LA LEGENDE DORÉE: the French version of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, made by Jean de Vignay, circ. 1340, including the additional Lives given by De Vignay for which there is no original in Jacobus. There are in all 236 narratives, including those which refer to Festivals as well as the Lives of the Saints. Begins, without title, with the rubric "Cy comence le prologue de lacteur de ce liure," etc., which introduces the translator's preface, beg. "Monseigneur saint iherome." The ...
Vol. II. ff. 282. Late xvth cent. Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa: Legenda Aurea: late 15th cent.: Fr. transl. by Jean de Vignay. Jean de Vignay: Translation of the Legenda Aurea: late 15th cent.: Fr.
"VITA beati Thomæ arehiepiscopi et martiris": the Quadrilogus, or compilation by E[lias?] of Evesham, from the four Lives by John of Salisbury, Herbert of Boseham, William of Canterbury, and Alan, Abbot of Tewkesbury. The prologue begins "Post summi favoris dote vestitos," and the Life itself "T...
"THE LIVES Of Women Saints of our Contrie of England; also some other lives of holie women written by some of the auncient ffathers." A compilation of the early 17th century, including the following Lives, for some of which the sources are quoted: — SS. Helena (from Baronius). f. 21b; — Ursula (...
"CHRONOLOGIA tum Sacra tum profana et Romana," from Sulpicius Severus, Justinus, Cornelius Nepos, Florus, Paterculus, etc. It begins with the Creation, and was intended to be carried down to the death of Augustus, but actually ends in B.C. 354, which is given as A.M. 5098, O1. cvi. 3, and A.U.C....
"LIBER Abbathiæ de Hyde juxta Winton": a chronicle of the affairs of England, from the settlement of the Saxons to the reign of Cnut, with copies of charters, etc., relating to Newminster, afterwards Hyde Abbey, Winchester, where the work was compiled. Printed in the Rolls Series, 1866 (ed. Edw....
"EXPLANATIO Testamenti Regis Alfredi," and other writings relating to Hyde Abbey, Winchester, in Latin and English, copied "ex libro Abbatiæ de Hyda," sc. from Stowe 58, ff. 23 b-47 b, 53-68. All the documents are included in the Rolls Series edition of the Liber Monasterii de Hyda, 1866. Paper;...