Texts

Latin Life of St Foillán of Fosses, a brother of St Fursa. It was written as a supplement to Vita Fursei. BHL 3211. 

Manuscript witnesses

MS
f. 132v–f. 146r
Text
ff. 48ra–48rb  
Text
ff. ?–113  
Text
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 17137 
Krusch’s C3b.
f. 61r-61v  
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Rühn, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 51 
ff. 132v–134v  
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Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 421 
Krusch’s Salisb 36.
ff. 96–97  
MS
Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS Rhen. 81/pp. 352-379 
context: Vita sancti Fursei   rubric: Incipit vita sancti ac beatissimi Fursei abbatis   incipit: Fuit vir vitae venerabilis   incl. Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano   Incl. the Additamentum Nivellense. Page 363 is in a different hand whose style has been described as Irish in character and shows an Insular as well as a comtinental letter g.
in section: p. 352–p. 378
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Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS Rhen. 81/pp. 352-379 
Inserted in the middle of the Vita Fursei (Krusch's A1a).

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Krusch, Bruno (ed.), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (II), MGH Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 4, Hanover, 1902.
Digital MGH: <link>
449–451
[add.] [corr.] Krusch, B., “Vita virtutesque Fursei abbatis Latiniacensis et de Fuilano additamentum Nivialense”, in: Bruno Krusch, and Wilhelm Levison (eds), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (V), 7, Hanover and Leipzig, 1920. 837–842.
Digital MGH: <link>
Incl. variant readings.
[tr.] Fouracre, Paul, and Richard A. Gerberding [trs.], Late Merovingian France: history and hagiography, 640-720, Manchester Medieval Sources Series, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.
327–329, with introduction at 301ff.

Secondary sources (select)

Grosjean, Paul, “Notes d’hagiographie celtique, no. 38: Chronologie de S. Feuillen”, Analecta Bollandiana 75 (1957): 379–392.
Grosjean, Paul, “Notes d’hagiographie celtique, no. 39: Où fut assassiné S. Feuillen?”, Analecta Bollandiana 75 (1957): 393–406.
Grosjean, Paul, “Notes d’hagiographie celtique, no. 40: Les compagnons de martyre de S. Feuillen”, Analecta Bollandiana 75 (1957): 407–418.
Grosjean, Paul, “Notes d’hagiographie celtique, no. 41: Les saints irlandais dans les litanies du Pontifical carolingien de Fribourg-en-Brisgau”, Analecta Bollandiana 75 (1957): 419–420.