John Lydgates Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund and the Extra Miracles of St Edmund Kartoniert (TB)

John Lydgate wrote the 'Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund' at the request of his abbot William Curteys to commemorate the stay of the young King Henry VI at the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds from Christmas Eve 1433 to shortly after Easter 1434 when Henry was received into confraternity. The work survives in thirteen manuscripts or fragments and BL MS Harley 2278 on which the present edition of the 'Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund' is based was the copy of the poem presented to Henry VI probably before 1444. The 'Lives' consists of a prologue the Life of St Edmund as books one and two th e Life of St Fremund as book three a conc1uding prayer to St Edmund an envoy and an address to Henry VI. The volume also presents the three texts that make up the 'Extra Miracles of St Edmund' which are found in four of the later manuscripts of the 'Lives' and independently in one manuscript. This edition of the 'Lives of Ss Edmund & Fremund' is the first to establish the text on the basis of the readings of all the manuscripts and is also the first to include the 'Extra Miracles'. The edited texts are followed by a commentary textual notes a glossary of proper names and a selective glossary.