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The Corpus of Anonymous Lives and their Manuscript Context

Title:

The Corpus of Anonymous Lives and their Manuscript Context

Author:

Scragg, D. G.

Location:

Albany, NY

Notes:

• Included in a catalogue of manuscripts containing anonymous Old English saints’ lives, under siglum B; these lives are part of the added marginal material in thie eleventh-century copy of the Old English Bede; the Assumption of the Virgin (Cameron B3.3.21) is a translation of a Latin source independently translated in the Blickling Homilies; the "anaphoric" Michael text (Cameron B3.3.24) is unique, p. 211
• Included in a catalogue of manuscripts containing anonymous Old English saints’ lives, under siglum F; dating to the eleventh century; contains two relevant pieces, Assumption of the Virgin (Cameron B3.3.20) and St Andrew (Cameron B3.3.1), p. 212
• Included in a catalogue of manuscripts containing anonymous Old English saints’ lives, under siglum G; an early eleventh-century manuscript from Canterbury or Rochester; contains a unique but incomplete text on the deposition of St Augustine of Canterbury (Cameron B3.3.2), p. 213
• Included in a catalogue of manuscripts containing anonymous Old English saints’ lives, under siglum H; dating to s. xii 1; contains eleven anonymous pieces, five unique; the four saints’ lives are Invention of the Cross (Cameron B3.36), Margaret (Cameron B3.3.15), Giles (Cameron B3.3.9), and Nicholas (Cameron B3.3.29), the last three being unique, pp. 213-14
• This collection of fragments is included in a catalogue of manuscripts containing anonymous Old English saints’ lives, under siglum fa; it contains an almost complete copy of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Cameron B3.3.18) dating to the twelfth century, pp. 219-20
• Together with Lawrence, Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, C2 item 1, included in a catalogue of manuscripts containing anonymous Old English saints’ lives, under siglum fb; contains the Legendary History of the Cross (Cameron B3.3.5), dating to the middle of the eleventh century, p. 220

Editor:

Szarmach, P. E.

Pages:

209–30

Book Title:

Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints’ Lives and their Context

Reference Type:

Book section

Manuscript:

fh878gz0315