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G145

Epistola de vita Hildegardis Bingensis

Century: 12

Correspondence

Latin

Dioc. Liège
Duchy of Brabant

INCIPIT

(ad.) Reuerentissimo patri et domino, Dei gratia Coloniensis ecclesiae antistiti P(hilippo), frater G(uibertus), professione monachus, conuersatione tepidus, deuotum et filii affectum...-- (ep.) Dum inter ceteros dignitatis uestre consortes, quorum plurimos ad uenerabilem matrem sacramque Christi uirginem Hildegardem sepius uenisse uidimus, uos eo frequentior quo...

EXPLICIT

...idemque ipse post finem cursus uestri sanctum ac desiderabilem uultum suum in eterna beatitudine placabilem ostendere uobis non aspernetur. Amen.

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: / - Date:after, 20 april 1180 (Derolez 1988), before 1191 (date of death of the addressee Philip of Heinsberg) - Commission: /

SIZE

1583 woorden (index scriptorum), 186 lines (ed. Derolez 1988)

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

In this letter, Guibert apologises for the delay on the 'Vita', which Philip had commissioned him to write.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, 5527-5534 (Link)

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

DE SMETH (C.), 'Sancti Servatii Tungrensis episcopi vitae antiquiores tres', Analecta Bollandiana, 1 (1882) 600-605 (fragment)
DEROLEZ (A.), Guiberti Gemblacensis Epistolae Pars 1: Epistolae I-XXIV, Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaeualis, LXVI (Turnhout, 1988) 211-215
PITRA (J.B.), Analecta sanctae Hildegardis opera Spicilegio Solesmensi parata, Analecta sacra, 8 (Monte Cassino, 1882; reprint: Farnborough, 1966) 414-415 (fragment)

LITERATURE

BALAU (S.), Les sources de l'histoire de Liège au Moyen Age, Étude critique (Bruxelles, 1903) 409-414;
CHEVALIER (U.), Répertoire des sources historiques du Moyen-age. Bio-bibliographie (Paris, 1877-1886. 1888 II) 1915-6;
DELEHAYE (H.), 'Guibert abbé de Florennes et de Gembloux XIIe et XIIIe siècles', in: Revue des questions historiques, 46 (1889) 44-45 (5-90)
DEROLEZ (A.), Guiberti Gemblacensis Epistolae Pars 1: Epistolae I-XXIV, Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaeualis, LXVI (Turnhout, 1988) 210 nr. XV
HERWEGEN (H.), Les collaborateurs de sainte Hildegarde. IV. Guibert de Gembloux, in: Revue Bénédictine, 21 (1904) 398 (381-403)
Index scriptorum operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi, 3:1 (Bruxelles, 1979) 87;
KNIPPING (R.), Die Regesten der Erzbischöfe von Köln im Mittelalter, 2: 1100-1205 (Bonn, 1901) 1143
MOENS (S.), 'Twelfth-century epistolary language of friendship reconsidered. The case of Guibert of Gembloux', Revue Belge de philologie et d'histoire/ Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis, 88 (2010), 983-1017 (1003-1007)
MOLINIER (A.), Les Sources de l'histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'en 1789 (4 vols.) (Paris, 1902-1904) nr. s 1321-1322, 1329;
Monasticon belge, I (Bruges and Liège: Abbaye de Maredsous, 1890-1993) 20-21;
POTTHAST (A.), Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi, V (Roma, 1962-) 266-267
SCHRADER (M.), FÜHRKÖTTER (A.), Die Echtheit des Schrifttums der heiligen Hildegard von Bingen. Quellenkritische Untersuchungen, Beihefte zum Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 6 (Keulen-Graz, 1956) 131

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Marit Gypen

Update:
2014-06-23 13:00:11