A late medieval legendary written at the monastery of Böddeken (Kreis Paderborn). It is thought to have been a substantial collection, spanning twelve volumes for each month of the year, although little of it survives today. Those for February, June, August and November appear to have been lost when Bollandist scholar H. Moretus produced his catalogue description (1908). Those for December and a part of March were later found together in a manuscript at Paderborn. Most of the volumes which Moretus was able to consult were held in Münster, but they were destroyed by fire in 1945, leaving the Paderborn MS (March, December) and a manuscript (October), together with a single leaf (June), in Schloss Erpernburg as the last physical remains of the collection.
Major collection of the Lives of the saints of England and to a lesser extent, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, edited by an anonymous redactor (previously identified as John Capgrave) from an earlier collection compiled by John of Tynemouth, Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae. While the latter is arranged by feastday, the Nova legenda Angliae is arranged alphabetically. It was edited and printed in 1516 by Wynkyn de Worde, who added 15 additional Lives.
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Major collection of 156 Lives of the saints of England and to a lesser extent, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, compiled by John of Tynemouth in the first quarter of the 14th century.
