Manuscripts

Admont, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 25

Latin
c. 1200
Non-Celtic manuscripts
vellum

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

Austria Admont, Stiftsbibliothek

Shelfmark

25

Type

legendaries

Description

A collection of saints' lives known as the Legendarium magnum Austriacum, here covering saints that are commemorated on feast days in the months of January, February and March. It continues in another manuscript, Admont, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 24 with saints honoured in the months of April, May and June.

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin

Date

c. 1200

c. 1200⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Diarmuid Ó Riain, ‘The Magnum legendarium Austriacum: a new investigation of one of medieval Europe’s richest hagiographical collections’, Analecta Bollandiana 133 (2015); cf. 13th century, according to Mario Esposito, ‘On the earliest Latin life of St. Brigid of Kildare’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 30 C (1912–1913): 309.

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

Material

vellum

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Non-Celtic manuscripts