Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina

The Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina is a catalogue of Latin hagiographic materials, including ancient literary works on the saints' lives, the translations of their relics, and their miracles, arranged alphabetically by saint. It is usually abbreviated as BHL in scholarly literature.^[1] The listings include MSS, incipits, and printed editions. The first edition (1898-1901) and supplement (1911) were edited by the Bollandists, which included the Jesuit scholar Hippolyte Delehaye. The most recent supplement has been the product of a single editor Henryk Fros. The BHL along with the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca and Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis are the most useful tools in the research of literary documents concerning the saints.^[2]

Editions

• Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae aetatis, ed. Société des Bollandistes, Subsidia Hagiographica 6 (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1898-1901).
  • Vol. 1. A - I and Vol. 2. K - Z.
• Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae aetatis. Supplementi editio altera auctior, ed. Société des Bollandistes, Subsidia Hagiographica 12 (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1911).
• Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae aetatis. Novum Supplementum, ed. Henryk Fros, Subsidia Hagiographica 70 (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1986).

References

1. See for example, Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, ed., The Invention of Saintliness (New York: Routledge, 2002), 138.
2. Sergei Hackel, ed., The Byzantine Saint (San Bernardino: Borgo Press, 1983), 161.

See also

• Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca
• Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis

External links

• Société des Bollandistes
• Online reference of Medieval Sources.