Abstract
The Legendarium Magdeburgense (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Ms. Magdeb. 26 and 138) is a large two-volume hagiographical collection compiled in the mid-fifteenth century. It contains a reworking (abridgement) of the relatively rare longer redaction of the “Second Life” of St. Adalbert of Prague (inc. Nascitur by St. Bruno of Querfurt (Bibliotheca hagiographica latina; hereinafter: BHL 38), a selection from Miracula s. Adalberti (BHL 44, BHL 45), Vita et Passio Brunonis (BHL 1471b, BHL 1472) as well as a passio of Five Brothers (BHL 1148) in a version derived from Cosmas of Prague’s chronicle and a short extract from an epitome of Cosmas (the Brunswick epitome known from a single copy). The article focuses on the witness of Nascitur, its place within the manuscript tradition and the dating of the reworking. It is accompanied by a brief analysis of textual readings of Vita et Passio Brunonis and their value vis-a-vis the existing edition, as well as some notes concerning the remaining texts and the calendar entries for those texts’ saints. All of the above are supplemented with the remarks focused on Legendarium Magdeburgense compilers’ method.
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