The Moore Bede, opening page of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, Cambridge University Library MS Kk.5.16, fol. 1r, Northumbria, c. 737.

Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum: Book I

Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum — Bede's monumental ecclesiastical history of the English people, tracing the Christianisation of Britain from the Roman mission of Augustine of Canterbury to the early eighth century.