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Beda, Liber Chronicarum (Rijksmuseum, Wolgemut/Pleydenwurff workshop, 1493)

Woodcut, workshop of Michel Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, 1493, Rijksmuseum

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A woodcut from the workshop of Michel Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, made in 1493 as an illustration to Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, showing a seated monk reading beside a flower chalice, with printed text identifying him as Bede the monk and historian. Held today by the Rijksmuseum.

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Bede, Figures

The Rijksmuseum's own curatorial description states that the woodcut's printed text identifies the reading monk as Bede.

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