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De Translatione vel Elevatione sanctarum virginum Ethelburgae Hildelithae ac Wlfildae
Textus translationis sanctarum virginum Aethelburgae, Hildelithae ac Wlfildae

Century: 11

Hagiography

Latin

England

INCIPIT

1) proloog: Post conditum mundum et omnem ornatum terrae.. Hinc ergo dies solennes decentissime celebramus...-- corpus: De Alviva abbatissa. Adolescebat in monasterio infantula...-- 2) proloog: Diem solennem decentissimae celebremus uirginalis matris Aethelburgae suarumque uirginalium consortum...-- corpus: Iam deuota mater monasterii nouum templum...

EXPLICIT

1) ...pretiosa monilia suis gemmis instellari.-- 2) ...aeternae incorruptionis seculum et infinitum resurrectionis gaudium.

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: / - Date:after 1066 (Barlow) - Commission: /

SIZE

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Translation of the relics of St Ethelburga (deceased between 664 and 678), St. Hildelitha (+ after 708) and St Vulfilda (+after 996, c. 1003), abbesses of Barking, in 1086/7, by abbess Alviva. The text is preserved in a long (1) and a short (2) recensio.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Dublin, Trinity College, 176

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

COLKER (M.L.), 'Texts of Jocelyn of Canterbury which relate to the history of Barking Abbey', Studia Monastica, 7 (1965) 435-452
ESPOSITO (M.), 'Analecta varia', Hermathena, 36 (1910) 89-90 (fragment)

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 Suppl. 2630d-e
Bibliotheca Sanctorum, 12 1360-1361
Bibliotheca sanctorum, 5 (1964) 118 769 1360-1361
Bibliotheca Sanctorum, 7 (Roma, 1961) 769 1360-1361
HAMILTON (T.J.), Goscelin of Canterbury: A Critical Study of his Life, Works and Accomplishments, Ph.D. diss. (University of Virginia, 1973)

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Contributor:
Bea Blokhuis

Update:
2014-03-06 17:03:19