Peter of Cornwall's Book of revelations / by Robert Easting and Richard Sharpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peter, of Cornwall, approximately 1140-1221.

Contributor:

Easting, Robert.

Sharpe, Richard, 1954-2020.

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.

Lambeth Palace Library.

Series:

Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) ; 184.

British writers of the Middle Ages and the early modern period ; 5.

Arab history and civilization

British writers of the Middle Ages and the early modern period ; 5

Standardized Title:

Liber revelationum. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Visions--Early works to 1800.

Visions.

Private revelations--Early works to 1800.

Private revelations.

Peter, of Cornwall, approximately 1140-1221.

Peter.

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Visions--History of doctrines.

England.

Visions--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Mysticism--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Mysticism.

History.

Mysticism--Middle Ages.

Visions in literature.

Voyages to the otherworld in literature.

Purgatory in literature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 615 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Book of revelations

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, [2013]

Language Note:

Texts in Latin with English translations on facing pages; introduction and critical studies in English.

Summary:

This volume succeeds admirably as an introduction to the works of Peter of Cornwall, prior of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, London (c. 1140-1221), with a particular focus on his monumental Liber Reuelationum, preserved uniquely in London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 51. The authors blend the old with the new in a series of revised articles and a large selection of editions, translations and discussions of unpublished texts, some unique to the Lambeth manuscript. The heart of this study is the publication of the Calendar, which documents the contents of the entire collection of the Liber Reuelationum. It offers an indispensable guide to the source texts available to Peter and provides access to hundreds of often macabre but edifying tales that remain unedited. Its value as a finding tool is enhanced by three indices that enable the reader to search the Calendar by author, work, and name. In the course of illuminating the various contexts of Peter's writings, the authors control an impressive span of interdisciplinary scholarship, which ranges over Irish and English monastic records, biblical scholarship, social history, vision literature, and the Cistercian Order in England and on the Continent. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Life and Writings of Peter of Cornwall 1

2 Liber Reuelationum: Introduction and Peter's Prologue 35

Text and Translation 74

3 Peter of Cornwall's Account of St Patrick's Purgatory 116

Text and Translation 130

4 The Visions of Ailsi 142

Text and Translation 186

5 Visions at the Cistercian Abbey of Ham, Essex 216

Text and Translation 226

6 Visions at Lessness, Kent 254

Text and Translation 26o

7 Other Tales Told by Peter of Cornwall 268

Text and Translation 28o

8 The Manuscript of Liber Reuelationum 342

Calendar of Liber Reuelationum, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 51 355

Book One 357

Book Two 395.

Notes:

In addition to the Liber revelationum, this edition includes several other works by Peter of Cornwall: his Account of St Patrick's Purgatory; the Visions of Ailsi; Visions at the Cistercian Abbey of Ham, Essex; Visions at Lessness, Kent; and other tales told by Peter of Cornwall.

Liber revelationum edited from the single extant manuscript, London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 51.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [551]-572) and indexes.

Contains:

Peter, of Cornwall, approximately 1140-1221. Liber revelationum.

ISBN:

9780888441843

0888441843

OCLC:

827828639