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H057

Vita Amati Longior
Vita sancti Amati

Century: 10

Hagiography

Latin

Dioc. Tournai
Kingdom of West Francia

INCIPIT

Prologus: (1) Ne cui forte legentium sermo dipliceat incultus, imperitiamque scriptoris omnis denotet studiosus initio scedulae, ita votum purgetur idiotae, ut primo praesumptio non culpetur in...-- (2) Mirus artifex idemque opifex, Dominus omnipotens et Deus noster, qui secundum omnipotentiam suam fecit quae sunt et gubernat eadem ut sunt, coelum, terram, mare et...-- Corpus: Igitur beatus Amatus ante saecula praedestinatus, in fine autem temporis ordine congruo vocatus, ex christianis et justis parentibus feliciter natus, feliciter educatus...

EXPLICIT

...praevaluit, nos ad auctoritatem vetustorum librorum converti debere, qui apud Sanctum Medardum et in archivo nostro atque multorum scriniis coenobiorum inveniuntur.

Hucbaldus Elnonensis

Sex: M- Bio: monk, 880 priest and scolastic of the abbey of Saint Amand in Elno (Saint-Amand-les-Eaux), in the period 883/6 until 900 in the abbey of Saint Bertins at Saint-Omer (?c.840/+930). NaSo 653: generally considered as the author (Surius); VAN DER ESSEN thinks that Hucbaldus cannot be the author (VAN DER ESSEN 1923). NaSo 2167: 'Vita metrica Lamberti': According to Demarteau (1902), Hucbald of Saint-Amand was the autor of this biography of saint Lambert. -Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)

EDITING

Location:Saint Amand's abbey in Elno (Saint-Amand-les-Eaux) (?) - Date:between 907 and 918 (Platelle 1990) - Commission: /

SIZE

CONTEXT

Probably written during the same period as the Vita Rictrudis.

ABSTRACT

Biography of St Amatus, bishop of Sion (+c. 690). Amatas was exiled by Theodoric, king of Neustria and Burgundy. During his exile up until his death, he stayed at the abbey of Breuil-sur-Lys under the supervision of Maurontus, the son of saint Rictrude. His vita contains a miracle when he was underway to Breuil, his stay at Hamage and his abbacy at Breuil.

SOURCES

Boëthius, Consolatio philosophiae
Virtutes Fursei

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Brussel/Bruxelles, Bibliotheek der Bollandisten/Bibliothèque des Bollandistes, 506
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, 7460

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum bibliothecae regiae Bruxellensis. Pars I. Codices latini membranei, 2 (Brussel, 1889) 44-55
Dolbeau (F.), 'Le dossier hagiographique de saint Aimé, vénéré à Douai. Nouvelles recherches sur Hucbald de Saint-Amand', Analecta bollandiana, 97 (1979) 92-98 (exc.), 110 (emend.) (fragment)

LITERATURE

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Suppl. nrs. 363-364
Bibliotheca Sanctorum, 1 (Roma, 1962) 939-940
CHARTIER (Y.), 'Hucbald de S.-Amand', in: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 25 (Paris, 1925) 40-44
CHEVALIER (U.), Répertoire des sources historiques du Moyen-age. Bio-bibliographie (Paris, 1877-1886. 1888 II) 2189-2190;
DOLBEAU (F.), 'Le dossier hagiographique de saint Aimé, vénéré à Douai. Nouvelles recherches sur Hucbald de Saint-Amand', in: Analecta bollandiana, 97 (1979) 89-110
PLATELLE (H.), 'Hucbald de Saint-Amand', in: Nouvelle Biographie Nationale, 2 (Brussel, 1990) 225-228
PLATELLE (H.), 'Hucbald', in: G. Jacquemet, ed. Catholicisme. Hier, aujourd'hui, demain, 5 (Paris, 1962) 1001-1002
POTTHAST (A.), Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi, V (Roma, 1962-) 572-574
REUSENS (E.-H.-J.), 'Hucbald de Saint-Amand', in: Biographie Nationale, 9 (Brussel, 1886-7) 612-621
SMITH (J.M.H.), ‘A Hagiographer at Work: Hucbald and the Library at Saint-Amand’, in: Revue bénédictine, 106 (1996) 151-171 (passim)
SMITS VAN WAESBERGHE (J.), 'Hucbald', in: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, 5 (Freiburg, 1960 2de druk) 505
UGÉ (K.), Creating the Monastic Past in Medieval Flanders (York, 2005) 103-105

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Marit Gypen

Update:
2012-01-31 10:58:21