File:Mappa Mundi from Bede, De natura rerum.jpg

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English: Basic schematic T-O mappa mundi within seven circles of the universe, surrounded by four horned angels, each holding a trumpet in MS. on vellum: Bede, De natura rerum. The circles are labelled, from outside in, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Venus, Mercury, Moon[?]. Shelfmark: MS. Canon. Misc. 560, fol. 23r
Date between 1055 and 1074
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Author
Bede (672–735)  wikidata:Q154938 s:en:Author:Bede q:en:Bede
 
Bede
Alternative names
Saint Bede
Saint Bede the Venerable
Venerable Bede
Description English monk and historian
English: A monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth (today part of Sunderland), England who is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The Father of English History". He was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII in 1899.
Date of birth/death circa 672 26 May 735
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