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Hagiography

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Lives of Female Saints

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4457
Scope and Contents

An incomplete series of biographies, containing entries from Dympna to Katherine of Sienna.

Dates: 1650 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Souvenir d'une Enfant de Marie

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6471
Scope and Contents

'Souvenir d'une Enfant de Marie', 160 pages: an account of the life of Marie Léonie Hensele of Bailleul, evidently written in the convent of which she had been a member, and dedicated by 'les enfants de Marie à leur bien chère amie Emma Hensele'. There is a table of contents on pp. 151-112. Pp. 87-104 and 133-148 are missing; pp. 105-132 and 149-150 are blank.

Dates: 1855
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Vita S. Gildae

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6317
Scope and Contents

'Vita S. Gildae Abbatis Ruyensis cognomento Sapientis, Auctore Monacho Ruyensi anonymo, qui saeculo undecimo ineunte vixit. Ex MS. cod. Ruyensi prodit integrior', transcribed from Luc D'Achery and Jean Mabillon, Acta sanctorum Ordinis S. Benedicti, Saec. I (Paris, 1668), p. 138, for Henry Bradshaw. The writing is in the hand of A. Rogers. There are 56 folios, with the versos blank throughout.

Dates: 1886 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).