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Thomas Head Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY A Guide to the Sources of Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography Compiled by Thomas Head Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Contents: 1) The primary sources ; 2) Guides to the saints ; 3) Guides to hagiographic literature ; 4) Guides to iconography ; 5) General works in hagiographic scholarship ; 6) Some useful catalogues of manuscripts . 1. The primary sources. 1/1. Some major collections of hagiographic sources. Sanctuarium seu Vitae sanctorum , ed. Boninus Mombritius (Bonino Mombrizio), 2 vols. (Milan, ca. 1477; reprint edition, Paris, 1910). De probatis sanctorum historiis ed. Laurentius Surius (Laurence Suhr), 6 vols. and index (first edition, Cologne, 1570-75; second edition, 1576-1581; third edition, Venice, 1581). Fourth editon: De probatis sanctorum vitis , 12 volumes (Cologne, 1618). Fifth edition: Historiae seu Vitae sanctorum . , 13 vols. (Marieta, 1875-1880). (Organized by liturgical calendar.) Acta primorum martyrym sincera et selecta . , ed. Th. Ruinart (Paris, 1689). Second edition: Antwerp, 1713. Third edition: Verona, 1731. Fourth edition: Augsburg, 1802-3. Fifth edition: Regensburg, 1859. Acta Sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur , eds. Jean Bolland, et al, (original ed., 67 vols., Antwerp and Brussels, 1643-1940; second edition, 43 vols., Venice; third edition, 60 vols., Paris). (Organized by liturgical calendar.) Standard abbreviation: AASS. Acta Sanctorum ordinis Sancti Benedicti , eds. Luc d'Achéry and Jean Mabillon, first ed., 6 vols. in 9 (Paris, 1668-1701; partial reprint edition, Brussels, 1935). (Organized by century of the "Order of St. Benedict": the first volume covers the sixth century, the sixth volume the eleventh.) Standard abbeviation: AASSOB. 1/2. Other standard collections of medieval sources which include hagiographic material. Latin: J. P. Migne (ed.), Patrologiae cursus completus: Series latina , 221 volumes (Paris, 1841- 64) [=PL]. More recent editions of many of the works contained in this collection may be found in the following ongoing series: Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum (Vienna) [=CSEL]; Corpus christianorum, series latina [=CCSL], Corpus christianorum, series graeca [=CCSG], Corpus christianorum, Continuatio mediaevalis [=CCCM](all published in Turnhout); Sources chrétiennes [=SC] (Paris). Greek: J. P. Migne (ed.), Patrologiae cursus completus: Series graeca , 176 volumes (Paris, 1857- 1876) [=PG]. Also see Sources chrétiennes (Paris). Italy: Italia sacra, sive De episcopis italiae ad insularum adjacentium , ed. Ferdinando Ughelli, 9 vols. (Rome, 1644-62; revised edition in 10 volumes, Venice, 1717-22; reprint, 1970); Rerum italicarum scriptores ab anno aerae christianae quingentesimo ad millesimum quingentesimum , eds. Ludovico Muratori, et al., 25 vols. in 28 (Milan, 1723-1751); Rerum italicarum scriptores. Racolta deglli storici italiani dal cinquecento al millecinquecento , eds. G. Carducci and V. Fiorini [revised edition of previous known as the "New Muratori"] (Cittá di Castello and Bologna, 1900-present); Fonti per storia d'Italia (Rome, 1887-present). Iberia: España sagrada , eds. Enrique Florez, et al., 58 vols. (Madrid, 1747-1954); Portugaliae Monumenta historica a saeculo octavo post Christum usque ad quintum decimum , 6 volumes (Lisbon, 1856-97). France: Gallia christiana , second edition, 16 volumes (Paris, 1715-1785); Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France , ed. M. Bouquet et al., 24 volumes (Paris, 1738-1833; reedition, 1896- 1904). Also texts published in Chartes et diplômes relatifs à l'Histoire de France ; Collection des documents inédits relatifs à l'Histoire de France ; Classiques de l'Histoire de France au Moyen Age . Germany and Empire: Monumenta Germaniae historica (Hannover and Berlin, 1826-present), particularly the Scriptores rerum Merivingicarum and the Scriptores in folio for hagiographic works. The Germania sacra , 3 vols. in 5 (Berlin, 1929-41) and Germania sacra. Neue Folge , 28 vols. (Berlin, 1962-present) also contain material of interest. England: Rerum britannicarum medii aevi scriptores (Rolls Series), 99 volumes in 253 (London, 1858-1896). Also texts published by the Camden Society, the Early English Text Society, Nelson's Medieval Texts, and Oxford Medieval Texts. Byzantium and the Latin east: Corpus scriptorum historiae byzantinae , 50 volumes (Bonn, 1828- 97); Corpus fontium historiae byzantinae (Washington and Berlin, 1967-present); Recueil des historiens des Croisades: Historiens occidentaux , 5 vols. (Paris, 1841-95). 1/3 .The Bollandist repertories. Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae aetatis . 3 vols. (Subsidia hagiographica, 6 and 70; Brussels, 1898 and 1986). Standard abbreviation: BHL. Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca , revised edition (Subsidia hagiographica, 8a; Brussels, 1957). Also see François Halkin, Novum auctarium Bibliothecae hagiographicae graecae , (Subsidia hagiographica, 65; Brussels, 1984). Standard abbreviation: BHG. Bibliothecae hagiographicae orientalis (Subsidia hagiographica, 10; Brussels, 1910). Standard abbreviation: BHO. 1/4. Other guides to Latin and Greek hagiographic sources. Hagiographies. Histoire internationale de la littérature hagiographique, latine et vernaculaire, en Occident, des origines à 1550 , ed. Guy Philippart, 4 vols. (Turnhout: Brepols, 1994-present). The organization of the whole work is a combination of period and region: the articles included in each volume, however, are in order of preparation. Lists of vitae : Eligius Dekkers, "Vitae Sanctorum," Clavis Patrum Latinorum (Sacris Erudiri , 3; Bruges and The Hague, 1951), pp. 357-84 (organized geographically; covers roughly from the Acts of the Martyrs to Bede; based largely on the BHL ); "Biographies spirituelles," Dictionnaire de spiritualité , (Paris, 1937-present), 1:1646-78 (organized by century). Sources from Francia: Ferdinand Lot, et al., "Vitae, Passiones, Miracula, Translationes sanctorum Galliae (500-1000)," Archivum latinitatis medii aevi , 14 (1939), pp. 183-225) and "Vitae, Passiones, Miracula, Translationes sanctorum Galliae necnon alia opera hagiographica saeculum XI in Gallia exarata (a. 1000-1108)," Archivum latinitatis medii aevi , 18 (1943), pp. 5- 39. Sources from modern Belgium: Index Scriptorum operumque latino-belgicorum medii aevi: Nouveau Répertoire des oeuvres médiolatines belges , eds. Léopold Genicot and P. Tombeur, 3 vols. in 4 (1973-present). Contains separate listing of hagiographic souces from the seventh through the twelfth centuries. Sources from Celtic lands: Michael Lapidge and Richard Sharpe, A Bibliography of Celtic-Latin Literature, 400-1200 (Dublin, 1985). Lists of canonization processus: André Vauchez, "Les procès de canonisation," in La sainteté en occident aux derniers siècles du moyen âge d'après les procès de canonisation et les documents hagiographiques (Rome, 1981), pp. 655-65. (Organized first by sub-genre and then chronologically.) Lives in Byzantium and the Latin east: J. W. Nesbit, "A geographical and chronological guide to Greek saints' lives," Orientalia christiana periodica , 35 (1969), 24-46; Charles Kohler, "Rerum et Personarum quae in Actis Sanctorum Bollandistis et Analectis Bollandianis obvie ad orientem latinum spectant. Index Analiticus," in Revue de L'orient latin , 5 (1897), pp. 460-561. Lists of relic translations: Henri Fros, "Liste des translations et inventions de l'époque carolingienne," Analecta Bollandiana , 104 (1986), pp. 427-9 and Patrick Geary, "Handlist of Relic Thefts (ca. 800-ca. 1100)," in Furta Sacra. Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (Princeton, 1978; second edition 1990), pp. 149-56. Both are organized alphabetically by saint. 1/5. Guides to hagiographic sources in vernacular languages. Old French: Paul Meyer, "Légendes hagiographiques en français," Histoire littéraire de France , vol. 33 (Paris, 1906), pp. 328-458 and Robert Bossuat, Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française du Moyen Age , one volume with three supplements (Paris, 1951-86), consult indices under "saint." Also see Jean-Pierre Perrot, Le passionaire français au moyen âge (Publications Romanes et Françaises, 200; Geneva, 1992). Old Provençal: Clovis Brunel, Bibliographie des manuscrits littéraires en ancien provença l (Paris, 1935). Italian: see the discussion of resources in Jacques Dalarun, Claudio Leonardi, and François Dolbeau, "Pour une 'Biblioteca agiographica italiana,'" Hagiographica , 1 (1994). Anglo-Saxon: see the discussion of resources in E. Gordon Whatley, "Hagiography in Anglo- Saxon England: a Prelliminary View from SASLC ," Old English Newsletter , 23 (1990), pp. 36- 46, as well as the articles by Cross and Whatley in the second volume of Hagiographies . Middle English: Charlotte d'Evelyn and Frances Foster, "Saints' Legends," in A Manual of Writings in Middle English 1050-1500 , ed. J. Burke Sevens (New Haven, 1970), 2:410-81 and 553-649; M. Görlach, "Middle English Legends, 1220-1530," in Hagiographies. Histoire internationale de la littérature hagiographique, latine et vernaculaire, en Occident, des origines à 1550 , ed. Guy Philippart, 4 vols. (Turnhout: Brepols, 1994-present), 1:429-86. Anglo-Norman: M. Thiry-Stassin, "L'hagiographie en Anglo-Normand," in Hagiographies. Histoire internationale de la littérature hagiographique, latine et vernaculaire, en Occident, des origines à 1550 , ed. Guy Philippart, 4 vols. (Turnhout: Brepols, 1994-present), 1: 407-28. Old Irish: C. Plummer, "A Tentative Catalogue of Irish Hagiography," in idem, Miscellanea Hagiographica Hibernica (Subsidia Hagiographica, 15;
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