Supplementary Lives in Some Manuscripts of the Gilte Legende

by Hamer, Richard; Russell, Vida

• ISBN13: 9780197223185
• ISBN10: 0197223184
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Early English Text Society

Summary

Gilte Legende is mostly a close translation "drawen out of Frensshe into Englisshe" in 1438, of Jean de Vignay's Legende Doree of about 1333-40, itself a close translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea, completed about 1267. Of its eight surviving manuscripts, three contain additions, mostly of Lives of saints from or related to Britain, many of them deversified from the South English Legendary, but with some use of other sources. The twenty-six lives include Thomas Becket, Edmund of Abingdon, Frideswide, Edward the Confessor, Erkenwald, Augustine of Canterbury, Brendan, and Winifred. Also edited are an incomplete tract on "What the church betokenith," explaining some of the symbolism of the church and its services; and another detailing what indulgences were available to pilgrims in each of the churches in Rome.

Table of Contents

Plates
British Library MS Add. 11565, f. 56r
British Library MS Add. 35298, f. 80r	xx
reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the British Library
Lambeth Palace Library, MS 72, f. 202r	xxii
reproduced by permission of the Trustees of Lambeth Palace Library
Abbreviations and Sigla	ix
Introduction	xiii
The texts	xiii
The Manuscripts	xxi
Language	xxvi
Bibliography	xxvii
Editorial Method	xxxiii
TEXTS
St Edward the Confessor	1	(38)
St Winifred	39	(6)
St Erkenwald	45	(28)
Pardon of all the churches in Rome	73	(12)
What the church betokeneth	85	(44)
St Edmund of Abingdon	129	(12)
St Bride	141	(6)
St Edmund king and martyr	147	(4)
St Frideswide	151	(6)
St Edward king and martyr	157	(6)
St Alphege	163	(6)
St Augustine of Canterbury 1	169	(4)
St Oswald	173	(6)
St Dunstan	179	(6)
St Aldhelm	185	(4)
St Theophile	189	(10)
St Swithun	199	(6)
St Kenelm	205	(8)
St Chad	213	(4)
St Cuthbert	217	(6)
St Faith	223	(4)
St Dorothy 1	227	(6)
St Dorothy 2	233	(8)
St Dorothy 3	241	(10)
St Leger	251	(4)
St Brendan	255	(18)
St Michael	273	(10)
St Thomas of Canterbury	283	(38)
St Jerome	321	(46)
St Augustine of Canterbury 2	367	(14)
St Barbara	381	(90)
Notes	471	(52)
Select Glossary	523	(32)
Index of Proper Names	555	(10)
Index of Biblical Quotations and References	565