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Vie de saint Philippe

Century: 13

Hagiography

French

Dioc. Cambrai

INCIPIT

Inc. prol.: Douce chose et bonne est a oïr parler des oevres Nostre Seigneur et des vies et des saintes passions des sainz apostres -- Inc.: Sicom la divine page tesmoingne, .xx. anz après l'acenssion Nostre Seigneur...

EXPLICIT

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Anonymous: Mon. Valcellensis-Passionaire français (Naso 2217)

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

EDITING

Location:Probably Vaucelles - Date:Shortly before 1250 (incorporated in the first 'Passionaire français' I,9) (BHL 6814) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /

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ABSTRACT

Life of St. Philippus from Bethsaida (+80). At first he was a disciple of St. John the Baptist, afterwards he became an apostle of Christ together with St. Peter and St. Andrew. Philippus preached in Gaul and surroundings. His missionary task brought him eventually to Macedonia. His final destination was Phyrgia, where he was tortured to death and cruficied upside down.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, 10326
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, nouv. acq. fr., 10128

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 401 (fragment)

LITERATURE

AMSLER (F.), 'Remarques sur la réception liturgique et folklorique des Actes de Philippe (APh VIII-XV et Martyre)', Apocrypha, 8 (1997) 251-264
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 6814
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 393-458
NORET (J.), 'La dédicace des Saint-Apôtres Philippe et Jacques', Analecta Bollandiana, 91 (1973) 378
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992) 180-189

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Contributor:
Jeroen Deploige
An-Katrien Hanselaer

Update:
2014-03-18 13:18:23