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Die Heiligen Englands: Angels\u00e4chsisch und Lateinisch (in German). Hanover.Period coveredAnglo-Saxon EnglandOn the Resting-Places of the Saints is a heading given to two early medieval pieces of writing, also known as \u00de\u00e1 h\u00e1lgan and the Secgan, which exist in various manuscript forms in both Old English and Latin, the earliest surviving manuscripts of which date to the mid-11th century.  Secgan is so named from its Old English incipit, Secgan be \u00feam Godes sanctum \u00fee on Engla lande aerost reston “Tale of God’s saints who first rested in England”), and is a list of fifty places which had shrines and remains of Anglo-Saxon saints.  \u00de\u00e1 h\u00e1lgan (pronounced thar halgan) is a version of the so-called Kentish Royal Legend (its incipit Her cy\u00f0 ymbe \u00fea halgan \u00fee on Angelcynne resta\u00f0 “Here [follows] a relation on the saints who rest in the English nation”) is a heading which appears to be for both texts, as the Kentish legend, which comes first, is actually an account of how various members of the royal family of Kent, descendants of \u00c6thelberht of Kent, founded monasteries and came to be regarded as saints. As such it is closer to other hagiographical texts than to the list of burial sites that follows it. The texts describe people living from the 7th to 10th centuries, and they exist in both Old English and Latin versions, but both have their earliest known manuscripts dating from the 11th century.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsThe Manuscripts[edit]\u00de\u00e1 h\u00e1lgan[edit]List of the Saints and their resting places[edit]Notes on the list[edit]See also[edit]References[edit]Bibliography[edit]External links[edit]The Manuscripts[edit]The two texts now known as ‘\u00de\u00e1 h\u00e1lgan’ and ‘Secgan’ are known from two extant manuscripts written in Old English, that were transcribed in the 11th century. The manuscript known as Stowe MS 944, (folia 29v-39r), the older of the two, is thought to have been written shortly after 1031. Rollason (1978) argues that  the scribe was including material dating to as early as the mid 9th century (for example the reference to Ubbanford).       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Stowe MS 944 is a bound volume now in the British Library, the full scanned images of which are at British Library Online.[2] It begins with a history of Hyde Abbey, Winchester, written in 1771, followed by a wide collection of much older original source documents. A selection of medieval drawings, is followed by a Liber vitae, written in 1031 consisting of lists of names of brethren and benefactors of the New Minster, also at Winchester, and substantially annotated. Other historiographical texts follow, including the will of King \u00c6lfred.[3] The two documents being considered here, originally composed entirely separately, were then written into the same Old English manuscript, under a combined heading of ‘On the Resting-Places of the Saints’. However, it is the second document (‘Secgan’) which provided the list of saints. The first, (‘\u00de\u00e1 h\u00e1lgan’) includes mention of many saints, particularly those relating to Kent, but written as part of a narrative of the Kentish Royal Legend.Her Cy\u00f0ymbe \u00fea halgan \u00fee on Angel cynne resta\u00f0: a treatise on the family of the Kentish kings, their holy character and works (ff. 34v-36v).Her onygyn\u00f0 secgean be \u00feam Godes s[an]c[tu]m \u00fee on engla lande \u00e6rest reston: a treatise, in continuation of the preceding, showing the places, with their adjacent waters, in England, and one place in Ireland, where the Saints’ remains are deposited (ff. 36v-39r).CCCC 201: The two documents are found in substantially the same (but not identical) form in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (CCCC 201, pp.\u00a0149\u2013151). CCCC 201 is a substantial 3-volume set of manuscripts, with 96 constituent pieces of writing, in various ‘hands’ (different people’s handwriting). Mostly written in Old English, it begins with Homilies of St Wolfstan.[4]Vitellius D: A third OE version was in the Cotton library’s Vitellius D. xvii. Unfortunately this volume was destroyed in the fire of 1731.Vitellius A3: This is one of several Latin translations of the Old English texts. It survived the 1731 fire and is now in the British Library’s Cotton Vitellius A 3 ff3-5. Both extant OE texts and this Latin version were  published by Felix Liebermann as Die Heiligen Englands: Angels\u00e4chsisch unt Lateinisch, a German volume published in 1889, which is still the only scholarly published version of these texts.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4\u00de\u00e1 h\u00e1lgan[edit]\u00de\u00e1 h\u00e1lgan (\u02c8\u03b8\u0251\u02d0 \u02c8h\u0251\u02d0lg\u0251n) is a version of a wider group of texts on the Kentish Royal Legend, and deals with the earliest Christian kings of Kent and their families, and their pious acts, starting with the baptism of king \u00c6thelberht of Kent by Augustine in AD 597.[7] The text traces four generations after \u00c6thelberht, spanning the 7th century and thus the entire period of the Christianization of England. In addition to the extensive genealogy, (in which members of the family marry into the royal families of Mercia, Northumbria and East Anglia) it has an account of the foundation of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, bound up with the lives of two murdered brothers \u00c6thelred and \u00c6thelberht, the founding Abbess at Thanet, Domne Eafe, and her daughter saint Mildthryth.The particular version of the Legend that accompanies the list of saints below mentions many Kentish saints and their resting places, and thus complements well the Secgan list, which has very few entries from that area. It is possible that a compiler had access to a specifically Kentish list that he drew on while collating his material. In addition to those mentioned above, \u00de\u00e1 h\u00e1lgan notes \u00c6thelburh of Kent (who rests at Lyminge), Eanswith (Folkestone), Eormengyth (near Thanet), Ermenilda (Ely), Seaxburh (Ely), \u00c6thelthryth (Ely), Werburgh (Hanbury, then Chester), Eorcengota (overseas).The Secgan (abbreviated R.P.S. in the Oxford Dictionary of Saints) is a list of 54 places in England where saints’ remains are deposited, listing a total of 89 saints, of whom 79 were active in England.  The list is itemized with a formulaic \u00d0onne, e.g. \u00d0onne reste\u00f0 sanctus Congarus confessor on Cungresbirig (37b, “then, St Congar the confessor rests in Congresbury”)in many cases the site is further identified by a topographical feature, mostly a river, e.g.\u00d0onne reste\u00f0 sanctus Iohannes biscop on \u00feare stowe Beferlic, neah \u00feare ea Hul (5a, “then, St John the bishop rests at the site Beverley, near the River Hull”). In addition to the two Old English versions, there are a larger number of manuscripts with the same, or very similar material in Latin. Some of these appear to be direct translations of these known OE lists, while others are from earlier, or divergent lists as the names and places do not have a match in every instance. The list below summarises the names and places from both the Old English lists, and the Latin Secgan of Liebermann’s ‘V’ manuscript.List of the Saints and their resting places[edit]Notes on the list[edit]^ Liebermann, 1889, numbers the paragraphs of the Secgan, starting with the title as number 1. Some paragraphs have several locations, denoted #b etc. Several of the locations have more than one saint buried at them. Each different saint has an asterisk bullet point at the start.^ Body and sword arm at Bamburgh, Head with St Cuthbert, left arm at Gloucester^ OE: \u00feonne reste\u00f0 Sancte Oswald cyningc on Bebbanbyrig wi\u00f0 \u00fea s\u01e3, and his heafod reste\u00f0 mid sancte Cu\u00f0berhte, and his swyr\u00f0a earma is n\u00fa on Bebbanbyrig and his lichama reste\u00f0 nu on niwan mynstre on Gleaweceastre.^ OE: Sancta Ecgbriht, sancte Wilfer\u00f0, biscop, sancte Wihtburh. Latin: Sanctusque Ecgbertus, sanctus Wilfridus, episcopus, sanctaque Eihtbuerga^ OE: Sancte Ceadda, sancte Cedde, sancte Ceatta. Latin: Sanctusque Ceadda, sanctus Cedde, sanctus Ceatta^ Sancte \u00c6\u00feered, se cyningc, Sancte Ostry\u00f0, sancte Oswoldes. Latin: sanctus \u00c6\u00f0\u00e6lredus rex^ Botolph occurs twice in this list, the other under his well attested location as Botwulf of Thorney. Medeshamstede is a well attested earlier name for Peterborough – which also has entries under its later name of ‘Burh’. Thorney is close to, but not the same place as Burh. It is not clear if this entry refers to the same saint using an earlier location name, the same saint divided between two locations, or two different individuals.^ OE adds something to the effect that ‘Though they are hidden from the people, not all the holy people have works of wonder'(?)^ Monastery of the Apostles Peter and Paul^ Those in brackets are only listed by the CCCC text. Stowe MS 944 and the Latin V simply allude to ‘many others with them’.^ CCCC OE includes the two in brackets, and mentions ‘and fela o\u00f0ra helgan’ – many other saints.^ From here on, the order of the two OE texts diverges. This list follows the CCCC Old English order, as set out by Heilemann, 1889, re-ordering the matching entries from the other texts accordingly.^ William of Malmsbury claimed that this referred to Iohannes Erigena; but this is now thought to have been an error by William, and that another saint named John the Wise was being referred to.^ Translation needs checkingSee also[edit]References[edit]^ British Library Digitised Manuscript: Stowe MS 944 has the full manuscript pages online.^ British Library Catalogue of IlluminatedManuscripts: Detailed record for Stowe MS 944, accessed 6 November 2014^ A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, M R James, 1912, Cambridge University Press, vol 1, Nos 1-250. Ms 201 is itemised on pp.485-491. Accessed 7 November 2014^ The version of Cotton Caligula A. xiv was translated into modern English by Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England, 3 vols, The Rolls Series, 35 (London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1864\u201368), iii pp. 422\u201329.Bibliography[edit]G. Hickes, Dissertatio Epistolaris in Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archeologicus (Oxford 1703-05), p.\u00a0115Liebermann, Felix (1889). Die Heiligen Englands: Angels\u00e4chsisch und Lateinisch (in German). Hanover. Retrieved 28 October 2014. (Contains the full text of both \u00de\u00e1 h\u00e1lgan and Secgan in Old English and Latin. Available in various digital formats via archive.org)Susan J. Ridyard, The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England: A Study of West Saxon and East Anglican Cults, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 1988.Rollason, D. W. (1978). “Lists of saints’ resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England”. Anglo-Saxon England. 7: 61\u201393. doi:10.1017\/S0263675100002866..David Hugh Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford Paperback Reference, Publisher Oxford University Press, 1992, 2004.External links[edit]     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/on-the-resting-places-of-the-saints\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"On the Resting-Places of the Saints"}}]}]