A composite miscellany of hagiographic, devotional, and prophetic texts in Latin.
Scope & Content:
A composite miscellany containing five parts with hagiographic, devotional and prophetic texts in Latin, probably brought together in the library of Sir Robert Cotton. The miscellany contains one of the three extant copies of the canonisation dossier of Gilbert of Sempringham (d. 1190), founder ...
ff. 1r-23r: De Expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum, excerpted from Ralph of Coggeshall's Chronicon Anglicanum. Decoration: Large initials in red.
ff. 24r-31v: Vita sancti Edmundi archiepiscopi Cantuarensis, 'Beatus eadmundus cantuariensis archiepiscopus' (imperfect); the text contains parts from a vita that is attributed to Eustace of Faversham (fl. c. 1250), prior of the Benedictine priory of St Mary the Virgin and St Martin in Dover, in...
ff. 33r-167r: Canonization dossier of Gilbert of Sempringham: a vita followed by letters of the bishops of Norwich, Winchester and elsewhere relating to lay brethren of the order of Sempringham, the Ordo of Gilbert's canonization, an account of his translation, letters concerning his canonizatio...