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- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionVersus de Die Iudicii
- Close sectionVita Metrica S. Cudbercti
- Sigla
- Salutation
- Preface
- I. How Cuthbert, the Child of God, Was Exhorted by an Infant when his Episcopacy had been Prophesied
- II. How he was Made Lame with a Diseased Knee, and was Cured by an Angel's Medication
- III. How with his Prayer he Changed the Winds and Brought Back to Shore Some Rafts which had Drifted out to Sea
- IV. How in the Company of Shepherds he Saw the Soul of the Sainted Bishop Aidan Being Carried to Heaven by Angels
- V. How this same Aidan, when Foretelling a Sea-Storm, Gave to the Sailors Some Oil with which the Storm Could be Calmed
- VI. How Cuthbert During a Journey Discovered Food at the Prompting of a Horse
- VII. How when Taking in an Angel as his Guest he Sought to Provide him with Earthly Bread, he was Found Worthy to be Repaid by him with Celestial Bread
- VIII. How Some Animals of the Sea, in Which he had Spent the Night in Prayer, offered to him Their Obeisance as he came out, and how Through his Prayer he Restored the Monk who Became Ill Through Fear after Witnessing These Events
- IX. How he Foretold the Advent, on a Specific Day, of a Calm Sea to Mariners who Were Land-Bound by a Storm, and Through his Prayers Obtained Food for them
- X. How During a Journey he Both Predicted that he was to Receive Sustenance from an Eagle's Ministrations, and did Indeed Receive it
- XI. How while he was Preaching to the People he both Foresaw that an Imaginary Devilish Fire Would Arrive, and then Extinguished it on Arrival
- XII. How Through Prayer he Extinguished the Flames of a Certain Burning House
- XIII. How he Cast out a Demon from a Woman Even Before he got to Her
- XIV. How he Lived Among the Monks of Lindisfarne, but was ever Intent on the Solitary Life
- XV. How he Made for Himself a Dwelling on Farne Island Once he had Driven away the Demons
- XVI. How with his Prayers he Brought Forth Water from the Dry Rock: He Even Once Turned Water Into Wine for Drinking Purposes
- XVII. How with a Word he Drove Away the Birds from the Crop which he had Sown with his Own Hand
- XVIII. How by Means of Prayers and a Gift the Ravens Repaired an Injury which they had Inflicted on the Man of God
- XIX. How the Sea Served this Same Saint
- XX. How when Giving Encouragement Towards Salvation to the Many who Came to him he Exposed the Flimsy Deceits of the Ancient Enemy
- XXI. His Prophecy Concerning the Life of King Ecgfrith, and about his (Own) Episcopacy
- XXII. How he did not Abandon the Monastic way of Life Once Raised to the Episcopacy
- XXIII. He Cured the Wife of a Nobleman with Holy Water Through the Agency of a Priest
- XXIV. He Cured a Young Girl of the Pain in her Head and Side by Anointing her with Chrism
- XXV. A Sick Man is Cured by Bread which the Man of God had Blessed
- XXVI. He Calls Back to Life a Dying Young Man who was Brought to him on the Way
- XXVII. At the Time of the Plague he Restored a Dying Boy to his Mother
- XXVIII. That all his Accomplishments cannot be Enumerated
- XXIX. Although Absent he sees with the Spirit the Death of King Ecgfrith and his War-Band, Which he had Foretold
- XXX. How the man of God Predicted to the Anchorite Hereberht his Death, and how Through his Prayers he Obtained from the Lord that Man's Companionship (Through Eternity)
- XXXI. He saw the Soul of a Certain man, who had Died Falling from a tree, Being Borne to Heaven
- XXXII. After two years of his Episcopacy he Seeks Again the Solitary Life
- XXXIII. How in his Terminal Illness he Gave Orders for his Body to be Buried on the same Island, while at the same Time Alluding to its Posthumous Glory
- XXXIV. He Says that he had Overcome More Painful Afflictions in his Terminal Illness
- XXXV. How Sick Himself he Cured one of his Attendants from Dysentery
- XXXVI. Having Received the Last Rites he Yielded his Spirit While Saying his Prayers
- XXXVII. How in Accordance with the Prophecy of the Psalm which they had been Singing as he Died, the Monks of Lindisfarne were Attacked but were Protected through the Lord's Assistance
- XXXVIII. How his Body was Discovered Incorrupt after Eleven Years
- XXXIX. How in Burying the Body of Bishop Eadberht in Cuthbert's Tomb they Placed his Coffin on top of Cuthbert's
- XL. How a Boy Possessed by a Demon is Cured by a bit of Earth Placed in the Water in which the Saint's Body had been Washed
- XLI. A Sick Man is Cured Through Prayer at his Tomb
- XLII. A Man Cured his Diseased Eyes by Touching the Handkerchief of the Saint
- XLIII. A Paralytic is Cured by the Saint's Shoes
- XLIV. How Sick Persons are Cured by the Covering of his Wall
- XLV. How Oidilwald, the Successor of the Man of God, Tried to Conceal his Miraculous Powers
- XLVI. How Felgild the Anchorite was Healed of a Facial Tumour in that Same Place
- Close sectionLiber Epigrammatum (reconstructed)
- I. Verses of Bede Concerning the Treatise of Jerome on Isaiah
- II. Riddles of Bede
- III. Bede's Epigram for St Michael [Lost]
- IV. Bede's Epigram for St Mary on the Consecration of a Church Built in her Honour [Lost]
- V. Bede's Verses on the Side-Chapel of the Church of St Mary Built by Bishop Wilfrid, in which he Mentions Bishop Acca [Lost]
- VI. Titulus for an Apse in a Church Built by Bishop Cyneberht
- VII. Prefatory Epigram to Bede's Expositio Apocalypseos
- VIII. Prefatory Epigram to Bede's De Natvra Rervm
- IX. Prefatory Epigram to Bede's De Locis Sanctis
- X. Prefatory Epigram to Bede's Commentarivs in Epistolas Septem Catholicas
- XI. Epigram on the Translation of St Cuthbert (ad 698)
- XII. Epitaph for Bishop Wilfrid
- XIII. Bede's Prayer
- XIV. Metrical Version of Ps. 41 (42)
- XV. Metrical Version of Ps. 83 (84)
- XVI. Metrical Version of Ps. 112 (113)
- XVII. Fragments of Psalm Paraphrase
- XVIII. Titvli from the Codex Amiatinus
- XIX. Unlocated Line from Bede's Historia Abbatvm
- XX. Unlocated Line from the 'Urbana Sylloge'
- XXI. Unlocated Line Quoted by Thirteenth-Century Grammarians
- XXII. Concluding Epigram to Bede's Liber Epigrammatvm
- Close sectionLiber Hymnorum (reconstructed)
- I. Hymn for the Holy Innocents (28 December)
- II. Hymn to St Agnes (21 January)
- III. Hymn for Ascension Day
- IV. Hymn for Pentecost
- V. Hymn for the Nativity of John the Baptist (24 June)
- VI. Hymn for SS. Peter and Paul (29 June)
- VII. Hymn for the Decollation of St John the Baptist (29 August)
- VIII. Hymn for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (8 September)
- IX. Hymn for the Feast of St Andrew (30 November)
- X. Another Hymn for the Feast of St Andrew (30 November)
- XI. St Æthelthryth (23 June)
- XII. Hymn for the Six Days of Creation and the Six Ages of the World
- XIII. A Hymn in Trochaic Tetrameters on the day of Judgement
- XIV. A Rhythmical Hymn on the day of Judgement
- XV. A Rhythmical Hymn on the Heavenly Jerusalem
- Close section
End Matter
- Close sectionAppendix I
- Close sectionAppendix II
- Close sectionAppendix III
- Close sectionCarmina Computistica Attributed in Manuscript to Bede
- (a) Hexameter Verses on the Transience of Time
- (b) Hexameter Verses on the Months of the Year
- (c) Hexameter Verses on the Ferial (Solar) Regulars
- (d) Hexameter Verses on the Lunar Regulars
- (e) Rhythmical Trochaic Septenarii on the Reckoning of Time
- (f) Hexameter Verses on Hours and Atoms and Moments
- (g) Hexameter Verses on the Units of Time-measurement
- Close sectionCarmina Computistica Attributed in Manuscript to Bede
- Appendix IV
- Appendix V
- Close sectionAppendix V
- Bibliography
- Concordance
- Index of Quotations and Allusions
- Sources and Allusions in Classical and Patristic authors (before A.D 700)
- General Index
