• This material is open for research.
• Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the text of Bede's Commentary on the Proverbs (Super parabolas Solomonis), nearly complete. Four original endleaves, at front, contain twelfth-century extracts from Peter Lombard on the Epistle to the Hebrews; exhortational material; and Latin verses (first line: Amittit proscriptus opes nec possi reverti).
• Previously owned by Robert of Canterbury (roberti di cantuaria); Anthony Watson. Ex libris William John Monson, Baron Monson. Purchased from Richard Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 60) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
• Armorial bookplate of William John Monson, Baron Monson on front pastedown.
• Ownership inscription of Anthony Watson on recto of first front endleaf.
• Ownership inscription of "roberti di cantuaria" on verso of final front endleaf.
• Layout: single columns of 31 lines.
• Script: English book hand.
• Decoration: Rubricated. Two-line initials in red, blue or green with contrasting penwork; two larger initials in red, blue and green with penwork flourishes. Large illuminated initial (f1r) in gold, enclosing gold foliage on blue and green grounds.
• Binding: nineteenth-century tooled brown leather over pasteboards; gold-lettered spine.
• Saint Bede the Venerable, Commentary on Proverbs. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Subjects:

• Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
• Bible. -- O.T. -- Proverbs
• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- 12th century.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
• Monson, William John Monson, Baron, 1796-1862

Added entry:

• Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.