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Historia translationis sancti Augustini

Century: 11-12

Hagiography

Latin

England

INCIPIT

Prologus: (ad.) Dux Anselme patrum, pater et vigor ecclesiarum, quem celebrat titulis Romanus et Anglicus Orbis, ne spernas imi pronum munus Gocelini.-- (pr.) In arce sapientiae ad mensam coelestis philosophiae, ecclesiastice princeps, principaliter praesidenti ferculum tibi aureum afferre gliscit cor meum, non mei studii, sed Augustini...-- Corpus: Post antiqua evangelici protoparentis Anglorum Augustini solennia, coelo triumphata, quae nuper egimus; laude festiva nova nobis oritur gloria, nova laetitia...

EXPLICIT

...cum eis mereamur sempiterne gaudere, et redemptorem nostrum, regnantem cum Patre et Spiritu sancto, per infinita secula semper collaudare. Amen.

Goscelinus Sancti Bertini

Sex: M- Bio: monk of Saint Bertin's, 1058 or shortly after he followed bishop Hereman of Wiltshire (+1078) to England and was presumably monk in the monastery of Sherborne, stayed in several other monasteries (e.g.abbey of Canterbury), probably chaplain of the nuns of Wilton; +after 1106 (see Liebermann).-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)

EDITING

Location:Abbey of Canterbury - Date:after 1099 (Barlow 1992) - Commission:dedicated to Anselm of Canterbury

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CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Narrates the translation of St Augustine in Canterbury in September 1091 and the simultaneous translation of several other saints buried in the same ground, including St Ethelbertus (BHL 2622) and St Letardus (BHL 4892). Cfr. also Vita sancti Laurentii, Vita et miracula sancti Melliti, Vita sancti Iusti, Vita sancti Honorii, Vita sancti Deusdedit, Vita sancti Theodori and Vita, translatio et miracula Adriani.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

London, British Library, Cotton mss., Vespasianus B XX
London, British Library, Harley mss., 105

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti, VI (Parijs, 1668) 743-765 (fragment)
Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti, VI (Venetië, 1738, 2e druk) 741-762 (fragment) (Link) (Link)
Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, Mai., VI (1688) 411-430, 432-443 (Link)
Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, Mai., VI (1866, 3e druk) 408-426, 428-439 (Link)
MIGNE (J.-P.), Patrologia Latina CLV (1854) 13-46 (fragment) (Link) (Link) (Link)

LITERATURE

BARLOW (F.), The Life of King Edward who rests at Westminster attributed to a monk of Saint Bertin, Oxford Medieval Texts (Oxford, 1992 2de druk) 133-147
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 781
Bibliotheca Sanctorum, 1 (Roma, 1962) 426-427
HAMILTON (T.J.), Goscelin of Canterbury: A Critical Study of his Life, Works and Accomplishments, Ph.D. diss. (University of Virginia, 1973)
HARDY (T.D.), Descriptive Catalogue of materials relating to the history of Great Britain and Ireland, 1, Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, 26 (Londen, 1862) nr. 540
LIEBERMANN (F.), 'Raginald von Canterbury', in: Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde 13 (1888) 522-23, 542 e.v
MICHIELS (G.), 'Gauzelin de S.-Bertin', in: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 20 (Parijs, 1984) 127
TOWNSEND (D.), 'Omissions, Emissions, Missionaries and the Master Signifers in Norman Canterbury', in Exemplaria, 7 (1995) 291-315
VAN HOUTS (E.), 'The Norman Conquest Through European Eyes', in: English Historical Review, 110 (1995) 832-853

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Contributor:
Bea Blokhuis

Update:
2014-03-06 16:02:31