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Epistula ad Aletrannum

Century: 12-13

Hagiography

Latin

Dioc. Liège
Duchy of Brabant

INCIPIT

Godefridus Ordano et Victori. Conscripto in estate libello beate Ode et reposito custodie, visa est ipsa mihi apparere, sed ego neglexi attendere. Hinc autem in Adventu...

EXPLICIT

(6266) ...et electam Sponsi celestis sponsam pro sponsi sui desponsatione in virginali gradu permanere, quam constat modo coronatam esse tanti talisque sponsi refectione?.-- (6267) ...talisque respectione sponsi I.C., qui vivit... Amen.

Godefridus Rodensis

Sex: M- Bio: canon of the monastery of St Oedenrode (12-13th C.), not Rolduc as earlier was assumed.-Status author (order, function): Augustinian Canons (CSA)

EDITING

Location:Monastery of Saint-Oedenrode - Date: / - Commission: /

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CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Apology in which the author narrates two visions and five items concerning his Vita sanctae Odae Rodensis : sources, motivation, the arguments for St Oda's Irish origins, her royal descent and her virginity.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, II 2328 (Link)

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

VAN DER STRAETEN (J.), 'Sainte Ode patronne de Sint-Oedenrode', AB, 76 (1958) 110-117

LITERATURE

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 6266-7 Suppl. nr. 6266
POTTHAST (A.), Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi, V (Roma, 1962-) 168-169
VAN DER STRAETEN (J.), 'Sainte Ode, patronne de Saint-Oedenrode', in: Analecta bollandiana, 76 (1958) 65-89

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Contributor:
Marit Gypen

Update:
1995-11-21 00:00:00