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Bede, Willibrord and the Letters of Pope Honorius I on the genesis of the archbishopric of York*
31 from Pope Honorius are the subject of this article
Known only through the pages of Bede’s History, copies of both these letters have been identified within an early eighthcentury manuscript that has no other connection with Bede’s text. This manuscript was made 38 at Echternach, in modern day Luxembourg, for Willibrord (658–739), the Northumbrian missionary archbishop of Frisia.[2]. This copy of the letters of Pope Honorius I has not been studied before now and analysis of it has far reaching implications for our understanding of a number of important issues, namely: the division of the English Church into two provinces each headed by a metropolitan bishop, as envisaged by Gregory the Great in his letters to Augustine of Canterbury; the circumstances surrounding establishment of the archbishopric of York in 735 and Bede’s involvement in that process; the circulation and transmission of
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Willibrord and the Letters of Pope Honorius I on the genesis of the archbishopric of York*. Paris letters) to Phase II significantly away from Julian Brown’s early eighth century date to the middle decades of the eighth century, based on a wholesale re-dating of the two earliest copies of Bede’s History.[93] Without addressing any of the detail of Dumville’s argument, it is 38 relevant to note that the Easter Table in the Calendar for the years 760–78 was copied in a confident, well-established Phase II minuscule, and must surely pre-date 760; the Calendar was a functional manuscript and was kept up to date, so it is inherently unlikely that 19-year tables were copied retrospectively This is evidence that at least one Echternach scribe was able to write high quality, well-established Phase II Insular minuscule by 760, and this gives. 24 the record of Bede’s death (on 26 May 735) as the last event in the entry for that year, so it would be nice to think that he did
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