[Collection of lives of British Catholic saints], [1620s].

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16832598

Description

Title
[Collection of lives of British Catholic saints], [1620s].
Abstract

Manuscript on paper in good secretary hand containing saints' lives and related material, including a saints' days calendar and several prayers and hymns in Welsh. Opening with a selection of Welsh lives headed "Buchedh y Seintiau", the volume includes "Vita St. Dewi, archiepiscopi, authore Ricemarcho" (Rhygyfarch); "Vita St. Albani ex lingua Anglica in Latinam translata, per Gulielmum Albanensem Monachum, qui claruit Anno 1170"; and several other lives in Latin and English

The most extensive text in the volume is a lengthy English translation of Robert of Shrewsbury's life of St. Winifred, attributed to "Mr. Edward Morgan of Bechfield, a supposed catholique Prieste", who may well have been the Rev. Edward Morgan executed at Tyburn in 1642

A selection of extracts from John Wilson's English Martyrologe (1608) concludes with "Certayne Additions in the late Englishe Martyrs, which came to the Authors knowledge after the printing of the former catalogue."

Description
Texts in English, Latin and Welsh.
"Vita St. Dewi" colophon identifies the scribe as "Gulielmus Farrarus pbr."
"P: Legh" written on blank verso preceding the "Table."
Binding: Contemporary decorated calf, spine full-gilt, remains of label on spine.
Provenance
Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection Fund, 1998.
Extent
1 29 x 19 cm. v. (ca. 260 p., with blanks) ;
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Osborn fb229

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Biography
Resource Type
unspecified
Subject (Geographic)
England.
Wales.
Subject (Name)
David, Saint, active 6th century.
Farrar, William.
Leigh, Philip.
Morgan, Edward, d. 1642.
Rhygyfarch, 956-1099.
Robert of Shrewsbury, d. 1167.
Wilson, John, approximately 1575-approximately 1645?.
Winifred, Saint.
Subject (Topic)
Catholics
Christian saints
Subjects
David, Saint, active 6th century
Farrar, William
Leigh, Philip
Morgan, Edward, d. 1642
Rhygyfarch, 956-1099
Robert of Shrewsbury, d. 1167
Wilson, John, approximately 1575-approximately 1645?.
Winifred, Saint
Catholics > England
Catholics > Wales
Christian saints > Biography

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Citation
Collection of Lives of British Catholic Saints. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Catalog Record
7041801
Object ID (OID)
16832598

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