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Immediate dispatch from Somerset UK. Best condition of this set I have seen. Page blocks have marking but page faces are bright and clean. 1898 edition. Covers excellent. See Images.

About the book >.>.> By the Greeks under the name of Marina on July 17th The Rus sian. Ethiopie Syriac Kalendars on the ryth. The first to insert her in Latin Martyrology was Hrabanus Maurus (d. 856) on July rath under the name of Margaret; and again on June 18th under the name of Marina. He was followed by Notker and Wandelbert. The Roman Martyrology on July soth. Sarum York and Reformed Anglican Kalendars on the same day. Usuardus inserted a S. Marina martyr at Alexandria on June 18th and he probably meant S. Margaret and put Alexandria for Antioch. The name of S. Margaret found its way into Anglican Litanies of the 7th cent. and an Anglo-Saxon Passion of S. Margaret has been edited by Mr. F. O. Cockayne (Narratiuncule Anglice conscripta). In 966 a church was dedicated to S. Margaret in ret in the diocese of Liege. The Little Roman Martyrology and that attributed to S. Jerome do not contain any mention of S. Margaret. In the 13th cent. the cultar of S. Margaret became very great in England and her day was kept as a holy-day on which no work was allowed to be done. With regard to the Acts of S. Margaret Greek or Latin all that can be said is that they are a barefaced forgery. The author pretends to have been eye-witness of all he describes. He says:-“I. Tectinus (Theotimus) took pains to observe all when the blessed Margaret fought against the dragon and the tyrant and I wrote all that she endured.” Again “Theo tinus and ber nurse were in the prison ministering to her bread and water and they looked through a window and wrote down her prayer and in the fear of God noted all that took place.” Then follows the cock-and- bull story of the dragon swallowing S. Margaret and bursting to let her get out of his stomach because her cross had stuck in his throat. Oue of the devils tells how Solomon had shut him up and sealed him in a jar and how some Babylonians broke open the jar in search of money and to the devil escaped. This recalls the story of the Fisherman and the Jin in the “Arabian Nights. (OS)