Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Roger of Ford
ROGER of Ford (fl. 1170), called also Roger Gustun, Gustum, and Roger of Cîteaux, hagiographer, was a Cistercian monk of Ford in Devonshire. He went to Schonau, and while there wrote, at the order of William, abbot of Savigny, ‘An Account of the Revelations of St. Elizabeth of Schonau,’ with a preface addressed to Baldwin (d. 1190) [q. v.], abbot of Ford, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury. The preface begins ‘Qui vere diligit semper,’ and the text ‘Promptum in me est, frater.’ A manuscript of this work is in St. John's College, Oxford, cxlix, No. 8; another copy is in Bodleian MS. E. 2. Roger also wrote a sermon on the eleven thousand virgins of Cologne, beginning ‘Vobis qui pios affectus,’ and an encomium of the Virgin Mary in elegiacs, both of which are contained in the St. John's College MS. clxix. No. 8, and the latter in Bodleian MS. E. 2 as well.
[Tanner's Bibl. Brit.; Coxe's Cat. MSS. in Coll. Aulisque Oxon.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.237
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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| 106 | ii | 15 f.e. | Roger of Ford: for and wrote read and while there wrote |
| 14 f.e. | for of Savigny, abbot of Schonau read abbot of Savigny | ||
| 6 f.e. | for clxix read cxlix |