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H058

Vita et inventio corporis sancti Ionati

Century: 10

Hagiography

Latin

Dioc. Tournai
Kingdom of West Francia

INCIPIT

Prologus: Materia non apparente...-- Corpus: (vi.) Venerabilem huius diei celebritatem...-- (inventio) Marcianis est monasterii locus, a beato Amando in honorem S. Petri apostolorum principis consecratus. Ecclesia quidem honesto schemate et decore satis congruo perornata...

EXPLICIT

...vitae januam nobis aperire, atque in eam nos introducere dignetur. Qui cum Patre et Spiritu sancto vivit et regnat unus Deus per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.

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: / - Date:c.908-9 (Platelle 1990). - Commission: /

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CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Biography of St Ionatus, abbot of Marchiennes (+late 7th century).

SOURCES

Milo Elnonensis, Vita sancti Amandi (suppletio)

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, 9119

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, Aug., I (1733 ; 1867 3e druk) 73-75 (Link)
Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, Belgii, V (Brussel, 1789) 152-156 (Link)
Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum bibliothecae regiae Bruxellensis. Pars I. Codices latini membranei, 2 (Brussel, 1889) 273-75 (fragment)
MIGNE (J.-P.), Patrologia latina, CXXXII (Paris, 1853) 900-903 (Link) (Link) (Link)

LITERATURE

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 4447-4448
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) 92
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.), Bibliotheca Historica Medii Aevi, Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des europäischen Mittelalters bis 1500, I (Berlin, 1896) 1402-1403;
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
VANDERPUTTEN (S.), ‘A miracle of Jonatus in 1127. The Translatio sancti Jonati in Villa Saliacensi (BHL 4449) as political enterprise and failed hagiographical project’, in: Analecta bollandiana, 126 (2008) 55 (+ passim)

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Contributor:
Marit Gypen

Update:
2011-06-10 10:07:53