Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury saints etc; charters and privileges allegedly granted to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury
Agent
Preferred form
Augustin (saint, 05.. ?-0604 ?)
Original form
Augustine of Canterbury, d 604, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury
Contents:ff. 2r–v: Charter of Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury
(between 597-604), granting privileges to the Benedictine monastery
of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine’s, Canterbury). ff.
3r–18v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (Canterbury), Historia minor de
adventu sancti Augustini , preceded by a prologue (f. 3r) and
capitula (f. 3r-4v). ff. 18v–23v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin,
Historia miracula et translatio sancti Augustini . ff. 26r–60r:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Historia maior de adventu sancti
Augustini , preceded by a prologue (ff. 26r-27r) and capitula (ff.
27r-29v). ff. 61r–85v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Historia maior
de miraculis sancti Augustini , preceded by capitula (ff. 61r-v).
ff. 86r–93v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Sermo in festivitate
sancti Augustini Anglorum apostoli . ff. 93v–141v: Goscelin of
Saint-Bertin, Historia translationis sancti Augustini , preceded by
a prologue (ff. 93v-94r) and capitula (ff. 94r-95v), the two books
are preceded by prologues, prologue of book 1 (f. 125v) and
prologue of book 2 (ff. 125v-141v). ff. 143r–163v: Goscelin of
Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Mildrethae virginis , preceded by a
prologue (f. 143r) and capitula (ff. 143r-144r). ff. 163v–166r:
Lectiones in festivitate virginis Mildrethe . ff. 166r–196v:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Translatio Sanctae Mildrethae virginis
cum miraculorum attestatione , preceded by capitula (ff.
166r-167r). ff. 197r–248v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the
early archbishops of Canterbury and of Abbot Hadrian including
Relatio venerabilis Bede presbiteri de sanctissimo Christi
confessore Laurentio Anglorum archiepiscopo (ff. 197r-203); the
Vita Sancti Melliti (ff. 203r-212v); the Vita Sancti Iusti (ff.
214r-217r); the Vita Sancti Honorii (ff. 217r-220r); the Vita
Sancti Deusdedit (ff. 220r-221v); the Vita Sancti Theodori (ff.
222r-231r); the Vita Sancti Adriani (ff. 233r-241v) and the
Translatio Sancti Adriani (ff. 241v-248v). ff. 251v–259v: Gregory
the Great, Libellus responsionum followed by an epitaph for St
Augustine. ff. 260r–276r: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Libellus
contra usurpatores Sancte Mildrethe , preceded by capitula (ff.
260r-v) and a prologue (f. 261r). ff. 276r-279r: Series of spurious
charters allegedly granted to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine
(originally St Peter and St Paul) (see Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters
(1968), nos. 1048, 1244, 4, 3), it includes: a charter of King
Edward the Confessor of England (reigned 1042-1066) granting land
to the Benedictine abbey of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine
abbey, Canterbury), written by a 15th-century hand (ff. 276r-v); a
charter of King Æthelberht I of Kent (reigned 560-616) granting
land to the Benedictine abbey of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine
abbey, Canterbury) (ff. 277r-v); a charter of King Æthelberht I
for the Benedictine abbey of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine
abbey, Canterbury) (ff. 277v-279r). ff. 279r-284v: Series of
spurious privileges allegedly granted to the Benedictine abbey of
St Augustine (originally St Peter and St Paul) (see Ambrose, 'the
Social Context and Cultural Complexities of Goscelin' (2012),
367-68), it includes: a privilege of Pope Boniface IV (between
608-15) for King Æthelberht of Kent, 27 February 611 (ff.
279r-280v); a privilege of Pope Adeodatus (between 672-76) for
Abbot Hadrian of St Augustine’s (between 669/70-708), 23 December
(673) (ff. 280v-281v); a privilege of Pope Agatho (between 678-81)
for Abbot Hadrian of St Augustine’s, 15 May 679 ( ff. 281v-282r);
a privilege of Pope John XII (between 955-63) addressed to King
Eadred of England (between 946-55), 22 April (?956) (ff.
282r-283r); a privilege of Pope John (between 955-63) for King
Eadred (between 946-55) and Archbishop Oda of Canterbury (between
941-58), (?956) (ff. 283r-284r); a privilege of Pope Calixtus II
(between 1119-24) for Abbot Hugh de Flori of St Augustine’s,
Canterbury (d. 1126), 1120 (imperfect) (f. 284v).ff. 285r–286v:
An added miracle of St Augustine of Canterbury written by a
13h-century English hand. f. 286v: Added, 16th century, Versus de
Sancta Maria matre Christi in ecclesia Augustini . Decoration:Large
decorated initials in purple, red, green and/or blue with interlace
(ff. 2r, 5v, 30r, 62r passim). Display initials in blue, red and
purple (ff. 2r, 5v, 30r). Secondary initials in blue, red and
green. Capitals in red and green. Rubrics in red. Letters
highlighted in red. A full-page historiated initial 'I' depicting
King Æthelberht I of Kent (reigned 560-616) holding a scroll in
his right hand and a document in his left, sitting on a throne, his
feet on a stool, outlined in purple and ornamented with green, red,
purple, blue and ochre (277r).
