South English Legendary

South English Legendary

The "South English Legendary" is a Middle English (13th to 14th century) legendary (an Anglo-Saxon hagiographic manuscript), best preserved in MS Harley 2277 and CCCC 145, which contain 92 lives. The collection is so comprehensive as to include lives of "anti-saints" Judas and Pilate. It is written in the same dialect and metre as the Gloucester Chronicle, with certain lives appearing in both, suggesting at least some authorial overlap.

The Bodleian Library houses the oldest manuscript (Laud 108), which is estimated to have been written in 1265, although its editor (Horstmann) dates it 1280-90. It is likely that the manuscript elements were being worked on for many years in advance of its compilation.

Editions

*D'Evelyn and Mill, "The South English Legendary, edited from Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS. 145 and British Museum MS. Harley 2277" (1956), review: Dorothy Bethurum, Speculum (1959).

External links

http://www.bartleby.com/211/1603.html


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