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F030

Fundatio monasterii Aquicinctini

Century: 12

Histories-Gesta

Latin

Dioc. Arras
County of Hainault

INCIPIT

Prologus: Quantae utilitatis quantaeque felicitatis existat erga silentii disciplinam animum exercere, licet multis sanctorum erudiamur exemplis plerisque phylosophorum...-- Corpus: Abbatia sancti salvatoris Iesu Christi in Aquicinnio quo tempore coepta, quibus regibus imperantibus, quibus personis, quibus dominis vel principibus existentibus...

EXPLICIT

...quam posteri, ne quasi transgressores redarguantur factae promissionis, quia non solum pro datis, sed etiam eundo et redeundo, stande, meditando, operando digne promeruit.

Alexander Aquicinctensis, Alexander Aquicinctinus, Alexander van Anchin (?)

Sex: M- Bio: Prior, afterwards abbot of the abbey of Anchin (+1174). See RFHMA for the attribution of NaSo 358 to Alexander, abbot of Anchin (1166-1174)-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)

EDITING

Location:Abbey of Anchin - Date:ca.1170 (RFHMA); shortly before 1174 (Molinier) - Commission: /

SIZE

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

The foundation of the abbey of Anchin in 1079.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Amiens, Bibliothèque Municipale, 499 (Link)
Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale, 827 (Link)

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France, 14 (Parijs, 1806) 40-41 (fragment) (Link)
WAITZ (G.), in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores, 14 (Hannover, 1883) 579-584 (Link)

LITERATURE

COTTINEAU 91-92
DE MOREAU (E.), Histoire de l'Eglise en Belgique des origines au début du XIIe siècle, 2 (Brussel, 1945) 180-181
GERZAGUET (J.-P.), L'abbaye d'Anchin de sa fondation (1079) au XIVe siècle. Essor, vie et rayonnement d'une grande communauté bénédictine (Villeneuve d'Ascq, 1997) 33-37
MOLINIER (A.), Les Sources de l'histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'en 1789 (4 vols.) (Paris, 1902-1904) nr. 1763
POTTHAST (A.), Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi, IV (Roma, 1962-) 605
VANDERPUTTEN (S.), 'From sermon to science: monastic prologues from the southern Low Countries as witnesses of historical consciousness (10th-15th centuries)', in: W. Verbeke, et al. (eds.), Medieval Narrative Sources: A gateway into the medieval mind (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia Series I: Studia, 34) (Leuven, 2005) 37-54
VANDERPUTTEN (S.), Sociale perceptie en maatschappelijke positionering in de middeleeuwse monastieke historiografie (8ste-15de eeuw) (Brussel, 2001) (Algemeen Rijksarchief, Studia, 87)
WAITZ (G.), in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores, 14 (Hannover, 1883) 578-579
WATTENBACH (W.), Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zum Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, 2 (Berlin, 1893-1894) 176

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Contributor:
Marit Gypen

Update:
2014-02-27 16:20:42