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Lansdowne MS 436, ff 6-131

Record Id:

041-002075169

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002075167

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001358.0x0000e5

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Lansdowne MS 436, ff 6-131

Title:

The ‘Romsey Legendary’

Scope & Content:

A collection of British saints’ lives:

ff. 6r–9v: Augustine of Canterbury (begins imperfectly).

ff. 9v–11v: Laurentius of Canterbury.

ff. 11v–14r: Mellitus of Canterbury.

ff. 14r–16v: Paulinus of York.

ff. 16v–19v: Oswald of Northumbria.

ff. 19v–21v: Aidan of Lindisfarne.

ff. 21v–23v: Chad of Northumbria.

ff. 23v–27r: Wulfhad and Ruffin of Stone.

ff. 27r–29r: Werburgh of Chester.

ff. 29r–30r: Osgyth of Essex.

ff. 30r–31v: Birinus of Dorchester.

ff. 32r–34v: Edmund the Martyr.

ff. 34v–36v: Æthelthryth of East Anglia and her sisters Seaxburgh, Wihtburh, and Æthelburh.

ff. 36v–38v: Erkenwald of London.

ff. 38v–41v: Cuthbert of Northumbria.

ff. 41v–43v: Edburga of Winchester.

ff. 43v–45v: Elfleda and Merwinna of Romsey.

ff. 45v–48v: Edward of Wessex.

ff. 48v–50v: Wulfsige of Sherborne.

ff. 50v–55v: Ælfheah of Canterbury.

ff. 55v–59v: Wulfstan of Worcester.

ff. 59v–68r: Dunstan of Canterbury.

ff. 68r–72r: Hugh of Lincoln.

ff. 72v–76r: Milburga of Much Wenlock.

ff. 76r–81r: Oswald of Worcester.

ff. 81r–85v: Æthelwold of Winchester.

ff. 86r–88r: Odo of Canterbury.

ff. 88r–91r: Kenhelm of Mercia.

ff. 91r–95r: Swithun of Winchester.

ff. 95r–98v: Wilfrid of York.

ff. 98v–101r: John de Beverley of York.

ff. 101r–104r: Frideswide of Oxford.

ff. 104r–105v: Rumwold of Buckingham.

ff. 105v–107r: Hilda of Whitby.

ff. 107r–109r: Winifred of Wales/Shrewsbury.

ff. 109r–111v: Eafe of Minster–in–Thanet.

ff. 111v–113r: Beornstan of Winchester.

ff. 113r–114r: Ælfheah of Winchester.

ff. 114r–116r: Cedd of Northumbria.

ff. 116r–121v: Robert of Newminster.

ff. 121v–126v: Godric of Finchale.

ff. 126v–131v: Modwenna of Burton.

f. 131v: Wulfric of Haselbury.

The table of contents lists several further sections, now missing due to the loss of one or two gatherings: Aldhelm of Sherborne, Patrick of Ireland, Guthlac of Crowland, Adelbert of Egmond.

Decoration:

Large puzzle initials in blue and red with red and purple or blue foliate penwork decoration and pen-flourishing extending to form a one-sided border. Large initials in red with purple penwork decoration, often with foliate forms, and in blue with red penwork decoration. Paraphs in red. Highlighting of initials in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Lansdowne Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002060013
040-002075167
041-002075169

Is part of:

Lansdowne MS 1-1245 : Lansdowne Manuscripts
Lansdowne MS 436 : Chronicle and British saints’ lives

Lansdowne MS 436, ff 6-131 : The ‘Romsey Legendary’

Hierarchy:

032-002060013[0301]/040-002075167[0002]/041-002075169

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Lansdowne MS 1-1245

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1349

Date Range:

1st half of the 14th century

Era:

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Publications:

Paul Grosjean, ‘Vita S. Roberti novi monasterii in Anglia abbatis’, Analecta Bollandiana, 56(1938), 334–60, https://doi.org/10.1484/J.ABOL.4.00814 (manuscript description at pp. 335–39, based on notes of Francis Wormald).

'The Liber Confortatorius of Goscelin of Saint Bertin', ed. by C. H. Talbot, in M. M. Lebreton, J. Leclercq, C. H. Talbot, Analecta Monastica: Textes et études sur la vie des moines au moyen age, 3rd series, Studia Anselmiana, 37 (Rome: Herder, 1955), pp. 1–117 (pp. 13 n. 73, 21 n. 102).

Felix's Life of Saint Guthlac, ed. by Bertram Colgrave (Cambridge: University Press, 1956), p. 45.

Nigel Morgan, 'Notes on the Post-Conquest Calendar, Litany and Martyrology of the Cathedral Priory of Winchester with a Consideration of Winchester Diocese Calendars of the Pre-Sarum period', in The Vanishing Past: Medieval Studies Presented to Chrisopher Hohler, ed. by Alan Borg and Andrew Martindale (Oxford: B. A. R., 1981), pp. 133-174 (pp. 164 n. 52, 165 n. 57, 168 n. 88).

Francis Wormald, Collected Writings, ed. by J. J. G. Alexander, T. J. Brown, and Joan Gibbs, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1984-1988), II: Studies in English and Continental Art of the Later Middle Ages, p. 43.

Three Eleventh-Century Anglo-Latin Saints’ Lives: Vita S. Birini, Vita et miracula S. Kenelmi and Vita S. Rumwoldi, ed. and trans. by Rosalind C. Love (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), p. lxxxii.

Mediaeval Latin Texts and Their Transmission, ed. by Paolo Chiesa and Lucia Castaldi (Florence: SISMEL, 2004), p. 443.

Stephanie Hollis, ‘The Literary Culture of the Anglo‑Saxon Royal Nunneries: Romsey and London, British Library, MS Lansdowne 436’, in Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue, ed. by Virginia Blanton, Veronica O’Mara, and Patricia Stoop, Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 26 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 169–83, https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MWTC.1.101525.

James Gregory, ‘The Life of St. Winifred: The Vita S. Wenefrede from BL Lansdowne MS 436’, Medieval Feminist Forum, 51.3 (2015), 1–57, http://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/vol51/iss3/1.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)