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Abstract:

The article offers a study of the hagiographical collection contained in
MS BNE 10252. The author discusses the material characteristics of the codex, the
sources of the collection and its organization. All this proves its independence
from the Legenda aurea by Jacopo da Varazze and from the rest of Castilian
hagiographical collections in the vernacular. Subsequently, the relationship of
MS 10252 with the Portuguese Vidas e paixões dos apóstolos (a translation made
during the fourteenth century), based on a section of Bernardo de Brihuega’s
Vitae patrum (c. 1270), is examined. The connections between the Castilian collection
and the Vidas e paixões show that both derive in part from the same
translation and adaptation of the Vitae patrum, which was produced most likely
at the court of Alfonso X (1252–1284), in the context of the composition of the
General estoria.