Tiberius Bede

British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II, or the Tiberius Bede, is an 8th-century illuminated manuscript of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

It is one of only four surviving 8th-century manuscripts of Bede, another of which happens to be MS Cotton Tiberius A. XIV, produced at Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey.

This manuscript may have been the Latin text on which the Alfredian Old English translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History was based.

Apart from the Tiberius Bede, the group includes: Vespasian Psalter, Stockholm Codex Aureus, Barberini Gospels, Book of Cerne,[2] Blickling Psalter, Codex Bigotianus (BnF MS lat.

281, 298),[3] Royal Bible (British Library MS Royal 1.E.vi),[4] Royal Prayerbook, Book of Nunnaminster,[5] Harleian Prayerbook,[6] Saint Petersburg Gospels,[7] Anglian collection manuscript V (British Library MS Cotton Vespasian B.vi, folios 104–109),[2][8][9] BnF MS lat.