Ex autographo
Lelandino
nunc Angliae.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1
' His works were published at Paris in folio, A.
D.
165 1, and the editor was the learned Dom.
Luke d'Achery.
^ Guibert died August ist, in 1124.
^' Ailred,^' who is also called Ethelred,^^ Allread, or Ealred/* was abbot of Revesby, in Lincolnshire-^^ Ailred left varioushistorical,hagiographicalandtheologicaltractsbehindhim.
^^ Some Among other learned treatises, one deno-
of Durham, who wrote the Acts of St. Brigid. 9'
St. Anthony of Padua was born at Lisbon, in 1195. He belonged to the religious orders of St. Augustine and of St. Francis. He has left us " Sermones de Sanctis," and an edition of his works was published in 1641, byFatherJeanoftheHague. 9^ St. AnthonydiedatPaduain1231,93being only thirty-six years old. The elegant and seraphic writer, St. Bonaventure, was born at Bagnarea, in Tuscany, a. d. 1221. He wrote " Opus Sermonum
"
de Tempore et Sanctis,"'^ as also Histcrie Plurimorum Sanctorum ex
of his works are yet unprinted. ^7
was
in 1631. ^9 Ailred died a. d. 1166. S0 In this century, also lived Laurence
minated,
Tempore
et de
Sanctis,"
published
at
Douay^^
Ixxxviii. , pp. 199, 200, lib. xxxix. , section i. , p. 275, lib. xli. , section xvii. , p. 318, section Ixix. , pp. 339, 340.
75 See remarks regarding this writer and
"
De lUustribus Anglia; Scrip- toribus," tomus i. , pars, ii. , pp. 229 to 231. *5 He is classed as a saint in the Calendar,
at the 1 2th of January. See R. Chambers'
" Book of vol. i. , Days," p. 97.
** "
See Cave's Scriptorum Ecclesiasti-
corum Historia Literaria," tom. i. , p. 672.
his works in Bellarmin, " De
quoted as,
9' For life and writings of Laurence of Durham see John Leland's "Commentarii De Scriptoribus Britannicis," tomus i. , cap. clxxlv. , pp. 204, 205.
9^ See Watts' "Bibliotheca Britannica," Historite Anglicas Scriptores X. " vol. i. , p. 36, f. g.
versal Biography," vol. iii. , p. 750.
^^ "
See Biimet's ilanuel du Libraire,"
tome ii. , col. 1803.
*' See Cardinal Bellarmin, " De Scrip-
toribus Ecclesiasticis," p. 369. ^* "
London,1652.
*3 See Leland's " Commentarii de Scrip-
toribus Britannicis," cap. 169.
^* See John Pitts' " Relationum Histori-
carum de Rebus Anglicis," ^more usually
"See Chambers's "Encyclopedia, a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People," vol. i. , p. 305.
'"•This appeared in folio, A. D. 1479, at Swollis, but without the printei"'s name. See
'*7 See George L. Craik's
Compendious
Ixxvi INTRODUCTION.
diversis libris in unum collecte,"95 and these are to be found in his collected works. 9^ He died, July isth, a. d. 1274. 97 Barthelemy of Trent, an Italian
writer, lived during this century likewise, and he was one of the first authors, who endeavoured to place in a regular series the acts of the saints. Jacobus de Voragine, who was born about a. d. 1230, and who became Provincial of the Dominicans and Bishop of Genoa—the native city of Columbus—gave
St. Brendan's land a special prominence in the thirteenth century, by writing his"LegendaAurea"9^orthe"GoldenLegend. " Variouseditionsofthis work, which ordered the saints' acts according to cycles of the ecclesiastical year, issued from the press, soon after the introduction of the printing art. " It was one of the first and most popular collections of saint's lives or legends then placed before the reading public. '*' An English version appeared of the ** Golden Legend ; wherein ben conteyned all the hygh and grete Festys of oure Blessyd Lady ; the Lyves, Passyons, and Myracles of many other Sayntes. " It was printed'"' in a folio volume, at London, a. d. 1503. '°'
The Subtile Doctor, Joannes Duns Scotus,'°3 who fiourished in the early part of the fourteenth century,'°* is said by Trithemius to have composed some sermons on the saints. '°5 xhe distinguished Luke Wadding published the life and works of this celebrated Avriter, at Lyons, a. d. 1639, and in twelve volumes.
Watts' "Bibliotheca Britannica," vol. iv.
p. 131.
95 This appeared at Louvain, in folio,
A. D. 1489. See Ibid.
9* By order of Pope Sixtus V. , an edition
prope sanctum Benedictum. " It is a blade letter 410, printed in double columns, but it
has no date of impression. However, en the back, in modern binding, there is an
inscription, Legenda Aurea, 1505. The
of his works, in eight volumes, was pub- Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis," pp. 448, 449.
"
9' See Rev. Alban Butler's
Fathers, Martyrs, and other Principal Saints," vol. vii. , at the 14th of July.
only special Acts of Irish Saints in this lished at Rome. See Bellarmin, " De volume are. Vita S. Patricii, p. xlix. , and
Lives of the
De undecim milibus virginura, pp. clviL, clviii.
'°° A folio Italian translation of this work appeared at Milan, A. D. 1519. The trans- lator was the Venerable Messer Don Nicolas
9^ Tiraboschi say. -, that at each festival, it
contains a coronal of poetic traditions. See de Maneibi de 1 ordine de Camalciulense,
*'
Storia della Letterati^. ra Italiana," tomo iv. , lib. ii. , cap. i. , § xxxviii. , pp. 140, 141. Ed. Roma, 1782, et seq. , 4to.
99 The edition which I have used bears
Abbate del Monasterio de Sco Mathia de murano.
"" By Julian Notary.
'" See Watts' "Bibliotheca Britannica,"
vol. ii. , p. 711, y.
'°3 Some notices of him will be found in
the following title :
"
Legenda hasc Aurea
nitidis excutitur formis claretque plurimum
"
perperam adhibitum semotumve : quod ad book i. , chap, xxii. , p. 701. London :
censoria adeo ut nihil
vol.
1864. 8vo. The Scotch and Irish dispute
about his birth-place.
'°* A fine edition o( his " Sententiarum
Quajstiones Subtilissimae," edited by Father Hugo Cavellus of Louvain, is published in two large folio volumes, at Antwerp, A. D,
castigatione : usque
Henry Morley's
English Writers,"
i. ,
rem potissimum pertinere non videant offendi possit. " This inscription is over a wood-
engraving, representing the trade-sign of the bookseller Huguetan. Immediately under the woodcut we find, Venumdantur
Lugduni ab Jacobo Huguetano ejusdem
civiiatis bibliopola in vico mercuriali : ad 1620.
in ararim ducit. Et Par- bibiis in vico sancti Jacobi sub diva vii^ine
'°s See Harris' vol. " Writers Ware, iii. ,
of Ireland," chapter xi,, p. 8a
augriportam qui
A native of in Ashperton,
INTRODUCTION.
Ixxvn
'"'^
of Exeter, wrote a book, " De Vitis Sanctorum,"'°7 besides other works. He
***^
Petrus de Natahbus, who flourished towards the close of the fourteenth
Vicenza,a. d. 1493. '" Anothersmallfolioedition,indoublecolumnsand
in contracted Latin, with many rude wood-cuts, was published at Lyons, in the year 15 14. A French translation of this work issued at Paris, in 1523
and1524. "* JohnCapgrave,whowasborna. d. 1393,compiledthe"Nova Legenda Anglise," in which work he included the acts of various Irish Saints. This was published at London, a. d. 15 16, in a fine black letter edition, without title on first page, but on both sides of first leaf there are old rude woodengravings. "3 TheseareintendedtorepresenttheThreePersonsof the Most Holy Trinity, with the Church triumphant in heaven, on the upper part, while beneaih them are representations of different holy men and women of all known orders in the Church militant. "* After the manner of old printed books, this volume is only numbered on alternate pages. The lives of the saints are given in alphabetical order, and in contracted Latin. "5 He also wrote an
Herefordshire,
John Grandison, Bishop
died the 15th of July, a. d. 1369, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, His works are noticed by John Pitts. '°9
and it bears on the " Sancto- title-page, Catalogus
"o wrote a
rum et Gestorum eorum ex Diversis Voluminibus Collectus," editus a Reve- rendissimo in Christo Patre Domino Petro de Natalibus de Venetiis, Dei GratiaEpiscopo^quilino. Thefirstfolioeditionofthisworkappearedat
century,
work,
interesting 1 2 th of August, 1464.
'• Chronicle of He died on the England. ""^
'°* See Thomas Fuller's "
of the
"3 A of the work here described copy
History
Worthies of England," vol. i. , p. 450. belongs to Trinity College Library, Dublin.
John Nichols' London edition, A. D. 181 1, It has the foregoing information supplied
4to. in writing on the title-page, and on the first "*' See " Commentarii de Scriptoribus page of the prologue. On the back, this Britannicis," auctore Joanne Lelando Lon- particular volume is lettered, "Legenda
dinate.
Ex autographo Lelandino nunc Angliae. Wynkyn de Worde. Anno Dom.
primus edidit Antonius Hall, A, M. Coll.
Reg. Oxon. Socius. Tomus i. , cap. xcii. , p. 126.
'°* See Bishop Tanner's " Bibliotheca
Britannico-Hibemica,"pp. 338, 339.
"9 See " Relationum Historicarum de
M. ccccc. xvi. B. dd. 35. "
" The engravings on both sides of the
first page are fac-similes. A similar en- graving is found at the end.
"5 As in all very old printed books, the title is to be met with on the last page. In the
Rebus Anglicis," tomus i. , pars, ii. , pp. present instance, it runs : 503. 504.
"° See Cardinal Bellarmin, "De Scrip- toribus Ecclesiasticis," p. 501.
"' See Brunei's " Manuel du Libraire,"
tome iv. . col. 18.
'" "
Two volumes in folio, intituled, Le lects: merito dicuntur novae: quia licet
Grand Catholique des Saintcz et sainctes
nouuel'ement translate de Latin (de I'ierre
des Natalies) en francoys (par Guy Bres- lay). " See ibid.
quiedam de istis etiam reperiuntur apud
"
Explicit (Nova Legenda Angliae) Impressa Londonias in domo Winandi de Worde : commoratus ad
signum solis : in vico nuncupate (the flete strete). Anno dni. M. CCCCC. XVI. , xxvii die Februarii. Itaque omnes hystoria; hie col-
: non tamen ita emendatae et correctse sicut in hoc volumen ccntinentur. "
"*This work, edited by Rev. Francis
plures
An Italian " Vite de' Santi work,
of Caxton's "
Lyves
of the Fathers. " Boninus Mombritius or Membrizio, a
"
INTR on UCTION.
at
About A. D. 1470, a small folio appeared at Cologne; it was styled, "Vitae
Sanctorum Patrum. " It was printed by Ulric Zell. This was the original
Padri," appeared
Venice,
in
i448. "7
native of Milan, wrote Sanctuarivm, sive Vitse Sanctorum. " This col-
lection was published in two folio volumes, double columns, without date
or place; yet, it is thought to have been printed at Milan in 1477, 1479.
This is a work of unccmmon rarity. "^ An old printed collection appeared
at Louvain, a. d. 1485. It is in a black letter, and in contracted Latin, with
"
Hystorie plurimorum Sanctorum noviter et laboriose ex di-
the title :
versis libris in unum collecte. ""? This 4to volume has alternate pages numbered, but only to the figure cccv. The two first folios contain an alphabetical list of the saints' names, with reference to those pages, at which the commencement of their acts may be found. These appear to have been printed from MSS. , and they are unaccompanied by note or comment The name of editor or compiler is not given.
"
Tempore et de Sanctis per Circulum anni cum Prcmptuario Exemplo-
John Herolt, commonly called Discipulus, wrote a work,
Sermones de
rum. "'^"> He also " Sermones de produced,
cum
rum. ""* In the beginning of the sixteenth century, Richard Whytford or Whitford flourished. He was a native of Flintshire, and he was educated at Oxford. He became a monk of the order of St. Bridget, at Sion, of Middlesex,"* and he appears to have been chiefly employed as a translator
of works original
deWorde. From" secundum Martyrologium
by Wynkyn
usum Ecclesise Sarisburiensis," he compiled "The Martilogein Englysshe, after Vse of the Chyrche of Salisbury, and as it is redde in Syon, with Addicyons. ""3 The translator added feasts to this Martyrology, at the
various days. Bale says, that he flourished a. d. 1520,"* and he is followed
Charles Hingeston, was published by the
Master of the Rolls. London, 1858. 8vo.
Biographical notices of the author are pre-
fixed to this volume, under the heading- at London, A. D. 1510,410; at Paris, a. d.
'*
Introduction," pp. ix. to xxix.
"7 Another edition of it was printed at
1513, 8vo, and at Nuremturg, A. D. 1514, fol. "' This appeared at Mng. ad. 1612, in 4to. See Watts' "Bibliotheca Britannica,"
vol. i. , p. 489, c.
"'See Bi. shop Tanner's "Bibliotheca
Britannico-Hibernica," p. 765.
"3 It was printed at Lpndon, A. D. 1526,
in 4to. See Watts' "Bibliotheca Britan-
nica," vol. ii. , p. 965, b. c, and p. 582 v.
"* "
See Scriptorum lllustrium Majoris
Brytanioe quam nunc Angliam et Scotiam
vocant, Catalogus, a Japhetoper36i8annos, usque ad annum hunc Domini 1557. " Cen-
tuaria Nona, § . \v. , p. 709.
Firenze, ill 1758.
"* See Brunet's " Manuel du Libraire,"
tome iii. , col. 181S, 1819.
"9 To this title areai)pended the remarks,
that all these collected histories are properly termed ne»v, even though some of them might be found in other collections; how- ever, they were not so amended and pro- longed as in the present work. This would be specially apparent in the Legends of Saints Frederic, bishop, Gurinus, Gangulph, Oswald, Kilian, Aflfre, Juliana, Pope
Sanctis,
Speculo exemplo-
Stephen, Alexander, and many others.
'^
viz. , at Arg. per Mar. Flach, A. D. 1499;
Various editions of this work appeared,
INTRODUCTION. Ixxix by John Pitts ;"5 but, it may be added, that he lived at least twenty years
"6
later.
Oliver Maillard, a. French Divine, wrote " Sermones de Sanctis. " These
were published at Paris, a. d. 1507, 1509,^7 and afterwards in 8vo size. Frater
"
tis, necnon Miracula. " These appeared at Hagen, a. d. 1515, 1516. "^
"
a work at
totius anni, tam de tempore quam de Sanctis, secundum ordinem Sarum. "
This is a folio volume. '^9 ]? orn in the year 1462, John of Trittenhem
became Abbot of Spanheim. He published many ascetic and historical
"
works. Among the latter are chiefly note-worthy, Catalogus lUustiura
Virorum Germaniam suis ingeniis et lucubrationibus omnifariam exornan-
" De Illustribus Viris Ordinis Sancti Benedicti and *' De ;"
"
of this work, intituled,
trium Virorum, cum Appendice eorum qui nostro etiam seculo doctissimi claruere. "'3i It contains some brief notices of a few among our earlier ecclesiastical writers. Leland complains of Trithemius having classed many English writers as Scoti. '32 This writer died on the 13th of De- cember, a. d. 1516. ^33
Thiery Martins, or Martens, or Theodore Martinus, an early and a most learned Flemish printer, was born at Alost, about a. d. 1450. He
began printing in the Netherlands, in 1473, and being a very distinguished philologist,'34 he was intimately acquainted with some of the most learned men in Louvain University. 'ss He wrote, "Hymni in Honorem Sancto- rura. "'36 Besides his own writings, beautiful editions of other works issued from his press. '37 He died at Alost, on the 28th of May, a. d.
Hungarus, of the Minorite Order, wrote
Biga Salutis, sive Sermones de Sanc-
Likewise, Wolfgang Hopyl printed
Paris, a. d. , 1518,
Legende
tium
ribus Ecclesiasticis. "'3o
Scripto- After his death appeared, a. d. 1531, a new edition
;"
''SSee " Relationum Historicarum de Re- bus Anglicis," tomus i. , pars, ii. , pp. 695, 696.
"* See "Athcnae Oxonenses," vol. i. ,
Britannicis," tomus i. , cap. xcii. , p. 126. '33 See Cardinal Bellarmin's "De Scrip*
toribus Ecclesiasticis," pp. 540 to 542. Venice edition, 1728.
'^4 See F. A. Van " Iseghem's Biogra-
phiedeThierryMartens. " This8vowork
appeared at Malines, a. d. 1852.
'35 See Mon. de Ram's "Considerations
sur I'Histoire de I'Universite de Louvain. " This dissertation appeared in "Bullentins de 1' Academic Royal de Belgique," tome xxi.
'3* Valere Andre attributes to his anthor- ship this work. See "Bibliotheca Belgica. " At present it seems to be unknown.
"' See Walts' " Bibliotheca Britannica,"
col. to
132 134.
See the edition of
1813.
London. 4to.
"7 See Brunei's "Manuel du Libraire,"
tome iii. , col. 1316.
»*® In two 4to volumes this work saw the
light.
'^See Watts' "Bibliotheca Britannica,"
vol. i. , pp. 513, o, and 526, 1. Also vol. ii. ,
p. 635, i.
'3° A collected edition of this writer's his-
torical works was issued at Frankfort, a.
of Durham, who wrote the Acts of St. Brigid. 9'
St. Anthony of Padua was born at Lisbon, in 1195. He belonged to the religious orders of St. Augustine and of St. Francis. He has left us " Sermones de Sanctis," and an edition of his works was published in 1641, byFatherJeanoftheHague. 9^ St. AnthonydiedatPaduain1231,93being only thirty-six years old. The elegant and seraphic writer, St. Bonaventure, was born at Bagnarea, in Tuscany, a. d. 1221. He wrote " Opus Sermonum
"
de Tempore et Sanctis,"'^ as also Histcrie Plurimorum Sanctorum ex
of his works are yet unprinted. ^7
was
in 1631. ^9 Ailred died a. d. 1166. S0 In this century, also lived Laurence
minated,
Tempore
et de
Sanctis,"
published
at
Douay^^
Ixxxviii. , pp. 199, 200, lib. xxxix. , section i. , p. 275, lib. xli. , section xvii. , p. 318, section Ixix. , pp. 339, 340.
75 See remarks regarding this writer and
"
De lUustribus Anglia; Scrip- toribus," tomus i. , pars, ii. , pp. 229 to 231. *5 He is classed as a saint in the Calendar,
at the 1 2th of January. See R. Chambers'
" Book of vol. i. , Days," p. 97.
** "
See Cave's Scriptorum Ecclesiasti-
corum Historia Literaria," tom. i. , p. 672.
his works in Bellarmin, " De
quoted as,
9' For life and writings of Laurence of Durham see John Leland's "Commentarii De Scriptoribus Britannicis," tomus i. , cap. clxxlv. , pp. 204, 205.
9^ See Watts' "Bibliotheca Britannica," Historite Anglicas Scriptores X. " vol. i. , p. 36, f. g.
versal Biography," vol. iii. , p. 750.
^^ "
See Biimet's ilanuel du Libraire,"
tome ii. , col. 1803.
*' See Cardinal Bellarmin, " De Scrip-
toribus Ecclesiasticis," p. 369. ^* "
London,1652.
*3 See Leland's " Commentarii de Scrip-
toribus Britannicis," cap. 169.
^* See John Pitts' " Relationum Histori-
carum de Rebus Anglicis," ^more usually
"See Chambers's "Encyclopedia, a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People," vol. i. , p. 305.
'"•This appeared in folio, A. D. 1479, at Swollis, but without the printei"'s name. See
'*7 See George L. Craik's
Compendious
Ixxvi INTRODUCTION.
diversis libris in unum collecte,"95 and these are to be found in his collected works. 9^ He died, July isth, a. d. 1274. 97 Barthelemy of Trent, an Italian
writer, lived during this century likewise, and he was one of the first authors, who endeavoured to place in a regular series the acts of the saints. Jacobus de Voragine, who was born about a. d. 1230, and who became Provincial of the Dominicans and Bishop of Genoa—the native city of Columbus—gave
St. Brendan's land a special prominence in the thirteenth century, by writing his"LegendaAurea"9^orthe"GoldenLegend. " Variouseditionsofthis work, which ordered the saints' acts according to cycles of the ecclesiastical year, issued from the press, soon after the introduction of the printing art. " It was one of the first and most popular collections of saint's lives or legends then placed before the reading public. '*' An English version appeared of the ** Golden Legend ; wherein ben conteyned all the hygh and grete Festys of oure Blessyd Lady ; the Lyves, Passyons, and Myracles of many other Sayntes. " It was printed'"' in a folio volume, at London, a. d. 1503. '°'
The Subtile Doctor, Joannes Duns Scotus,'°3 who fiourished in the early part of the fourteenth century,'°* is said by Trithemius to have composed some sermons on the saints. '°5 xhe distinguished Luke Wadding published the life and works of this celebrated Avriter, at Lyons, a. d. 1639, and in twelve volumes.
Watts' "Bibliotheca Britannica," vol. iv.
p. 131.
95 This appeared at Louvain, in folio,
A. D. 1489. See Ibid.
9* By order of Pope Sixtus V. , an edition
prope sanctum Benedictum. " It is a blade letter 410, printed in double columns, but it
has no date of impression. However, en the back, in modern binding, there is an
inscription, Legenda Aurea, 1505. The
of his works, in eight volumes, was pub- Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis," pp. 448, 449.
"
9' See Rev. Alban Butler's
Fathers, Martyrs, and other Principal Saints," vol. vii. , at the 14th of July.
only special Acts of Irish Saints in this lished at Rome. See Bellarmin, " De volume are. Vita S. Patricii, p. xlix. , and
Lives of the
De undecim milibus virginura, pp. clviL, clviii.
'°° A folio Italian translation of this work appeared at Milan, A. D. 1519. The trans- lator was the Venerable Messer Don Nicolas
9^ Tiraboschi say. -, that at each festival, it
contains a coronal of poetic traditions. See de Maneibi de 1 ordine de Camalciulense,
*'
Storia della Letterati^. ra Italiana," tomo iv. , lib. ii. , cap. i. , § xxxviii. , pp. 140, 141. Ed. Roma, 1782, et seq. , 4to.
99 The edition which I have used bears
Abbate del Monasterio de Sco Mathia de murano.
"" By Julian Notary.
'" See Watts' "Bibliotheca Britannica,"
vol. ii. , p. 711, y.
'°3 Some notices of him will be found in
the following title :
"
Legenda hasc Aurea
nitidis excutitur formis claretque plurimum
"
perperam adhibitum semotumve : quod ad book i. , chap, xxii. , p. 701. London :
censoria adeo ut nihil
vol.
1864. 8vo. The Scotch and Irish dispute
about his birth-place.
'°* A fine edition o( his " Sententiarum
Quajstiones Subtilissimae," edited by Father Hugo Cavellus of Louvain, is published in two large folio volumes, at Antwerp, A. D,
castigatione : usque
Henry Morley's
English Writers,"
i. ,
rem potissimum pertinere non videant offendi possit. " This inscription is over a wood-
engraving, representing the trade-sign of the bookseller Huguetan. Immediately under the woodcut we find, Venumdantur
Lugduni ab Jacobo Huguetano ejusdem
civiiatis bibliopola in vico mercuriali : ad 1620.
in ararim ducit. Et Par- bibiis in vico sancti Jacobi sub diva vii^ine
'°s See Harris' vol. " Writers Ware, iii. ,
of Ireland," chapter xi,, p. 8a
augriportam qui
A native of in Ashperton,
INTRODUCTION.
Ixxvn
'"'^
of Exeter, wrote a book, " De Vitis Sanctorum,"'°7 besides other works. He
***^
Petrus de Natahbus, who flourished towards the close of the fourteenth
Vicenza,a. d. 1493. '" Anothersmallfolioedition,indoublecolumnsand
in contracted Latin, with many rude wood-cuts, was published at Lyons, in the year 15 14. A French translation of this work issued at Paris, in 1523
and1524. "* JohnCapgrave,whowasborna. d. 1393,compiledthe"Nova Legenda Anglise," in which work he included the acts of various Irish Saints. This was published at London, a. d. 15 16, in a fine black letter edition, without title on first page, but on both sides of first leaf there are old rude woodengravings. "3 TheseareintendedtorepresenttheThreePersonsof the Most Holy Trinity, with the Church triumphant in heaven, on the upper part, while beneaih them are representations of different holy men and women of all known orders in the Church militant. "* After the manner of old printed books, this volume is only numbered on alternate pages. The lives of the saints are given in alphabetical order, and in contracted Latin. "5 He also wrote an
Herefordshire,
John Grandison, Bishop
died the 15th of July, a. d. 1369, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, His works are noticed by John Pitts. '°9
and it bears on the " Sancto- title-page, Catalogus
"o wrote a
rum et Gestorum eorum ex Diversis Voluminibus Collectus," editus a Reve- rendissimo in Christo Patre Domino Petro de Natalibus de Venetiis, Dei GratiaEpiscopo^quilino. Thefirstfolioeditionofthisworkappearedat
century,
work,
interesting 1 2 th of August, 1464.
'• Chronicle of He died on the England. ""^
'°* See Thomas Fuller's "
of the
"3 A of the work here described copy
History
Worthies of England," vol. i. , p. 450. belongs to Trinity College Library, Dublin.
John Nichols' London edition, A. D. 181 1, It has the foregoing information supplied
4to. in writing on the title-page, and on the first "*' See " Commentarii de Scriptoribus page of the prologue. On the back, this Britannicis," auctore Joanne Lelando Lon- particular volume is lettered, "Legenda
dinate.
Ex autographo Lelandino nunc Angliae. Wynkyn de Worde. Anno Dom.
primus edidit Antonius Hall, A, M. Coll.
Reg. Oxon. Socius. Tomus i. , cap. xcii. , p. 126.
'°* See Bishop Tanner's " Bibliotheca
Britannico-Hibemica,"pp. 338, 339.
"9 See " Relationum Historicarum de
M. ccccc. xvi. B. dd. 35. "
" The engravings on both sides of the
first page are fac-similes. A similar en- graving is found at the end.
"5 As in all very old printed books, the title is to be met with on the last page. In the
Rebus Anglicis," tomus i. , pars, ii. , pp. present instance, it runs : 503. 504.
"° See Cardinal Bellarmin, "De Scrip- toribus Ecclesiasticis," p. 501.
"' See Brunei's " Manuel du Libraire,"
tome iv. . col. 18.
'" "
Two volumes in folio, intituled, Le lects: merito dicuntur novae: quia licet
Grand Catholique des Saintcz et sainctes
nouuel'ement translate de Latin (de I'ierre
des Natalies) en francoys (par Guy Bres- lay). " See ibid.
quiedam de istis etiam reperiuntur apud
"
Explicit (Nova Legenda Angliae) Impressa Londonias in domo Winandi de Worde : commoratus ad
signum solis : in vico nuncupate (the flete strete). Anno dni. M. CCCCC. XVI. , xxvii die Februarii. Itaque omnes hystoria; hie col-
: non tamen ita emendatae et correctse sicut in hoc volumen ccntinentur. "
"*This work, edited by Rev. Francis
plures
An Italian " Vite de' Santi work,
of Caxton's "
Lyves
of the Fathers. " Boninus Mombritius or Membrizio, a
"
INTR on UCTION.
at
About A. D. 1470, a small folio appeared at Cologne; it was styled, "Vitae
Sanctorum Patrum. " It was printed by Ulric Zell. This was the original
Padri," appeared
Venice,
in
i448. "7
native of Milan, wrote Sanctuarivm, sive Vitse Sanctorum. " This col-
lection was published in two folio volumes, double columns, without date
or place; yet, it is thought to have been printed at Milan in 1477, 1479.
This is a work of unccmmon rarity. "^ An old printed collection appeared
at Louvain, a. d. 1485. It is in a black letter, and in contracted Latin, with
"
Hystorie plurimorum Sanctorum noviter et laboriose ex di-
the title :
versis libris in unum collecte. ""? This 4to volume has alternate pages numbered, but only to the figure cccv. The two first folios contain an alphabetical list of the saints' names, with reference to those pages, at which the commencement of their acts may be found. These appear to have been printed from MSS. , and they are unaccompanied by note or comment The name of editor or compiler is not given.
"
Tempore et de Sanctis per Circulum anni cum Prcmptuario Exemplo-
John Herolt, commonly called Discipulus, wrote a work,
Sermones de
rum. "'^"> He also " Sermones de produced,
cum
rum. ""* In the beginning of the sixteenth century, Richard Whytford or Whitford flourished. He was a native of Flintshire, and he was educated at Oxford. He became a monk of the order of St. Bridget, at Sion, of Middlesex,"* and he appears to have been chiefly employed as a translator
of works original
deWorde. From" secundum Martyrologium
by Wynkyn
usum Ecclesise Sarisburiensis," he compiled "The Martilogein Englysshe, after Vse of the Chyrche of Salisbury, and as it is redde in Syon, with Addicyons. ""3 The translator added feasts to this Martyrology, at the
various days. Bale says, that he flourished a. d. 1520,"* and he is followed
Charles Hingeston, was published by the
Master of the Rolls. London, 1858. 8vo.
Biographical notices of the author are pre-
fixed to this volume, under the heading- at London, A. D. 1510,410; at Paris, a. d.
'*
Introduction," pp. ix. to xxix.
"7 Another edition of it was printed at
1513, 8vo, and at Nuremturg, A. D. 1514, fol. "' This appeared at Mng. ad. 1612, in 4to. See Watts' "Bibliotheca Britannica,"
vol. i. , p. 489, c.
"'See Bi. shop Tanner's "Bibliotheca
Britannico-Hibernica," p. 765.
"3 It was printed at Lpndon, A. D. 1526,
in 4to. See Watts' "Bibliotheca Britan-
nica," vol. ii. , p. 965, b. c, and p. 582 v.
"* "
See Scriptorum lllustrium Majoris
Brytanioe quam nunc Angliam et Scotiam
vocant, Catalogus, a Japhetoper36i8annos, usque ad annum hunc Domini 1557. " Cen-
tuaria Nona, § . \v. , p. 709.
Firenze, ill 1758.
"* See Brunet's " Manuel du Libraire,"
tome iii. , col. 181S, 1819.
"9 To this title areai)pended the remarks,
that all these collected histories are properly termed ne»v, even though some of them might be found in other collections; how- ever, they were not so amended and pro- longed as in the present work. This would be specially apparent in the Legends of Saints Frederic, bishop, Gurinus, Gangulph, Oswald, Kilian, Aflfre, Juliana, Pope
Sanctis,
Speculo exemplo-
Stephen, Alexander, and many others.
'^
viz. , at Arg. per Mar. Flach, A. D. 1499;
Various editions of this work appeared,
INTRODUCTION. Ixxix by John Pitts ;"5 but, it may be added, that he lived at least twenty years
"6
later.
Oliver Maillard, a. French Divine, wrote " Sermones de Sanctis. " These
were published at Paris, a. d. 1507, 1509,^7 and afterwards in 8vo size. Frater
"
tis, necnon Miracula. " These appeared at Hagen, a. d. 1515, 1516. "^
"
a work at
totius anni, tam de tempore quam de Sanctis, secundum ordinem Sarum. "
This is a folio volume. '^9 ]? orn in the year 1462, John of Trittenhem
became Abbot of Spanheim. He published many ascetic and historical
"
works. Among the latter are chiefly note-worthy, Catalogus lUustiura
Virorum Germaniam suis ingeniis et lucubrationibus omnifariam exornan-
" De Illustribus Viris Ordinis Sancti Benedicti and *' De ;"
"
of this work, intituled,
trium Virorum, cum Appendice eorum qui nostro etiam seculo doctissimi claruere. "'3i It contains some brief notices of a few among our earlier ecclesiastical writers. Leland complains of Trithemius having classed many English writers as Scoti. '32 This writer died on the 13th of De- cember, a. d. 1516. ^33
Thiery Martins, or Martens, or Theodore Martinus, an early and a most learned Flemish printer, was born at Alost, about a. d. 1450. He
began printing in the Netherlands, in 1473, and being a very distinguished philologist,'34 he was intimately acquainted with some of the most learned men in Louvain University. 'ss He wrote, "Hymni in Honorem Sancto- rura. "'36 Besides his own writings, beautiful editions of other works issued from his press. '37 He died at Alost, on the 28th of May, a. d.
Hungarus, of the Minorite Order, wrote
Biga Salutis, sive Sermones de Sanc-
Likewise, Wolfgang Hopyl printed
Paris, a. d. , 1518,
Legende
tium
ribus Ecclesiasticis. "'3o
Scripto- After his death appeared, a. d. 1531, a new edition
;"
''SSee " Relationum Historicarum de Re- bus Anglicis," tomus i. , pars, ii. , pp. 695, 696.
"* See "Athcnae Oxonenses," vol. i. ,
Britannicis," tomus i. , cap. xcii. , p. 126. '33 See Cardinal Bellarmin's "De Scrip*
toribus Ecclesiasticis," pp. 540 to 542. Venice edition, 1728.
'^4 See F. A. Van " Iseghem's Biogra-
phiedeThierryMartens. " This8vowork
appeared at Malines, a. d. 1852.
'35 See Mon. de Ram's "Considerations
sur I'Histoire de I'Universite de Louvain. " This dissertation appeared in "Bullentins de 1' Academic Royal de Belgique," tome xxi.
'3* Valere Andre attributes to his anthor- ship this work. See "Bibliotheca Belgica. " At present it seems to be unknown.
"' See Walts' " Bibliotheca Britannica,"
col. to
132 134.
See the edition of
1813.
London. 4to.
"7 See Brunei's "Manuel du Libraire,"
tome iii. , col. 1316.
»*® In two 4to volumes this work saw the
light.
'^See Watts' "Bibliotheca Britannica,"
vol. i. , pp. 513, o, and 526, 1. Also vol. ii. ,
p. 635, i.
'3° A collected edition of this writer's his-
torical works was issued at Frankfort, a.
