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15 - The Legendary of Saint Peter's basilica

Hagiographic traditions and innovations in the late eleventh century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2013

Rosamond McKitterick
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
John Osborne
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa
Carol M. Richardson
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Joanna Story
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
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Preserved amongst the manuscripts once housed in the Archivio of the Basilica of Saint Peter and now kept at the Vatican Library is a large hagiographic collection that stretches over a period from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. The four grand volumes of San Pietro Legendary (SPL) were put together from several, perhaps numerous sources. Among these may have been earlier passionaries or legendaries, individual libelli, such as the one for Saint Denis of Paris, and perhaps other types of written documents. But the SPL was compiled not only to supply the readings for the night Office at the Vatican basilica, but also, as the comparison with A 3 has shown, as a summa of hagiographic texts which embodied the traditions of Saint Peter's over many centuries as they were shaped particularly by the goals of the Reform papacy.
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Print publication year: 2013

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