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2311

Epistula ad scholastico R.

Century: 12

Correspondence

Latin

Dioc. Tours
France

INCIPIT

Dulcissimo sibi et omnibus pro nota probitate amabili scholastico R., frater G, in praesenti cum electis labores et et certamina, in futuro ... Cum Dominus omnium largitor bonorum praecipiat ut gratis accepta gratis expendantur, ...

EXPLICIT

... et consilium salubre in quo se testatur habitare sapientiae, haec te meditantem et exequi festinantem Christi semper regat dextera et gratia comitetur. Amen. Vale.

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)

EDITING

Location:Tours, probably at the chapter of Châteauneuf - Date:1180-1181 or 1185-1186 - Commission: /

SIZE

223 lines (ed. Salmon)

CONTEXT

Since reading the Life of St Martin of Tours by Sulpicius Severus as a child Guibert fostered a special admiration for St Martin. During his life he devotes himself to spreading the saint's fame, for instance by urging others to write texts about St Martin (see also NaSo 522). Guibert met R. during his first or second stay at Tours. If R. ever complied with Guibert's request is contested, although judging from R.'s reply letter to Guibert he at least intented to do so (see NaSo 2312). Based on manuscript evidence Salmon equated the Liber de restructione Maioris Monasterii with the result of Guibert's appeal to R. (Salmon 1854). However Farmer refuted this identification (Farmer 1991). Guibert himself also wrote two Lives of Martin (see NaSo 515 and 516).

ABSTRACT

Letter to the scholaster R., probably a canon of Châteeuneuf in Tours, in which Guibert urges him in a playful reproach to employ his literary skills in the honour of St Martin of Tours, by pointing to the parable of the talents. R. should devote himself in particular to writing down Martin's most recent miracles.

SOURCES

Bijbel
Seneca, De beneficiis
Leo the Great, Sermons

INFLUENCE

Liber de restructione Maioris Monasterii (?)

MANUSCRIPTS

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 15067

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

BOCHEL (L.), Gregorii Turonensis. Historiae Francorum (Parijs, 1610)
SALMON (A.), Recueil de chroniques de Touraine (Tours, 1845) 343-350

LITERATURE

DELEHAYE (H.), 'Guibert abbé de Florennes et de Gembloux XIIe et XIIIe siècles', in: Revue des questions historiques, 46 (1889) 16 50
DEROLEZ (A.), Guiberti Gemblacensis Epistolae Pars 1: Epistolae I-XXIV, Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaeualis, LXVI (Turnhout, 1988) xi (vn)
FARMER (S.), Communities of Saint Martin. Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours (Ithaca & Londen, 1991) 309
SALMON (A.), Recueil de chroniques de Touraine (Tours, 1845) cii-ciii cxx-cxxii cxxvi

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Sara Moens

Update:
2014-07-03 12:54:20