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The Vita Sancti Cuthberti (English: "Life of Saint Cuthbert") is a prose hagiography from early medieval Northumbria. It is probably the earliest extant saint's life from Anglo-Saxon England , and is an account of the life and miracles of Cuthbert (died 687), a Bernician hermit-monk who became bishop of Lindisfarne .
Cuthbert of Lindisfarne [a] (c. 634 – 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition.He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria, [b] today in northern England and southern Scotland.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... that the anonymous Vita sancti Cuthberti, or "Life of Saint Cuthbert", is the earliest piece of English Latin hagiography
[26] [27] Laistner lists twenty manuscripts, including one fragment; a 20th-century edition that includes a discussion of nineteen of the manuscripts is Werner Jaager, Bedas metrische Vita Sancti Cuthberti (1935). [25] Life of St. Cuthbert (prose) Bede wrote two lives of St Cuthbert; this one is in prose and was composed in about 721. [25]
The Parker version of the Anglian collection is part of a larger volume all written by the same two scribes using an Anglo-Celtic hand, and including most notably Bede's Vita Sancti Cuthberti. This volume was composed in South West England, perhaps at Glastonbury, and later in the Middle Ages was held by the Durham Cathedral Priory.
The early-12th-century De Miraculis et Translationibus sancti Cuthberti ("On the Miracles and Translation of St Cuthbert") is possibly the next text. [66] De Miraculis is a list of seven miracles performed by St Cuthbert, the first four of which are taken from the Historia , and expanded significantly with more complex prose, probably without ...
The Vita Sancti Cuthberti (c. 699 –705) is the first piece of Northumbrian Latin writing and the earliest piece of English Latin hagiography. [1] The Historia Brittonum composed in the 9th century is traditionally ascribed to Nennius.
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