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V062

Epistola ad abatissam et religiosas de Binges

Century: 12

Correspondence

Latin

Dioc. Liège
Duchy of Brabant

INCIPIT

Religiose famule Christi I(de), vocatione divina abbatisse de Binges, et universis eius sororibus ecclesia de Villari, paracliti consolationem. Si de transitu reverende matris vestre Hildegardis corda vestra turbata sunt...

EXPLICIT

...Prestet hoc nobis Trinitas,/ Simplex et una Deitas,/ Pater et Unigenitus/ Et Spiritus Paraclitus. Amen.

Guibert de Gembloux, Guibert van Gembloux, Guibertus Gemblacensis

Sex: M- Bio: monk of the abbey of Gembloux, 1177-9 secretary of Hildegardis of Bingen and spiritual father of the monastic community of Rupertsberg in Bingen, 1180 back to Gembloux, September 1180-May 1881 and 1185-1186/87 in the abbey of Marmoutier (Tours), 1188 abbot in the abbey of Florennes (?1124/5/+1214). (NaSo 265): See Pertz and Potthast for the attribution to Guibertus Gemblacensis. (Naso 607): zie Delehaye (1888) voor de toeschrijving aan Guibertus Gemblacensis (in overeenstemming met Hervardus). (NaSo 1524): The final redaction of this letter seems to be the work of Guibertus Gemblacensis-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)

Anonymous: mon. Villariensis (NaSo V062)

Sex: M- Bio: Monks of Villers-Status author (order, function): Cistercian Monks (SOCist)

EDITING

Location:Villers - Date:shortly after 1179 - Commission: /

SIZE

93 regels

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Letter of the monks of Villers to the abbess and nuns of the abbey of Rupertsberg, after the decease of the illustrious abbess Hildegard of Bingen. The monks of Villers expressed their condolences and repeated 38 questions they asked in a previous letter, related to the mystical and visionary gifts of Hildegard of Bingen (vide Narrative Sources V055). The letter ends with an ode to Hildegard. Possibly Guibertus Gemblacensis played an important part in the redaction of the letter.

SOURCES

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TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

DEROLEZ (A.), Guiberti Gemblacensis Epistolae Pars 2: Epistolae XXV-LVI, Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaeualis, LXVI A (Turnhout, 1989) 381-383
Verzameling heiligenlevens 438-440 (foutief)

LITERATURE

DELEHAYE (H.), 'Guibert abbé de Florennes et de Gembloux XIIe et XIIIe siècles', in: Revue des questions historiques, 46 (1889) 5-90 (31-32)
DEPLOIGE (J.), In nomine femineo indocta. Kennisprofiel en ideologie van Hildegard van Bingen (1098-1179) (Hilversum 1998, MSB, 55)
DEROLEZ, ed. 380
HERWEGEN (H.), Les collaborateurs de sainte Hildegarde. IV. Guibert de Gembloux, in: Revue Bénédictine, 21 (1904) 381-403 (382 e.v.)
Index scriptorum III/2, 301
MOENS (S.), 'Twelfth-century epistolary language of friendship reconsidered. The case of Guibert of Gembloux', Revue Belge de philologie et d'histoire/ Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis, 88 (2010), 983-1017
SCHRADER (M.), FÜHRKÖTTER (A.), Die Echtheit des Schrifttums der heiligen Hildegard von Bingen. Quellenkritische Untersuchungen, Beihefte zum Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 6 (Keulen-Graz, 1956) 17-19, 148-149, 157

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Jeroen Deploige

Update:
2012-02-02 09:58:21