Liber miraculorum Sancte Fidis
Contributors: Bernardus, scholasticus, fl. 1010-1020.
Publisher: Société des Amis de la Bibliothèque Humaniste de Sélestat
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Sélestat
Language: lat
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Foy, Saint, ca. 290-303.; Bibliothèque humaniste de Sèlestat (France); Christian child saints -- France -- Conques -- Biography.; Miracles -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- France -- Sèlestat -- Facsimiles.; Conques (Aveyron, France) -- Religious life and customs.; France -- Religious life and customs.
Genres: Biography.; Sources.; Facsimiles.
Other titles: Liber miracvlorvm Sce Fidis; 1094-1994; Paschalis ep̄s serus seruorum dei dilecto in xp̄o filio Begoni monasterii b'e fidis ...
Notes: Full-color facsim.
Title from decoration stamped on cover of the ms. codex and reproduced on cover of the facsimile; imprint from colophon.
"1094-1994 : Ce précieux codex manuscrit latin du XIe au XIVe siècle, comprenant principalement le récit des miracles de Sainte Foy de Conques ... a été édité à l'occasion du neuvième centenaire du Prieuré de Sainte Foy à Sélestat par les Amis de la Bibliothèque humaniste."--Colophon.
Includes music (from neumes in campo aperto to plainchant on 4-bar staff).
Besides a very complete version of the work known as Liber miraculorum Sanctae Fidis, by Bernard of Angers (Bernardus scholasticus) and unidentified others (leaves 15-104), the ms., here reproduced completely, contains also an anonymous Passio sanctae Fidis and other materials for liturgical celebration of the Saint's feasts.
On leaf 1a, copy of undated breve of Pope Paschal [II?] addressed to Abbott Bego of St. Foy Abbey in Conques; init.: "Paschalis ep[isco]p[u]s serus seruo[rum] dei dilecto in xp̄o [= Christo] filio Begoni monasterii b[eate] fidis co[n]chensis abb[at]i ..."
Catalog of books held by the Sélestat church of St. Foy, of 1296: leaf 14a.
Leaves 109-116 are a gathering detached from a noted Breviary (12th cent.?); it contains part of the Common of the Saints and a large portion of the office for the anniversary of the dedication of a church, all with staffless neumatic notation for the chanted parts.