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Nova legenda Angliae

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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.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho D ix

Severely damaged in the fire of 1731.

ff. 1r–269v

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 15

MS

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 15

f. 1

Text

York, Minster Library, MS XVI.G.23

ff. 109r–192v

Sources

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[ed.] Horstman, Carl, Nova legenda Anglie: as collected by John of Tynemouth, John Capgrave and others, 2 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901.

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Nova legenda Anglie, ed. Wynkyn de Worde, London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1516.

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Secondary sources (select)

Lucas, Peter J., “Capgrave and the Nova legenda Anglie: a survey”, The Library, 5th Series 25 (1970): 1–10.