Supp Lives MS Gilte Leg Eetso: C 315 C

ISBN-13: 9780197223185 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 614 str.

R. F. S. Hamer; V. D. Russell; Richard Hamer

Opis

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

Recenzje

The accessibility of the edition is greatly aided by the inclusion of a glossary of obsolete words, and indexes of proper names and biblical quotations. Particularly helpful is the editors' decision to preface each text with a brief digest of the unelaborated saint's life (allowing the reader to weed out the embellishments and solecisms of the Gilte Legende renderning).