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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.
Life of St. Cuthbert (prose) Bede wrote two lives of St Cuthbert; this one is in prose and was composed in about 721. [25] It is in part based on an earlier life of St Cuthbert, anonymous but probably written by a monk of Lindisfarne. [28] Martyrology. Description: Bede probably wrote this between 725 and 731. [29]
The incorrupt body of Cuthbert from Bede's Life of Cuthbert, 12th century Location of St Cuthbert's tomb and reburial in Durham Cathedral; behind is a damaged statue of St Cuthbert, holding the head of the king St Oswald (whose head was reburied with Cuthbert) According to Bede's life of the saint, when Cuthbert's sarcophagus was opened eleven ...
Bede would also have been familiar with more recent accounts such as Stephen of Ripon's Life of Wilfrid, and anonymous Life of Gregory the Great and Life of Cuthbert. [63] He also drew on Josephus 's Antiquities , and the works of Cassiodorus , [ 67 ] and there was a copy of the Liber Pontificalis in Bede's monastery. [ 68 ]
Cuthbert's incorrupt body. 12th-century miniature from British Library Yates Thomson MS 26 version of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert. The Historia de Sancto Cuthberto ("History of St Cuthbert") is a historical compilation finished some time after 1031.
The Life of Saint Guthlac and Bede's Life of St Cuthbert for instance both provide a description of how to be a good monk or hermit. [70] There are other stories within the hagiographies that would have had greater relevance to layfolk, in particular members of the royalty and nobility. [71]
Colgrave's annotated translation of Bede's 7th century prose Life of St Cuthbert was published in 1940. Title page of 10th-century manuscript in British Library with animal heads and plant motifs in first illuminated letter.
The St Cuthbert Gospel, also known as the Stonyhurst Gospel or the St Cuthbert Gospel of St John, is an early 8th-century pocket gospel book, written in Latin. Its finely decorated leather binding is the earliest known Western bookbinding to survive, and both the 94 vellum folios and the binding are in outstanding condition for a book of this age.