TY - JOUR
AU - Ogilvy, J. D. A.
AB - 6r Medieval will of the people, the true repository of the Orthodox faith" cannot be proved, and, where evidence is available, as in the history of Arianism and iconoclasm, it is demonstrably false. University of California, Los Angeles MILTON V. ANASTOS THE EARLIEST LIFE OF GREGORY THE GREAT, BY AN ANONY· MOUS MONK OF WHITBY. Text, translation, and notes by Bertram Colgraoe, (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. 1968. Pp. ix, 180. $6.00.) THE Vita Antiquissima Gregorii Magni completes Colgrave's work of making available all the earliest Latin lives of saints written in England in excellent scholarly editions. The University of Kansas Press is to be congratulated on the book's format, and it is to be hoped that they will keep it in print longer than Cambridge kept the Vita Wiijridi, An edition of the Vita Antiquissima was much needed, for Gasquet's edition of 1904 was neither easily available nor particularly satisfactory. The text is difficult to edit, for it survives in only one manuscript, St. Gall 567, which was done by a rather careless scribe. In general, however, the scribe's mistakes (as, anoscendum for agnoscendum) seem to have been orthographic rather than stylistic, and we can assume that Colgrave 
TI - The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great, by an Anonymous Monk of Whitby. Text, translation, and notes by Bertram Colgrave. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. 1968. Pp. ix, 180. $6.00.)
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/74.2.561
DA - 1968-12-01
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SP - 561
EP - 561
VL - 74
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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