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Vie de saint Agapit

Century: 13

Hagiography

French

Dioc. Cambrai

INCIPIT

Desouz Aurelien l'empereor avint que uns enfes estoit en la cité de Roume qui avoit non Agapites. / Cil enfes amoit et doutoit Nostre Seigneur sor toutes autres creatures, et por ce guerpi il toutes les choses qui li estoient demorées de son pere et de sa mere...

EXPLICIT

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mon. Valcellensis

Sex: M- Bio: -Status author (order, function):

EDITING

Location:Probably Vaucelles - Date:Shortly after 1250 ( incorporated in the first 'Passionaire français') (BHL 0125 ) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /

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CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Vita of S. Agapetus Praeneste (+ 274). Saint Agapitus came from Palestrina in Rome and was a young christian martyr, at age fifteen tortured because of his religious beliefs. According to legend, Agapitus was beheaded.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Dublin, Trinity College, B 2.8
Sainte-Geneviève, bibliotheek, 587

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

MEYER (P.), Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale, XXXV (1897) 691 (fragment)

LITERATURE

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 0125
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 393-458
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992) 180-189
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 20-21

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Contributor:
Jeroen Deploige
An-Katrien Hanselaer

Update:
2014-04-09 14:46:09