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T026

De turre Athenis constructa

Century: 11

Poems

Latin

Dioc. Liège
Dioc. Tournai
County of Flanders
Duchy of Lower Lotharingia

INCIPIT

Effigies turris constructa refertur Athenis/ Octo presculptos gestans octogona ventos...

EXPLICIT

...Quem spectas Aquilo sit proximus Affricus Austro/ Hos ita Vitruvii docuit sollercia pingi.

Theodericus Trudonensis

Sex: M- Bio: Was born c. 1060 and admitted as a youngster to the the abbey of Saint-Trond. After the death of abbot Abelardus II he fled to Ghent, where he wrote several Vitae. On 25th December 1098 he was elected as the abbot of Sint-Truiden. He died on 25th April 1107.-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)

EDITING

Location:Sint-Truiden or Ghent - Date:11th century - Commission: /

SIZE

125 woorden

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Poem inspired by the "Tower of Winds" in Athens.

SOURCES

Horatius
Lactantius.
Vergilius (Virgilius)
Vitruvius, De architectura

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, 10615-10729

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

MANITIUS (M.), Zur poetischen Literatur aus Brusell. 10615-729, in: Neues Archiv, 39 (1914) 163
RUFFEL (P.), Theoderici abbatis carmen Vitruvianum, in: Annales de la Faculté des Lettres de Toulouse. Antiquité, Linguistique, Préhistoire, 2 (1952) 84-99 (86)

LITERATURE

Index scriptorum operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi, 2 (Bruxelles, 1976) 107.
MANITIUS (M.), Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters, vol.III, Vom Ausbruch des Kirchenstreits bis zum Ende des zwolften Jahrhunderts (München, 1959-1964) 712

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Contributor:
Véronique Lambert

Update:
2010-11-16 14:58:33