The fourth volume, containing two hundred and seventy lives,
appeared
this same year.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1
" 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. d. 1600.
Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum, sive illus-
"
'3« This work, in a thin 4to volume of vol. ii. , p. 649, x, y. Mailtaire's Annales
184 folios, was printed at Cologne. Typographici," vol. i. , p. 334. Second '3» See " Commentarii de Scriptoribus Edition.
Ixxx INTRODUCTION.
1534. ^38 AnthonyCorvinusalsowroteaworkwhichwaspublished,'39"Breves
Expositiones supra ea Evangelia quae in praecipuis Festis Sanctorum praedi- cari soleat. " It was composed or broa/it to light about a. d. 1537. '^='
The first great collection of saints' lives was that published by Aloysius Lewis or Ludovicus Lippomanus, who was born about the year 1500. Successively he had been appointed Bishop over Modon, over Verona, and
over Bergamo. Lippomani was secretary to Pope Julius III. , and he was also made Legate of the Holy See, and President at the Council of Trent. Notwithstanding the exalted nature of his functions, he was enabled to
"
publish many learned works. Among these, the principal are,
Sanctorum
Priscorum Patruum Vitae, numero clxiii. ex variis Auctoribus CoUectae, cum
Notis. " Lib. iv. '^i This appeared at Rome, a. d. 1551. It was followed
by the second tome, comprising two hundred and twenty-five lives, in 1553.
Thethirdcontainedanewseriesofdetachedlives; StPalladius,theBook of St. Gregory of Tours, De Miraculis Martyrum, St. Julianus and St. Martin,
Bishop: it was published in 1554.
The fourth volume, containing two hundred and seventy lives, appeared this same year. The fifth tome, issued
A. D. 1556, having Metaphrastes in the beginning, with the months of November, December, January, and February. Two additional tomes came out, A. D. 1558. One of these contained Saints' Acts for the months of May,
June, July, August, September, and October; while the other was divided
into three parts, viz. : i, the months of March and April j 2, another collec-
tion of Metaphrastes,'4^ translated by Cardinal Sirlet : and 3, the " Pra tum
Spirituale" of John Moschus. '*3 For critical accuracy, this coUectio n of
Saints'Actsisnotgreatlyesteemed. '** Ithadbeencompleted,too,without
any regularity of plan-'^s Tnis pious and learned prelate died a. d. 155 9,'**
or according to other accounts, a. d. 1560. His nephew, Hieronimo Lippo-
mani, published a supplementary posthumous volume, and which comprised
'*
an eighth tome of
uncle. '*' This compilation was reprinted at Louvain, a. d. 1566. '*^ The
•a" His tomb is to be seen in the pare- chial church of this place. To honour his memory, a public statue has been erected in his native town, A. D. 1856.
'39 In 8vo. Hal. S.
'* See Watts' " Bibliotheca Britannica," vol. i. , p. 260, j.
'*' The notes are separately printed in
Italian ; and two volumes have been devoted
vol. ii. , p. 609, s. t.
'*5 The notes, however, were the germs
of future hagiographical criticism, '**SeeJeremy Collier's "Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical, and Poetical
Dictionary," vol. Art. Lippomannus.
'' <« In the article in the Biographie Uni-
verselle on Lippomani, though signed by two honourable names, there are three
Lives of the Fathers," translated from the Greek, by his
to a Latin translation of Simeon Meta- errors: they give but six volumes—state
phrates' Lives of Saints. See M. le Dr. that Metaphrastes fills the two last—a—nd
"
Hoefer's Nouvelle Biographie Generale," thatall were published froml55i to 1558. "
"
tome xxxi. , pp. 328, 329. Duffy's
Irish Catholic Magazine," vol. ii. , '* This was taken from a MS. of the p. 30, n. ist col.
Crypta Ferrata. '** It was translated into French, by Ga- '*5 Thus were seven folio tomes published briel de Payorbault, and published at Paris, by Bishop Lugi Lippomani. a. d. 1572. This work of the Lippomani
•4 See Watts' " Bibliotheca Britannica," was a great publishing effort, for the time.
INTRODUCTION. Ixxxi
learned antiquary, John Leland,'<9 flourished within the first half of the
sixteen:;h century. He went to Cambridge, and received his academical
education at Christ College ;'5o afterwards he studied at Oxford. By his
industrious researches into English history, Leland materially contributed,
to preserve from time's decay, many particulars regarding Irish Saints and
religious foundations. Besides some valuable antiquarian works, which
appeared during his lifetime, he left several manuscript volumes of extracts
and collections, taken from cathedral, abbatial, and collegiate libraries.
"
His Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis," very imperfectly edited by
Anthony Hall, appeared at Oxford, a. d. lyog. 's^ His "Itinerary through most parts of England and Wales," has been published by Mr. Heame,
A. D. lyio-ii. 's' His "Collectanea de Rebus Britannicis," appeared a. d.
1 '53 These works are now scarce. A collected and well 71 5. extremely
edited series of this celebrated antiquary's complete works should be issued, as a boon for historical investigators. He died on the iSth of April, a. d. 1552,inthecityofLondon. '54 "TheLifeofLeland,"bytheRev. William
Huddesford, was published at Oxford, a. d. i772. 'ss
A very elegant edition of Saints' Lives was prepared for publication by Laurence Surius. This he published in six folio volumes ; the first tome
appearing in the year 1576 ;'56 others following at successive intervals. The Saints' Acts were arranged according to successive days of the months and year, as found in the order of the Roman Calendar. 'S7 Surius made his selectionsfromLivesoftheSaints,aspublishedbyLippomani. However, he rejected those that were considered open to severe criticism ; but, he added many inedited documents to his collection. Deliberate expurgations and alterations were made in the text of original documents, either to render his work less objectionable for prevailing critical and severe taste, or to infuse a greater elegance of style and a purer Latinity. These suppressions and amendments, however, tended to lessen the authentic and historical value of his work, " De Probatis Sanctorum Vitis," and to destroy the origi- nality of its component materials. There are few notes, historical, topogra- phical, or critical, annexed to the various Saints' Lives, but there are short
'*9 See Anthony A. Wood's " Athenae Oxonienses," vol. i. , col. 197 to 204. New Edition, with additions, and a continuation
by Philip Bliss. London, 1813, 4to.
'50 See "Athenae Cantabrigienses," by Charles Henry Cooper, F. S. A. , and Thompson Cooper, vol. i. , pp. no, ill,
'ss In 8vo shape.
'ss An edition of this work was published at Cologne, A. D. 1617, in six folio volumes,
*'
542. London, 1858, et seq. 8vo. 'S' In two 8vo volumes.
'S» In nine 8vo volumes.
'53 In six 8vo volumes.
"
'5* See John Pitts*
carumde Rebus Anglicis," tomus i. , pars. ii. , p. 744.
Relationum Histori-
*
The title-page of this edition is : Sanctorum ex Probatis Authoribus et JISS. Codicibus. " Primo quidem per R. P. Fr. Laurentium Surium Carthusianum editre, nunc vero multis sanctorum Vitis auctse, emundatas et notis marginalibus illustratae. Colonise Agrippinae, cio. ioc. xvii. The paging of this edition is frequently found to be incorrect,
»57 The saints of two months are comprised in each tome.
Vitae
Ixxxli INTRODUCTION.
accompanying notices regarding the sources, whence those biographies had been derived. Several Acts of our national Saints are found in his volumes.
Surius was about to publish a second edition of the work, but he did not
live to complete this design.
The Spanish Jesuit, Father Ribadineira, published a series of Saints'
Lives,inhiscountry'svernacular. 'ss Thiscollectionwasafterwardstranslated
into Latin,'53 French, and English. '^ Professedly it digests into the form of sermons or pan/gerics t'. i3 saints' actions ; bat, it mast be remarked, the mode of treatment is severely historical more than rhetorical. It only con- tains a few notices of Irish Saints. Pietro Galesini of Milan, Apostolic Notary, endeavoured to new-model the Roman Martyrology, by illustrating and correcting it, as likewise by adding a number of new facts respecting the saints. His work was dedicated to Pope Gregory XIII. It was published at Milan, A. D. 1577, and at Venice, a. d. 1578. "^' This work was not ap-
"5»
owing chiefly
came a Doctor of Theology at Louvain, and he published there " De Pic-
" Natales Sanctorum et eorum chronica Belgii,
proved by
the Roman
to its over-elaborate ^'3 plan.
censors,
Jean Ver Meulen, Latinized John Molanus, born at Lille, a. d. 1533, be-
was It is published.
"
In the year 1595, a small octavo posthumous volume
turis et Imaginibus Sacris," a. d. 1570. In the year 1573, torum Belgii" issued.
Indiculus Sanc-
intituled,
recapitulatio. " TheseworkscontainsomeshortactsornoticesofIrishsaints,
whoinvariousmissionarycapacitieshadbeenconnectedwithBelgium. The author died, September i8th, 1585. '^+ Arnold Wion, a Belgian monk of
"
the Benedictine Order, published
Lignum Vitae, in quo Religionis D. Bene-
dicti initia, et viri clari describuntur in lib. v. " It appeared at Venice,*^^
A. D. iSgS-'^"^ In it are contained some notices of Irish saints. Fr. Zacharias
Lippeloo published compendious acts of the saints at Brixiad, a. d. 1601. *^'
"
atque Sanctarum Virginum. ""^^ Besides these works, Antonio Possevino,
This was intituled,
Vitge Sanctorum sive Res Gestae Martyrum, Confessorum
»s8 It was illustrated with cuts, and pub- lished A. D. 1572. See Watts' "Bibliotheca Britannica," vol. ii. , p. 801, j.
vol. i. , p. 396, w.
'^3 See "Encyclopedic Catholique," &c. , Public sous la Direction de I'Abbe Glaire et de M. le Vte. Walsh, tome xii , p. 425.
'** See M. le Dr. Hoefer's "Nouvelle
"
seu Vitae et Res Gestas Sanctorum ex pro-
'59 The Latin title is,
Flos Sanctoram,
batis scriptoribus selectae, et in forniam Biographic Generale," &c. , tome xxxv. ,
concionum singulari cura ad usum conciona- torumaccommodata. " PrimumHispanice a R. P. Petro Ribadineira Toletano e socie- tate Jesu. This edition was published at Cologne, A. D, 1630. It had a-lditions of new Saints' Acts, w. lh useful annotations.
cols. 240, 241. »*5in4toform.
'**
See Watts' ••Bibliotheca_Britanmca," vol. ii. , p. 976, z.
""' In lour 410 volumes,
'^s The only edition of this work, I have
been enabled to bears for title ; consult,
" Vitae sive Res geitce Sanctoram, ex se-
'^^ A third edition of this English
work, in folio shape, was issued in Dublin, by
subscription, a. d. 1763.
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. d. 1600.
Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum, sive illus-
"
'3« This work, in a thin 4to volume of vol. ii. , p. 649, x, y. Mailtaire's Annales
184 folios, was printed at Cologne. Typographici," vol. i. , p. 334. Second '3» See " Commentarii de Scriptoribus Edition.
Ixxx INTRODUCTION.
1534. ^38 AnthonyCorvinusalsowroteaworkwhichwaspublished,'39"Breves
Expositiones supra ea Evangelia quae in praecipuis Festis Sanctorum praedi- cari soleat. " It was composed or broa/it to light about a. d. 1537. '^='
The first great collection of saints' lives was that published by Aloysius Lewis or Ludovicus Lippomanus, who was born about the year 1500. Successively he had been appointed Bishop over Modon, over Verona, and
over Bergamo. Lippomani was secretary to Pope Julius III. , and he was also made Legate of the Holy See, and President at the Council of Trent. Notwithstanding the exalted nature of his functions, he was enabled to
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publish many learned works. Among these, the principal are,
Sanctorum
Priscorum Patruum Vitae, numero clxiii. ex variis Auctoribus CoUectae, cum
Notis. " Lib. iv. '^i This appeared at Rome, a. d. 1551. It was followed
by the second tome, comprising two hundred and twenty-five lives, in 1553.
Thethirdcontainedanewseriesofdetachedlives; StPalladius,theBook of St. Gregory of Tours, De Miraculis Martyrum, St. Julianus and St. Martin,
Bishop: it was published in 1554.
The fourth volume, containing two hundred and seventy lives, appeared this same year. The fifth tome, issued
A. D. 1556, having Metaphrastes in the beginning, with the months of November, December, January, and February. Two additional tomes came out, A. D. 1558. One of these contained Saints' Acts for the months of May,
June, July, August, September, and October; while the other was divided
into three parts, viz. : i, the months of March and April j 2, another collec-
tion of Metaphrastes,'4^ translated by Cardinal Sirlet : and 3, the " Pra tum
Spirituale" of John Moschus. '*3 For critical accuracy, this coUectio n of
Saints'Actsisnotgreatlyesteemed. '** Ithadbeencompleted,too,without
any regularity of plan-'^s Tnis pious and learned prelate died a. d. 155 9,'**
or according to other accounts, a. d. 1560. His nephew, Hieronimo Lippo-
mani, published a supplementary posthumous volume, and which comprised
'*
an eighth tome of
uncle. '*' This compilation was reprinted at Louvain, a. d. 1566. '*^ The
•a" His tomb is to be seen in the pare- chial church of this place. To honour his memory, a public statue has been erected in his native town, A. D. 1856.
'39 In 8vo. Hal. S.
'* See Watts' " Bibliotheca Britannica," vol. i. , p. 260, j.
'*' The notes are separately printed in
Italian ; and two volumes have been devoted
vol. ii. , p. 609, s. t.
'*5 The notes, however, were the germs
of future hagiographical criticism, '**SeeJeremy Collier's "Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical, and Poetical
Dictionary," vol. Art. Lippomannus.
'' <« In the article in the Biographie Uni-
verselle on Lippomani, though signed by two honourable names, there are three
Lives of the Fathers," translated from the Greek, by his
to a Latin translation of Simeon Meta- errors: they give but six volumes—state
phrates' Lives of Saints. See M. le Dr. that Metaphrastes fills the two last—a—nd
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Hoefer's Nouvelle Biographie Generale," thatall were published froml55i to 1558. "
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tome xxxi. , pp. 328, 329. Duffy's
Irish Catholic Magazine," vol. ii. , '* This was taken from a MS. of the p. 30, n. ist col.
Crypta Ferrata. '** It was translated into French, by Ga- '*5 Thus were seven folio tomes published briel de Payorbault, and published at Paris, by Bishop Lugi Lippomani. a. d. 1572. This work of the Lippomani
•4 See Watts' " Bibliotheca Britannica," was a great publishing effort, for the time.
INTRODUCTION. Ixxxi
learned antiquary, John Leland,'<9 flourished within the first half of the
sixteen:;h century. He went to Cambridge, and received his academical
education at Christ College ;'5o afterwards he studied at Oxford. By his
industrious researches into English history, Leland materially contributed,
to preserve from time's decay, many particulars regarding Irish Saints and
religious foundations. Besides some valuable antiquarian works, which
appeared during his lifetime, he left several manuscript volumes of extracts
and collections, taken from cathedral, abbatial, and collegiate libraries.
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His Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis," very imperfectly edited by
Anthony Hall, appeared at Oxford, a. d. lyog. 's^ His "Itinerary through most parts of England and Wales," has been published by Mr. Heame,
A. D. lyio-ii. 's' His "Collectanea de Rebus Britannicis," appeared a. d.
1 '53 These works are now scarce. A collected and well 71 5. extremely
edited series of this celebrated antiquary's complete works should be issued, as a boon for historical investigators. He died on the iSth of April, a. d. 1552,inthecityofLondon. '54 "TheLifeofLeland,"bytheRev. William
Huddesford, was published at Oxford, a. d. i772. 'ss
A very elegant edition of Saints' Lives was prepared for publication by Laurence Surius. This he published in six folio volumes ; the first tome
appearing in the year 1576 ;'56 others following at successive intervals. The Saints' Acts were arranged according to successive days of the months and year, as found in the order of the Roman Calendar. 'S7 Surius made his selectionsfromLivesoftheSaints,aspublishedbyLippomani. However, he rejected those that were considered open to severe criticism ; but, he added many inedited documents to his collection. Deliberate expurgations and alterations were made in the text of original documents, either to render his work less objectionable for prevailing critical and severe taste, or to infuse a greater elegance of style and a purer Latinity. These suppressions and amendments, however, tended to lessen the authentic and historical value of his work, " De Probatis Sanctorum Vitis," and to destroy the origi- nality of its component materials. There are few notes, historical, topogra- phical, or critical, annexed to the various Saints' Lives, but there are short
'*9 See Anthony A. Wood's " Athenae Oxonienses," vol. i. , col. 197 to 204. New Edition, with additions, and a continuation
by Philip Bliss. London, 1813, 4to.
'50 See "Athenae Cantabrigienses," by Charles Henry Cooper, F. S. A. , and Thompson Cooper, vol. i. , pp. no, ill,
'ss In 8vo shape.
'ss An edition of this work was published at Cologne, A. D. 1617, in six folio volumes,
*'
542. London, 1858, et seq. 8vo. 'S' In two 8vo volumes.
'S» In nine 8vo volumes.
'53 In six 8vo volumes.
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'5* See John Pitts*
carumde Rebus Anglicis," tomus i. , pars. ii. , p. 744.
Relationum Histori-
*
The title-page of this edition is : Sanctorum ex Probatis Authoribus et JISS. Codicibus. " Primo quidem per R. P. Fr. Laurentium Surium Carthusianum editre, nunc vero multis sanctorum Vitis auctse, emundatas et notis marginalibus illustratae. Colonise Agrippinae, cio. ioc. xvii. The paging of this edition is frequently found to be incorrect,
»57 The saints of two months are comprised in each tome.
Vitae
Ixxxli INTRODUCTION.
accompanying notices regarding the sources, whence those biographies had been derived. Several Acts of our national Saints are found in his volumes.
Surius was about to publish a second edition of the work, but he did not
live to complete this design.
The Spanish Jesuit, Father Ribadineira, published a series of Saints'
Lives,inhiscountry'svernacular. 'ss Thiscollectionwasafterwardstranslated
into Latin,'53 French, and English. '^ Professedly it digests into the form of sermons or pan/gerics t'. i3 saints' actions ; bat, it mast be remarked, the mode of treatment is severely historical more than rhetorical. It only con- tains a few notices of Irish Saints. Pietro Galesini of Milan, Apostolic Notary, endeavoured to new-model the Roman Martyrology, by illustrating and correcting it, as likewise by adding a number of new facts respecting the saints. His work was dedicated to Pope Gregory XIII. It was published at Milan, A. D. 1577, and at Venice, a. d. 1578. "^' This work was not ap-
"5»
owing chiefly
came a Doctor of Theology at Louvain, and he published there " De Pic-
" Natales Sanctorum et eorum chronica Belgii,
proved by
the Roman
to its over-elaborate ^'3 plan.
censors,
Jean Ver Meulen, Latinized John Molanus, born at Lille, a. d. 1533, be-
was It is published.
"
In the year 1595, a small octavo posthumous volume
turis et Imaginibus Sacris," a. d. 1570. In the year 1573, torum Belgii" issued.
Indiculus Sanc-
intituled,
recapitulatio. " TheseworkscontainsomeshortactsornoticesofIrishsaints,
whoinvariousmissionarycapacitieshadbeenconnectedwithBelgium. The author died, September i8th, 1585. '^+ Arnold Wion, a Belgian monk of
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the Benedictine Order, published
Lignum Vitae, in quo Religionis D. Bene-
dicti initia, et viri clari describuntur in lib. v. " It appeared at Venice,*^^
A. D. iSgS-'^"^ In it are contained some notices of Irish saints. Fr. Zacharias
Lippeloo published compendious acts of the saints at Brixiad, a. d. 1601. *^'
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atque Sanctarum Virginum. ""^^ Besides these works, Antonio Possevino,
This was intituled,
Vitge Sanctorum sive Res Gestae Martyrum, Confessorum
»s8 It was illustrated with cuts, and pub- lished A. D. 1572. See Watts' "Bibliotheca Britannica," vol. ii. , p. 801, j.
vol. i. , p. 396, w.
'^3 See "Encyclopedic Catholique," &c. , Public sous la Direction de I'Abbe Glaire et de M. le Vte. Walsh, tome xii , p. 425.
'** See M. le Dr. Hoefer's "Nouvelle
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seu Vitae et Res Gestas Sanctorum ex pro-
'59 The Latin title is,
Flos Sanctoram,
batis scriptoribus selectae, et in forniam Biographic Generale," &c. , tome xxxv. ,
concionum singulari cura ad usum conciona- torumaccommodata. " PrimumHispanice a R. P. Petro Ribadineira Toletano e socie- tate Jesu. This edition was published at Cologne, A. D, 1630. It had a-lditions of new Saints' Acts, w. lh useful annotations.
cols. 240, 241. »*5in4toform.
'**
See Watts' ••Bibliotheca_Britanmca," vol. ii. , p. 976, z.
""' In lour 410 volumes,
'^s The only edition of this work, I have
been enabled to bears for title ; consult,
" Vitae sive Res geitce Sanctoram, ex se-
'^^ A third edition of this English
work, in folio shape, was issued in Dublin, by
subscription, a. d. 1763.
