‘Adalbert of Spalding’

bibliographical ghost

= Adalbert of Metz, Speculum Gregorii

Repertories

• Bale, Index, 2–3
• Bale, Catalogus, 1. 205–206
• Tanner, 4–5
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Wikidata

Notes

As an English writer, Adalbert of Spalding is a ghost created by Bale out of Leland’s recording a copy of the Speculum Gregorii at Spalding. The compiler of this common text was Adalbert of Metz († c980; CMA Gallia, 1. 13–15). Kirkstead, K53, did not make the author an Englishman. Bale, Index, 2–3, refers to two copies in private hands besides those recorded at Bury and Spalding by Kirkstead.