The Bollandists, Acta Sanctorum Martii, vol. iii, (Antwerp, 1668), pp. 117–24
Genre
prose hagiography
Subject
Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne and Anglo-Saxon saint (died 687)
Setting
Northumbria
Period covered
7th century
The Vita Sancti Cuthberti (English: "Life of Saint Cuthbert") is a prose hagiography from early medieval Northumbria. It is probably the earliest extant saint's life from Anglo-Saxon England, and is an account of the life and miracles of Cuthbert (died 687), a Bernician hermit-monk who became bishop of Lindisfarne. Surviving in eight manuscripts from Continental Europe, it was not as well read in the Middle Ages as the prose version by Bede. It was however Bede's main source for his two dedicated works on Cuthbert, the "Metrical Life" and the "Prose Life".
It was completed soon after the translation of Cuthbert's body in 698, at some point between 699 and 705. Compiled from oral sources available in Bernicia at the time of its composition, the Vita nonetheless utilized previous Christian writing from the Continent, particularly Gregory the Great's Dialogi and Sulpicius Severus' Vita Sancti Martini, as powerful influences. The name of the author is not known, though he was a monk of the monastery of Lindisfarne. It is often called the Anonymous Life to distinguish it from the "Prose Life" and the "Metrical Life" of Bede. There are four modern editions of the Anonymous Life, the latest by historian Bertram Colgrave.
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The VitaSanctiCuthberti (English: "Life of Saint Cuthbert") is a prose hagiography from early medieval Northumbria. It is probably the earliest extant...
early 8th-centuries, along with the anonymous VitaSanctiCuthberti, the works of Bede and Adomnán's VitaSancti Columbae, that detail the Christianisation...
writing the VitaSancti Wilfrithi, but scholars have several theories. It has been argued that Stephen's use of lines from VitaSanctiCuthberti was a way...
September 4 and in the Roman Catholic Church in England on September 4. VitaSanctiCuthberti Historia de Sancto Cuthberto St Cuthbert's Well in Bellingham, Northumberland...
of nineteen of the manuscripts is Werner Jaager, Bedas metrische VitaSanctiCuthberti (1935). Life of St. Cuthbert (prose) Bede wrote two lives of St...
G. F. (1999). "Les éditions". In Diercks, G. F. (ed.). Sancti Cypriani Episcopi Opera. Sancti Cypriani Episcopi Epistolarium. Prolegomena: Codices, Editiones...
scribes using an Anglo-Celtic hand, and including most notably Bede's VitaSanctiCuthberti. This volume was composed in South West England, perhaps at Glastonbury...
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum etc. Anonymous, VitaSanctiCuthberti Stephen of Ripon, VitaSancti Wilfrithi Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum...
appears to have relied upon the Libellus while writing his prose VitaSanctiCuthberti in about the year 720. Where Bede acquired his copy of the Libellus...
that of Bede’s Vita S. Cuthberti, which, like the Vita S. Aethelwoldi, contains 46 chapters. Some events described in Wulfstan’s Vita are very similar...
that existed in that uncultivated solitude. Reginald of Durham, Vita et miracula Sancti Godrici The details of his life are uncertain, but he was "apparently...
found complete in 33 manuscripts and fragmentarily in 10); the metrical VitaSancti Cudbercti ("Life of St Cuthbert"); and two collections of verse mentioned...
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