did know Greek at that time. So we’ve got the marginalia and the way in which he marks up. The little zigzag lines that look like lightning flashes he invented like a yellow magic marker to indicate when he was quoting a passage – a passage of the Old Testament period in the New Testament, for example. So it’s got these mark-ups that he’s only inventing around this period.
“He was referring to the Old Testament use of the word scribe as a priestly function for writing scripture … Given that Codex Amiatinus … [was] such an incredible intellectual feat, it is unthinkable that Bede’s hand would not be present.”
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