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Legenda aura [incomplete] by Jacobus da Varagine

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Identifier: MS 89/ff. 90r-101v
Contents This section of the manuscript contains an extract of Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend), a compilation of biographies of saints, or hagiographies, widely read in the late Middle Ages. The text was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus da Varagine (c. 1230-1298), an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa.ContentsText: starts imperfectly on f. 90r with the following...
Dates: 12th-14th century

Memoriae, early 16th century

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Identifier: MS 114/ff. 87v-97r
Contents Each Memoria is dedicated to a Saint or Martyr. The prayer normally contains details of the life of the Saint to whom each particular Memoria is dedicated. In this manuscript we find: the Guardian Angel (ff. 87v-88v); Saint John the Baptist (ff. 88v-90r); Saint John the Evangelist (ff. 90r-91r); Saint Quirinus (ff. 91r-92r, his cult was particularly strong in Neuss, the area of provenance of the manuscript); Saint Augustine of...
Dates: early 16th century

MS 23: Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 23
Contents The manuscript is a 15th-century composite containing works relating to virgin saints. It is German or Dutch. The works contained within it are detailed separately below.ff.1r-40v: Revelatio Nova Itineris et Passionis Undecim Milium Virginum Martyrum (The Passion of the Eleven Thousand Virgins). This text is related to Saint Ursula.ff.40v-72v: Vita et Legenda Beate Katherine Virginis (The Life and...
Dates: 15th century