CAMBRAI, Bibliothèque municipale, 0865 - Cogitosus' Life of St Brigit

Try your hand at transcribing the Life of St Brigit!

The copy of the text made available here is from Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, manuscript 865. This manuscript is a compilation of saints' Lives, including Lives of the Irish saints Brigit and Fursa, dating to the tenth-eleventh century. The text is not in an insular script, but nevertheless, to celebrate St Brigit's Day, I am sharing this lovely, neat copy for the Life for you to transcribe.

The Life of Brigit, Vita Sancti Brigidae, attributed to Cogitosus, is found on ff. 115b–123. The Life was written c. 675 or possibly earlier, but “not much later than 650” (Connolly).

For a summary of scholarly information about the Life see: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/

Vita_sanctae_Brigitae_(Cogitosus). Information on editions and translations is also listed here.

For an easily accessibly translation see Connolly 1987: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25508920

For the German translation see Karina Hochegger's thesis: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail/o:1256995

For more about the author see: https://www.dib.ie/biography/cogitosus-a1809

For a catalogue description of the manuscript see pg. 352 here: https://archive.org/details/cataloguegnr17fran/page/352/mode/2up?view=theater

For the digitized version of the full manuscript see: https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md90dv14027t

Or, of course, for more about St Brigit see: https://www.dib.ie/biography/brigit-brighid-brid-bride-bridget-a0961