Liber iste vocatur Vita Sansonis. Un légendier factice du XIIe siècle constitué de livrets hagiographiques

A 12th-century index (Paris, Bibl. Mazarine 1708, fol. 27) reveals the existence and arrangement of a factitious collection of Vitae containing a number of hagiographic quires copied separately in the 10th-11th centuries; in the 14th century or earlier this collection was dismembered and six of its parts were redistributed between two manuscripts (Mazarine 1708 and 1711). The criteria for recognizing such quires are discussed as well as the consequences of this editorial practice for the circulation of hagiographic works.

Publisher: Société des Bollandistes