The 1913 edition of the "Catholic Encyclopedia" lists several separate accounts of the saint's deeds and miracles, or "Lives". The "Life" (or "Vita") printed in John Capgrave's "Nova, Legenda" and used by the Bollandists, was perhaps copied from a Cotton manuscript in the British Museum. There is another "Vita" in Latin in the same collection, but it was so damaged by fire that it is useless. The surviving versions of the "Vita Sexburge" were compiled after 1106 (the year the relics of Seaxburh were translated) and are copies from an earlier manuscript, now lost. The "Vita" describes Seaxburh's early life, marriage to Eorcenberht, withdrawal to Milton and then Minster-in-Sheppey, and her final years as a nun and the abbess at Ely. The section relating to her life at Sheppey is similar to another fragment, dating between the 9th and 11th centuries, and currently kept at Lambeth Palace. It has been suggested that part of the "Vita Sexburge" was derived from this manuscript, or that both parts originated from an earlier version of Seaxburh's "Life".