{"product_id":"john-of-tynemouth-based-on","title":"[JOHN OF TYNEMOUTH, based on]","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the most elegant specimens of W. de Worde s press  (Lowndes). Fine, complete copy of the first edition of this 'collection of national saints , with 168 Saint s lives, including the life of Thomas à Beckett, often suppressed. It based on the  Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae  attributed to the C14 chronicler John of Tynemouth, probably based at St Albans Abbey. Derived from the  Sanctilogium  of Guy de Saint-Denis, the latter survives in only one copy (BL Cotton MS Tiberius E.i). The material was rearranged alphabetically   thus turning a devotional into a reference work - by the historian John Capgrave (1393 1464)   an attribution now rejected   with the elimination of some saints, e.g., St Ursula, included in John of Tynemouth s work and de Worde s revision. De Worde s is  a second revision of the  Sanctilogium , which involves the addition of a prologue and a number of saints  Lives, including a new Life of Ursula  (Cartwright, ed., p.154). The work includes saints who lived in late antiquity, down to Anglo-Saxon and medieval times, from the most famous St Alban, the Venerable Bede, St Brendan, St Ursula, St Thomas à Beckett, and St Columba, to lesser known (at least today) figures, including numerous women, such as St Keyna (a 5thC hermitess famous in the South West), Sts Kyneswida, Kyneburga and Tibba (7thC saints from the Mercian royal family), St Ondoceus (a 6thC bishop), and St Modwena (a 7thC nun and Irish noblewoman). Each contains the life, death, miracles, and information about their relics. An important, finely printed work in a handsome copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[JOHN OF TYNEMOUTH, based on]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868711788879,"sku":"L4362a","price":29500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/john-of-tynemouth-based-on","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}