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Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: The Hagiography of the Female Saints of Ely

Title:

Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: The Hagiography of the Female Saints of Ely

Author:

Love, R. C.

Series:

Oxford Medieval Texts

Location:

Oxford

Notes:

CCCC MS 393 Brief description of CCCC MS 393, providing a list of its contents and stating that the copy was most probably made at Ely c. 1116-31, pp. l-lii Edition of two recensions of the Vita Sancte Aethdrethe taken from CCCC MS 393 (siglum C) ff. 3r-33v and Trinity College, Dublin 172 (B.2.7) (siglum D) pp. 259-75, pp. 190-203 Discussion of the hagiographic tradition of St Aethelthryth, in which it is observed that the prose account of the posthumous miracles of the saint are uniquely taken forward in to the early twelfth century in CCCC MS 393, pp. lix-lxxi Discussion of the hagiographic tradition of St Aethelthryth, in which it is observed that the unfinished verse life and posthumous miracles of the saint as found uniquely in CCCC MS 393 was the first substantially new account of her life since Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica, p. lix Discussion of the hagiographic tradition of St Wihtburge, concluding that the version of the Vita in CCCC MS 393 (siglum C) (or a text very similar to it) served as the model for the version of the text as found in Trinity College, Cambridge O.2.I (siglum T), dating the composition of the C text to c. 1106-7 and speculating that it could be the work of Goscelin of St Bertin, pp. lxxxvi-xcix Discussion of the relationship between the manuscript witnesses to the texts of the Lectiones in Festivitate Sancte Sexburge, Lectiones in Natale Sancte Eormenhilde, Vita Sancte Werburge Uirginis, Vita Sancte Wihtburge Uirginis, Miracula Sancte Aetheldrethe uirginis as found in CCCC MS 393 (siglum C), pp. cxx-cxxxvi Edition and translation into English of the Lectiones in Festivitate Sancte Sexburge taken from CCCC MS 393 (siglum C) ff. 69r-71v and BL Cotton Caligula A.VIII (siglum A) ff. 93v-95v, pp. 1-9 Edition and translation into English of the Lectiones in Natale Sancte Eormenhilde taken from CCCC MS 393 (siglum C) ff. 71v-75r, BL Cotton Caligula A.VIII (siglum A) ff. 95v-98r and Trinity College, Cambridge O.2.I (siglum T) ff. 228r-230v, pp. 11-23 Edition and translation into English of the Miracula Sancte Aetheldrethe uirginis taken from CCCC MS 393 (siglum C) ff. 3r-33v and Trinity College, Dublin 172 (B.2.7) (siglum D) pp. 259-75, pp. 95-131 Edition and translation into English of the Vita Sancte Werburge uirginis taken from CCCC MS 393 (siglum C) ff. 75r-81v, BL Cotton Caligula A.VIII (siglum A) ff. 86r-91v, Brussels Bibl. Royale Albert Ier 8873-8 (siglum B) ff. 43r-58v, Trinity College, Dublin 172 (siglum D) pp. 253-9, Bodl. Lib. Bodley 285 (siglum O) ff. 159r-161v and Trinity College, Cambridge O.2.I (siglum T) ff. 231v-236r, pp. 25-51 Edition and translation into English of the Vita Sancte Wihtburge uirginis taken from CCCC MS 393 (siglum C) ff. 59r-71v, Trinity College, Cambridge O.2.I (siglum T) ff. 236v-240v and the Blake edition of the Liber Eliensis (siglum E) II, pp. 53, 144, 147-8, pp. 53-93

Editor:

Binns, J. W. and Blair, W. J. and d’Avray, D. and Lapidge, M.

Reference Type:

Book

Manuscript:

nt685jr6866