HOLLIS 'Bede Retractationes Acts Apostles' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Bede%20Retractationes%20Acts%20Apostles&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns no records at all. The only English volume of Bede on Acts is Lawrence T. Martin's The Venerable Bede: Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles (Cistercian Studies 117, 1989), catalogued as a translation of the Corpus Christianorum title 'Expositio Actuum apostolorum et Retractatio' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Bede%20Commentary%20on%20Acts%20of%20the%20Apostles&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 but its table of contents lists only the preface and 'Chapters One through Twenty-Eight' followed by an index of sources, with no separate Retractatio section. Whether the revision was carried into English in that volume could not be established from the catalogue record, so the status is recorded as unknown rather than none. The separate Latin printing is confirmed in Migne PL 92, which has a distinct 'Liber Retractationis' (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecursu0092mign).
A short work in which Bede goes back over his own Acts commentary and records corrections, sources and second thoughts; it is the clearest surviving window onto how an early medieval exegete revised himself. It matters out of proportion to its length for the history of scholarly method, and its English status is genuinely unresolved.
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne printing) |
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| Bede | Brown, George Hardin, 1931-. "Bede." Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017-2018]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990149322170203941 |
| Bede | Chambers, R. W. (Raymond Wilson), 1874-1942. "Bede." London : Published for the British Academy by Humphrey Milford ; Oxford University Press, [1937?]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990014818820203941 |
| Bede : on the nature of things and On times | Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. "Bede : on the nature of things and On times." Liverpool [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2010. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990127020680203941 |
| Bede : the reckoning of time | Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. "Bede : the reckoning of time." Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2025. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158906416803941 |
| Bede : On the temple | Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. "Bede : On the temple." Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1995. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990065820590203941 |