Research Catalog

Title

Lives of saints / Osbern Bokenham ; edited by Simon Horobin.

Author

Bokenham, Osbern, 1393?-1447?

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2020-
• ©2020-

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Details

Additional Authors

• Horobin, Simon
• Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

Description

volumes : facsimile; 24 cm.

Summary

This is the first edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham. Unknown before the discovery of the unique manuscript in 2005, Bokenham's work comprises a complete translation of 'Legenda Aurea', a collection of saints' lives compiled by the Dominican friar Jacobus de Voragine which achieved widespread popularity throughout the Middle Ages and survives in over eight hundred manuscripts, supplemented with accounts of the lives of various British saints, including those of Cedde, Felix, Edward, and Oswald. Writing in the fifteenth century, Bokenham's work, which combines prose and verse, was influenced by major writers such as Chaucer and Lydgate, both in its content and in its verse forms and style, and thus sheds new light on their fifteenth-century reputation. Bokenham's work is also important for his naming of the patrons for whom he translated a number of these saints' lives, allowing scholars to trace networks of patronage amongst prominent members of the gentry and nobility in fifteenth-century East Anglia.--Publisher.

Series Statement

Early English Text Society. O.S. ; 356, 359

Uniform Title

Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 356, 359.

Alternative Title

Bokenham's Lives of saints

Subject

• Bokenham, Osbern, 1393?-1447?
• Christian saints > Biography > Early works to 1800
• Christian saints > Legends > Early works to 1800
• Christian saints
• Christian saints > Legends

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Early works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Latin.

Contents

• Volume I. Introduction -- I. Life -- II. Works -- III. Evidence for Authorship -- IV. The Abbotsford Manuscript -- V. Date of Composition -- VI. Translation Practice -- VII. Verse and Prose -- VIII. Readership and Patronage -- IX. The Present Edition -- Lives of Saints -- 1. Advent -- 2. Andrew -- 3. Barbara -- 4. Lucy -- 5. Thomas Apostle -- 6. Nativity of our Lord -- 7. Anastasia -- 8. Stephen -- 9. John the Evangelist -- 10. Innocents -- 11. Thomas of Canterbury -- 12. Silvester -- 13. Circumcision of our Lord -- 14. Martina -- 15. Basil -- 16. Epiphany -- 17. Paul Hermit -- 18. Remigius -- 19. Hilarius -- 20. Macarius -- 21. Felix of Nola -- 22. Maurus -- 23. Marcellus -- 24. Prisca -- 25. Anthony Abbot -- 6. Wulfstan -- 27. Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abacuk -- 28. Fabian -- 29. Sebastian -- 30. Agnes -- 31. Vincent -- 32. John Almoner -- 33. Conversion of Paul -- 34. Paula -- 35. Julianus -- 36. Cyrus and John -- 37. Septuagesima -- 38. Sexagesima -- 39. Quinquagesima -- 40. Quadragesima -- 41. Purification of Our Lady -- 42. Blaise -- 43. Gilbert -- 44. Agatha -- 45. Dorothy -- 46. William the Hermit -- 47. Vedastus -- 48. Amandus -- 49. Apollonia -- 50. Scholastica -- 51. Valentine -- 52. Juliana -- 53. Peter's Chair -- 54. Matthias -- 55. David -- 56. Cedde -- 57. Thomas Aquinas -- 58. Felix of Dunwich -- 59. Gregory -- 60. Longinus -- 61. Patrick -- 62. Benedict -- 63. Annunciation -- 64. Passion of Our Lord -- 65. Resurrection of Our Lord.
• Volume II. List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Errata for Volume I -- Lives of Saints (cont.) -- 66. Secundus -- 67. Mary Egyptian -- 68. Ambrose -- 69. George -- 70. Mark -- 71. Marcellinus Pope -- 72. Vitalis -- 73. Peter of Milan -- 74. Philip -- 75. James the Less -- 76. Invention of the Cross -- 77. John before the Latin gate -- 78. Monica -- 79. John of Beverly -- 80. Litanies -- 81. Ascension of our Lord -- 82. Pentecost -- 83. Gordianus and Epimachus -- 84. Nereus and Achilleus -- 85. Pancras -- 86. Boniface -- 87. Dunstan -- 88. Urban -- 89. Aldhelm -- 90. Eleutherius -- 91. Augustine of England -- 92. John Pope and Martyr -- 93. Petronilla -- 94. Peter Exorcist and Martyr -- 95. Erasmus -- 96. Primus and Felicianus -- 97. Barnabas -- 98. Anthony of Padua -- 99. Vitus and Modestus -- 100. Botolph -- 101. Marina -- 102. Gervase and Prothase -- 103. Silverius Pope -- 104. Alban -- 105. Paulinus -- 106. Audrey -- 107. John the Baptist -- 108. John and Paul -- 109. Leo Pope -- 110. Peter Apostle -- 111. Commemoration of Paul -- 112.Processus and Martinian -- 113. Translation of Thomas of Canterbury -- 114. Theodora -- 115. Margaret -- 116. Alexis -- 117. Mary Magdalen -- 118. Apollinaris -- 119. Christina -- 120. Nazarius -- 121. Felix Pope -- 122. Simplicius and Faustinus -- 123. Martha -- 124. Abdon and Sennen -- 125. Germanus -- 126. Eusebius -- 127. Machabees -- 128. Peter in Chains -- 129. Stephen Pope -- 130. Finding of Stephen -- 131. Dominic -- 132. Sixtus -- 133. Donatus -- 134. Cyriacus -- 135. Romanus -- 136. Laurence -- 137. Hippolytus -- 138. Simplicianus -- 139. Clare -- 140. Tiburtius prefect of Rome -- 141. Assumption of our Lady -- 142. Bernard -- 143. Bartholemew -- 144. Augustine.

Call Number

JX 23-162

ISBN

• 9780198867975
• 0198867972
• 9780192871893
• 0192871897

LCCN

2021288000

OCLC

1145092189

Author

Bokenham, Osbern, 1393?-1447?, author.

Title

Lives of saints / Osbern Bokenham ; edited by Simon Horobin.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2020-

Copyright Date

©2020-

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Early English Text Society. O.S. ; 356, 359

Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 356, 359.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Translated from the Latin.

Added Author

Horobin, Simon, editor.

Expanded version of (work): Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298. Legenda aurea.

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298. Legenda aurea. English (Middle English)

Spine Title

Bokenham's Lives of saints

Research Call Number

JX 23-162