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The Life of Saint Boniface TH E L IFE O F SA INT BO NIFA C E BY WILLI BALD TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES I S G EO RG E W . RO B N O N SECRETARY OF THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNI VERSITY PRE S S LONDON : HUMPHREY MI LFORD OXI ORD UNIVERS ITY P RE SS 1 9 1 6 C GH 1 1 6 OP YRI T, 9 HARVARD UNIVERSITY P RESS MANIBUS SAMUEL COLCORD BARTLETT HENRICI ELIAE PARKER EDUARDI RUSH RUGGLES LUDOVICI POLLENS RUFI BYAM RICHARDSON MARVINI DAVIS BISBEE CAROLI FRANCISCI RICHARDSON PROFESSORUM DARTMUTHENSIUM INTER ANNOS MDCCCXC ET MDCCCXCIII SACRUM SEDEM SEPULCRI SERVET IMMOTUS CINIS MEMORIA VIVAT NOMINUM P R E FA C E ’ THI S fi rst English translation of Willibald s Life Of n r Sai t Boniface , the Apostle of Ge many, is based on ’ Wilhelm Levison s edition of the text : Vi tae S and i ’ ’ ' ’ B omfati z A rchi epi scopi Moguntzm (Hannoverae et — Li siae . 1 . p , pp 5 7 I am glad to express my obli gations to P rofessors Ephraim Emerton and Edward Kennard Rand of Har vard University for helpful suggestions ; and to Mr. D z l Frederick C . iet , who has kind y examined for me a number of editions and translations in the B ritish Museum . For some of the references in the notes I am indebted r to earlier commentato s . Where these references I seem to have become common property, have con sidered specific acknowledgment unnecessary . For Of I the sake convenience , have employed cer n t in ll tai abbrevia ions the footnotes , as fo ows E tola r B o i am et Lulli is e. Erns Diimmle S . n . t , f p i i e Karolini H . E olae Merowin c t In M . G. , pist g i Berolini A vi om . e , t ( , ta Germaniae Histori ca . M . G. H . Monumen ’ P ne P atrolo za Latina . P . L ac ue aul Mi J q s g , g R OB INS ON . GE O GE W . R AMB I G MA ACHU E C R D E, SS S TTS , une 1 1 . J , 9 5 C O N TE NT S PA GE INTRODUCTION THE LIFE OF SAINT BONIFACE A LIST OF EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF THE LIFE I DEX OF A H R 0 N UT O S CITED IN THE NOTES . 1 5 GENERAL INDEX 1 09 INTROD UCTION THE chi ef sources from which our knowledge of Saint fi n Boniface is drawn are , rst , the writi gs of Boniface him hi s ad self , particularly Letters , with the letters dressed to him which have been preserved with hi s l own ; secondly, the Life by Wil ibald . The Life of ’ l i Liud er 2 Gregory , the sa nt s beloved disciple , by g , also presents a number of valuable notices ; and the Sturmi 3 Ei il 4 Life of Abbot of Fulda, by g , gives the best and fullest account of the beginni ngs of the great ‘3 ni abbey of Fulda , the special delight of the decli ng r 6 yea s of Boniface , and the spot which he chose as the 7 m r fin al resting place for hi s body . Other conte po ary r ni r mate ial includes a few passages in the chro cle s , and ' i Of E a 3 in the Lives of Will bald , bishop ichst tt , and W nn ebald Heidenheirn 9 r y , abbot of , b others , and rela 10 11 ti es H . v of Boniface , by the Nun of eidenheim 1 Abbot of Saint Martin at Utrecht ; died about 7 75 . ’ 2 n i h Mim r Apostle of the Frisians and Saxo s b s op of ste c. 804 809 ; died 809 . 4 3 Died 2 2 i 8 . D ed 7 79 . 5 Mar Ri il ita S turmi 1 . 2 . Foun ded 1 ch 744 g , V , 3 ’ ber Hauc Ki rchen eschzckte Deutschlands i 2 d cd. E . 86 Al , ; t k , g , ( , i i Le . 66 . ps c, p 5 7 belo . E . 86 a es 0 , ; p g 79 , 9 , w 9 i Willibald di ed not be ore 86 . P a e belo . B sho g 7 7 , w p f 7 1 Died 19 December 76 . 1° n baldi : ui carnale ro in ui a is et san uini Vita Wyn e , 4 q p p q t t g ” copulatione i110 fuerat so ciatus atque glutinatus . 11 e ri en the Li e of illibald rom his The Nun appears to hav w tt f W , f 1 1 I 2 INTRODUCTION The extant works of Boniface comprise a grammar , fi some fragments on metres , poems , letters , and fteen 1 S Livinus 2 sermons . The Life of aint , formerly hi m wrongly ascribed to , was probably composed 3 about the middle of the eleventh century . The grammar (A rs Domni B omfacii A rchi epi scopi at Martyri s) was edited by Angelo Mai in 1 83 It may dic a ion and no es not lon a er 2 une 8 and the Li e oi W nne t t t , g ft 3 J 7 7 , f y ! bald a li le la er rom the rela ion of his sis er Waldbur a abbess of tt t , f t t g . — Heid nh eim and of his riends and disci les . Bo h Li es are rin ed e , f p t v p t i tor s I . in . G. H Scr e M p , xv , 1 The authenticity of the sermons has been doubted; but without Re b r Kir See the remar s of . tt e chen e en cau . W suffi ci t se k F g, g i in en 1 6 . 0 f d Adol D ut hlands GOtt 8 8 . an schi chte e sc ( g , 4 , pp 4 ; f Eber Geschi chte der chri stlich-lateinischen Literatur bis z um eitalter t , Z i i 6 1 Le s c . Karls des Grossen ( p , p 4 - The so called P oenitenti ale S . B oni aczz rin ed b An on ose h f , p t y t J p Binterim in his Denkwii rdi keiten der christ-katholi schen i ra!re g K , v , 3 - n in i s r en orm r Ma ence . 0 6 ca no t es be ea lier ( y , pp 43 43 , t p t f e her i ub n than the ninth century . Wh t ts s sta ce may be in part de ri d rom th ea chin s of Boni ace has been a ma er of di c i n ve f e t g f tt s uss o . B ‘ H . as er chleben Die ussordnun en de ab andi W . s F . W s , g r endl schen n 2 P H. Kijlb a tl i Hall . 8 . h Kirche ( e, p 9 , ; , S mm ic e S chr flen des R i on 1 ii heili en Boni acius ( a sb 8 . f. H . S chmi z Die g f t , , pp 439 ; J t , nd di Bussdi sci li n der i r he i Ma n Bussbiiche a e c e ce . r p K , ( y , p 745 . August Nii rnberger publishes from Vatican manuscripts some doc ‘ inal ra m n a cribed to Boni ace P r e s s . ro ram des b i l at t f g t f g m k n g . k hol i schen G mnasiums z u Neisse 1 8 Neisse ii n y , 7 ( , pp . xv 3 . O e of these fragments is highly in teres ting to students of the tradition of the R man a i o exempl vi rtut s . 2 irs ublished b Nicolaus Serarius E istola B oni n F t p y , p e S . fac — Mo n . 2 2 2 u tiae . ( g , pp 33 5 3 ilhelm a enbach Deutschland G W W tt , s eschichtsquellen im Mittei in i alter th cd. Berl 1 0 . 1 (7 , , 9 4 , pp 47 , 433 . 4 Classi corum A uctom m e Vaticanis Codi cibus editorum Tomas VII m e — Ro 8 . ( , pp . 475 54 INTRODUCTION 1 3 be assigned without hesitati on to the period of the ’ l author s teachi ng activity at Nhutscelle . The work is li all D 2 wholly based on ear er writers , above onatus ; but the material is revised with a view to the practical 3 needs of teacher and scholar . The fragments on metres 4 probably date from the 5 I same period . They appear to be based largely on si l 6 dore of Sevil e . Of the poems the most important is a series of r 88 twenty riddles on the vi tues and vices , in 3 hexa r fir 1 6 1 r mete s . John Allen Giles published the st ve ses in from a manuscript in the B ritish Museum ; and the whole poem , from a Cambridge manuscript , in The best edition is by Ernst Diimml er 9 (Bero i r lin , The iddles cannot be said to possess 1 Pa e belo imbued i h the elo uence of the art of g 33 , w w t q amm ar gr .
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