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Supplementary lives in some manuscripts of the Gilte legende

Title
Supplementary lives in some manuscripts of the Gilte legende / edited by Richard Hamer and Vida Russell.
Publication
Oxford : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Russell, Vida.
  • Hamer, R. F. S. (Richard Frederick Sanger)
  • Early English Text Society.
Description
xxxiv, 566 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"The Gilte Legende was translated into English in 1438 from Jean de Vignay's Legende doree (composed ca. 1333-40), itself a close translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legende aurea, completed about 1267 and one of the central texts of the Middle Ages." "The Gilte Legende survives in eight manuscripts, three of which contain additional material, mostly consisting of Lives of saints, from, or related to, Britain. Many of these derive from the South English Legendary (with some use of other sources), but have been converted into prose from verse." "The twenty-six supplementary Lives include Thomas Becket, Edmund of Abingdon, Frideswide, Edward the Confessor, Erkenwald, Augustine of Canterbury, Brendan and Winifred, and, from further afield, Faith, Barbara and Jerome. Almost all of the texts have not previously been published." "Also edited are a tract on 'What the Church betokeneth', explaining some of the Church's symbolism and its services, together with a treatise setting out the indulgences available to pilgrims in each of the churches in Rome."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Early English Text Society ; no. 315
Uniform Title
Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 315.
Subject
  • Jehan de Vignay (c.1282-c.1340)
  • Jacques de Voragine (1228?-1298)
  • Lambeth palace (Londres)
  • British library > Manuscrits. Ms. Add. 11565
  • British library > Manuscrits. Ms. Add. 35298
  • Christian saints > Great Britain > Biography
  • Christian saints > Biography
  • Christian saints
  • Heiligen
  • Manuscrits anglais (moyen anglais) > Grande-Bretagne
  • Saints chrétiens > Grande-Bretagne > Ouvrages avant 1800
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
  • facsimiles (reproductions)
  • Facsimiles.
  • Biographies.
  • Fac-similés.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Text in English (Middle) with introductory material and annotations in English.
Contents
Includes glossary.
ISBN
  • 0197223184
  • 9780197223185
  • 0197223133
  • 9780197223130
LCCN
2001267909
OCLC
  • ocm45485039
  • 45485039
  • SCSB-1149482
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library