The Leningrad manuscript, sometimes called the Leningrad Bede, is an early surviving manuscript of Bede's 8th century history, the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiatical History of the English People). It is so named because it was taken to Saint Petersburg (later known as Leningrad) in Russia at the time of the French Revolution. The Leningrad manuscript is dated to about 746, about fifteen years after the original (731) and 11 years after Bede's death. The Moore manuscript is somewhat older, dating to about 737.

Reference

• Prestwich, J. O. "King Æthelhere and the battle of the Winwaed", The English Historical Review, Vol. 83, No. 326. (January 1968), pages 89–95 (in particular page 92).

Robin Lane Fox , in "The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible", states the following: "Our earliest full copy of the Hebrew scriptures nowadays is a manuscript known as the Leningrad Manuscript, which was written in AD 1009. The form of its Hebrew text can be traced further back, to groups of Jewish scholars who were working in the eighth and ninth centuries AD..."

Reference

• Fox, Robin Lane, "The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible", Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991, chapter: Authors Anonymous, page 99, paragraph 2.