HOLLIS searches for 'Vita Fursei', 'Life of Saint Fursey' and 'Fursey' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Saint%20Fursey&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 return no English translation of the Latin Life. What the catalogue holds instead is Jean Mielot's fifteenth-century French verse Life (Classiques Garnier, 2018), Thomas Messingham's 1624 Latin florilegium, and Late Merovingian France (Manchester Medieval Sources, 1996), whose table of contents includes only the Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano and not the Vita Fursei itself. The Latin text is edited by Krusch in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum IV, where the volume index lists 'Vita Fursei abbatis Latiniacensis' (https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_rer_merov_4/). No English rendering of the whole Life was located in any of the standard series checked.
The Life of Fursey is the earliest sustained narrative of an Irish visionary and the textual root of the Fursey visions that feed into Dante's reception history; it is also a first-order source for Irish monastic foundation in East Anglia and at Peronne. Its vision chapters are routinely quoted in English from secondary literature, never from a translation of the Life itself.
| Edition / series |
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| La genealogie, la vie, les miracles et les merites de saint Foursy · Textes litteraires du Moyen Age 47 · 2018 |
| Source and licence |
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| dmgh · PDF scan · public domain (MGH edition, Krusch) |