Supplementary Lives in Some Manuscripts of the Gilte Legende

by Richard Hamer (Editor), Vida Russell (Editor)

Overview

Gilte Legende is mostly a close translation "drawen out of Frensshe into Englisshe" in 1438, of Jean de Vignay's Légende Dorée 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780197223185
Publisher:	Early English Text Society
Publication date:	03/01/2001
Series:	Early English Text Society Original Series , #315
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

Christ Church, Oxford

University of Adelaide (Retired)

Editorial Reviews

"Both [this edition and Zettersten, The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (OUP 2000)] are meticulously executed and handsomely produced. As the more compendious of the two, Hamer and Russell's edition deserves added praise for its exemplary scholarship, even by the standards of this distinguished series."—Manuscripta

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