This item contains a 14th-century copy of an apocryphal text, entitled 'Vita Protoplasti nostri Ade, et Eve uxoris sue, fabulosissima' in this manuscript. Decoration: 1 large initial in blue and red (f. 68r).
Vita Venerabilis Bedae (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069)
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This item contains prose life of Bede (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069), copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century. The preface begins 'Inter catholicos sacrae Scripturae expositores...' Decoration: 2 coloured initials (f. 28r-v).
Anonymous Vita Ædwardi Regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2421)
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This item contains the sole surviving copy of the Vita Ædwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor (b. c 1003, d. 1066) written by an anonymous author with sections in prose and verse. The text is imperfect, possibly missing two folios each from the first and last quire. Decoration: Painted initial...
Bede, Vita Cuthberti Metrica (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020)
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This work contains a late 9th century copy of Bede's verse Life of Cuthbert, written in the region which is now northern France. It was in England by the mid-10th century, given the Old English names inscribed in the margin and the Old English glosses in the text (see, for example, ff. 2r, 15r)....
Fragment of Ailred of Rievaulx's Vita S Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2423) and the papal commissioners' report on the sanctity of Bishop Hugh of Lincoln (imperfect)
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This manuscript contains the last page of a copy of Ailred of Rievaulx's Vita S Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2423) (f. 58*r). It is followed by an imperfect copy of the papal commissioners' report on the sanctity of Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, which an early modern ...
