Magna vita S. Hugonis episcopi Lincolniensis. From manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Imperial Library, Paris. Edited by the Rev. James F. Dimock.

London: Longman, [et. al.], 1864. Royal 8vo, pp. 4, lxviii-[lxx], 416, 15 [ads]; ex-library copy with usual markings, hinges cracked, extremities and joints rubbed, crack in lower cover, small cracks in spine ends, else a good, sound copy in contemporary quarter brown cloth over black paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. A life of St. Hugh (ca. 1135-1200), bishop of Lincoln, compiled from a 12th-century manuscript in the Bodleian Library and a 15th-century manuscript from the Imperial Library in Paris. The author of the biography was mostly likely Adam Abbot of Evesham, the domestic chaplain and private confessor of Bishop Hugh. The Life is not only a truthful account of a celebrated ecclesiastic, but provides notices of passing events and individuals active in public affairs. In Latin. Item #13850

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