Two Books on Miracles

Introduction to the Two Books on Miracles

Peter the Venerable's Two Books on Miracles (De miraculis) is a collection of miracle stories and hagiographic narrative gathered over the course of Peter's lifetime and rewritten/ reorganized in at least three different redactions.

Manuscripts

Neuchâtel, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Neuchâtel, AF A25.

• IIIF Compliant: Manifest

Editions

Petri Venerabilis, abbatis Clvniacensis, Illvstrivm miracvlorvm libri II. Accesserunt Selectiora quædam ex chronicis fratru[m] ordinis Prædicatorum editis à R. P. M. Antonio Senensi. Nonnulla præterea plena admirationis, desumpta ex antiquissimis ecclesiæ scriptoribus [...] 1595 (Google Books/ Bavarian State Library)

Translations

There is not currently an English translation of Peter's De miraculis, although I am told one is underway by William North (Carleton College).