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Easting, Robert, and Richard Sharpe, Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Studies and Texts, 184, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Bodleian Library, 2013. xvi + 615 pp.

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Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations
Place
Toronto
Publisher
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies • Bodleian Library
Year
2013
Number of pages
xvi + 615
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Abstract (cited)
This is the first book-length study of Peter of Cornwall, prior of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, London, whose Liber Reuelationum (Lambeth Palace Library, MS 51), dated to the year 1200, is a compilation of over 1,100 chapters, excerpted from some 275 Latin texts, dealing with visions of the otherworld and revelatory appearances of God, Christ, Mary, angels, saints, devils, and revenants. Peter’s purpose in collecting such material from saints’ Lives, chronicles, and free-standing vision texts from the first century AD through to his own day was to provide evidence to convince unbelievers of the existence of God, the soul, and life after death. Accounts of new visionary experiences circulating in England in the 1190s doubtless prompted his collection. Like his other large-scale work, Pantheologus, Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations was intended to assist preachers with propagating the fundamentals of the faith. This volume introduces Peter’s life and writings and presents editions with parallel English translations of those parts of the Lambeth manuscript that Peter composed himself. A detailed description of the manuscript is included, and a Calendar identifies the source for each of Peter’s chapters. A bibliography and indices complete this volume, which provides a marvellous resource for scholars interested in the Latin literature of medieval dreams, visionary experience, and the eschatological concerns of sin, penance, death, the afterlife, and the judgement of the soul.
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Prefatory matter
[1] “The life and writings of Peter of Cornwall”
1
[2] Liber reuelationum: introduction and Peter’s prologue”
Including text and translation (p. 74ff)
35
[3] “Peter of Cornwall’s account of St Patrick’s Purgatory”
Including text and translation
116
[4] “The visions of Ailsi”
Including text and translation
142
[5] “Visions at the Cistercian Abbey of Ham, Essex”
Including text and translation
216
[6] “Visions at Lessness, Kent”
Including text and translation
254
[7] “Other tales told by Peter of Cornwall”
Including text and translation
268
[8] “The manuscript of Liber reuelationum
342
“Calendar of Liber Reuelationum, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 51”
355
Bibliography and indices
551
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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May 2014, last updated: September 2021