Texts

Virtutes sancti Fursei

Incoming data

Anonymous Latin text about St Fursa (d. c.650) and his miracles, composed perhaps around 800, or a little later. It was probably written as a supplement to the saint’s first Life, Vita sancti Fursei (7th c.), a role which it maintained in the manuscripts, where the Virtutes is always found in association with the Vita. BHL 3213.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS lat. quart. 122

C5 (Krusch).

Text

Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 864

C4c¹ (Krusch). Follows a Vita of class B (B2a⁴).

ff. 105–108v

MS

Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 865

incipit: Rem actam atque gestam

f. 149–f. 151v

Text

Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 865

C4c¹* (Krusch). Follows a Vita of class B (B2a⁴*).

ff. 149v–151v

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 2797

C4c (Krusch). Krusch notes that the text has been changed by a later hand.

ff. 101–108v

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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 17137

C3b (Krusch). Version without ch. 1-3, followed by the Additamentum.

ff. 58v–61

Text

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 11749

C4b (Krusch).

ff. 10v–13

Text

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 17625

C4a (Krusch, who mentions this witness in the variant readings).

ff. 124v–130v

Text

Rein, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 51

D2b* (Krusch). Omits ch. 1-3 (cf. Munich MS Clm 17137).

Text

Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Sessoriano 40/ff. 185r-205v

C2a (Krusch).

ff. 199rb–205v

Text

Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 715/vol. 1

C3a (Krusch).

ff. 68v–70v

Text

The Hague, Royal Library, MS 71 H 66

C3 (Krusch)

Text

Wormsley Park, Getty Library, MS BM4149

C2b (Krusch), preceded by a version of the Vita which Krusch assigned to class A.

ff. 62v–66v

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>

440–449 direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Riain, Pádraig, “Les Vies de Saint Fursy: les sources irlandaises”, Revue du Nord 68 (1986): 405–413.