Benwell is an area in the West End of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. Until 1974 it was in Northumberland.
Benwell
Charlotte Pit, Benwell, c. 1935
Historia de Sancto Cuthberto
The Historia de Sancto Cuthberto is a historical compilation finished some time after 1031. It is an account of the history of the bishopric of St Cuthbert—based successively at Lindisfarne, Norham, Chester-le-Street and finally Durham—from the life of St Cuthbert himself onwards. The latest event documented is a grant by King Cnut, c. 1031. The work is a cartulary chronicle recording grants and losses of property as well as miracles of retribution, under a loose narrative of temporal progression. The text survives in three manuscripts, the earliest of which dates from around 1100. The original version of the text is not thought to be extant; rather, all surviving manuscripts are thought to be copies of an earlier but lost exemplar. The Historia is one of the sources for the histories produced at Durham in the early 12th century, particularly the Historia Regum and Symeon of Durham's Libellus de Exordio.
The opening page of the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto in the Cambridge University Library Ff. 1.27 manuscript
Cuthbert meets Boisil at Melrose monastery; 12th-century miniature from British Library Yates Thomson MS 26 version of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert
Æthelstan presenting a book to St Cuthbert (934); Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 183, fol. 1v