Osbern of Canterbury - Writings

Writings

  • Vita S. Alphegi et de translatione S. Alphegi ("Life and Translation of St Ælfheah"), in prose. It was written at Lanfranc's request, about 1080 when there arose some dispute concerning Ælfheah's sanctity. See the remarks in William of Malmesbury's Gesta Pontificum.
    • Rumble, Alexander R. (ed.) and R. Morris and A. R. Rumble (trs.) (1994). "Translatio Sancti Ælfegi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi et martiris (BHL 2519)". In Alexander R. Rumble. The Reign of Cnut: King of England, Denmark and Norway. Studies in the Early History of Britain. London: Leicester UP. pp. 283–315.
    • Patrologia Latina 149. 371-393. Available from Documenta Catholica Omnia
    • Wharton, Henry (ed.), "Osberno, ‘Vita s. Alphegi archiepiscopi Cantuariensis’." Anglia Sacra 2 (1691): 122–48.
    • Acta Sanctorum, April 2. 631.
    • Mabillon, "Acta Sanctorum. O.S. B", saec. Vi, 104;
  • Vita S. Dunstani (Life of Dunstan) and Liber Miraculorum Sancti Dunstani, written in 1070 or after Lanfranc's death. Based on earlier Life by author 'B'.
    • Stubbs, W. (ed.). Memorials of St Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury. Rolls Series 63. London, 1874. 68–164.
    • Mabillon op. cit., saec. V, 644-84; in "Acta SS.", May 4, 359; in Patrologia Latina 137. 407. The life given in Mabillon, op. cit. (p. 684), is probably the work of Eadmer.
  • Vita S. Odonis archiepiscopi Cantuariensis. From William of Malmesbury's Gesta Pontificum we learn that Osbern wrote a life of Odo, but the work has now perished.
  • (Henry Wharton, in his Anglia Sacra (London, 1691), 75-87, published a life of St. Bregwin which was wrongly attributed to Osbern).
  • In addition, two letters which he wrote to Anselm abbot of Bec, probably about 1093, are preserved.
    • Schmitt, F.S. (ed). S. Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi opera omnia. 6 vols. 1938–61.

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