Folio 128 verso, the final leaf of the Moore Bede. The texts on the lower part of the page were written by a Carolingian scribe, whose hand, Bernhard Bischoff thought, was very similar to those that had worked on manuscripts linked to Charlemagne’s court, c. 800 (e.g.: British Library, MS Harley 2788). This suggests that the manuscript had left Anglo-Saxon England before the end of the eighth century....(Joanna Story

Folio 128 verso, the final leaf of the Moore Bede. The texts on the lower part of the page were written by a Carolingian scribe, whose hand, Bernhard Bischoff thought, was very similar to those that had worked on manuscripts linked to Charlemagne’s court, c. 800 (e.g.: British Library, MS Harley 2788). This suggests that the manuscript had left Anglo-Saxon England before the end of the eighth century....(Joanna Story's introduction to the Cambridge University Library digital facsimile of the manuscript.)

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