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2263

Vie des Trois frères jumeaux

Century: 13

Hagiography

French

Dioc. Cambrai

INCIPIT

Al tens de Speosippus et Eleosippus et Meleosippus, cil trois freres, vindrent avant, corust par tote la citee de Langres

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' II,7) ( BHL 7829) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /

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CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Life of the Holy triplets: Speusippus, Eleusippus and Meleusippus Tergemini from Cappadocia (+ 175). The brothers were martyred together with their grandmother Leonilla under the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Their relics were transferred some centuries later, in 490, to the Cathedral of Langres.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

London, British Library, Add.mss. 6524 (Link)
Sainte-Geneviève, bibliotheek, 588

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 407 (fragment)

LITERATURE

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 7829
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)
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 821

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Contributor:
Jeroen Deploige
An-Katrien Hanselaer

Update:
2014-03-18 11:29:28