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Vita domni Werrici, prioris de Alna, viri venerabilis et Deo digne
Vita metrica Werrici Alnensis

Century: 13

Hagiography

Latin

Dioc. Cambrai
County of Hainault

INCIPIT

Domnus Werricus, qui corpore pauper obivit / ut puto, perpetuo ditatus lumine vivit / ...

EXPLICIT

... septimus et decimus annus cum mille ducentis / dum currebat, eum posuerunt in monumentis.

mon. Alnensis

Sex: M- Bio: Een anonieme monnik van Aulne-Status author (order, function): Cistercian Monks (SOCist)

EDITING

Location:Aulne? - Date:after 1217 († Werric of Aulne) - Commission: /

SIZE

572 lines (ed. Boll.)

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Life of Werric, originally a chanon in Liège and one of the disciples of Bernard of Clairvaux that were selected by Bernard to found a new Cistercian community in Aulne. Werric held the positions of novice master and prior at Aulne. The Vita commends in particular his extraordinary charity.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, 4459-4470 (Link)
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, II 1047

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum bibliothecae Regiae Bruxellensis. Pars I. Codices latini membranei, 1 (Brussel, 1886) 445-463

LITERATURE

ROISIN (S.), L'hagiographie cistercienne dans la diocï¿½se de Liï¿½ge au XIIIe siï¿½cle, Universitï¿½ de Louvain. Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie, 3e sï¿½rie, 27 (Leuven-Brussel, 1947) 46-47

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Contributor:
Stefan Meysman
Sara Moens

Update:
2014-07-09 13:32:15