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Cronica Villariensis monasterii. Continuatio quarta

Century: 15

Histories-Gesta

Latin

Dioc. Liège
Duchy of Brabant

INCIPIT

Percepta itaque morte prefati domini Walteri, quidam seculares amici nonni Franconis Calabre de Lovanio, tunc bursarii nostri, practicabant apud ducem pro ipsius promotione; cuius auxilio mediante...

EXPLICIT

...per quod totum temporis nullus extiterat qui prenotatas chronicas conscribendo prosequeretur, prout etiam ibidem narrat immediate post epitaphium predicti doctoris, sicut supra patet.

Joes van Dormael

Sex: M- Bio: monk of the abbey of Villers, confessor in the abbey of Argenton in Gembloux, afterwards (from c.1467) in Valduc, played a part in the reform of the abbeys of female Cistercians of Argenton, Valduc, Nieuwenbos and Maagdendale in the middle of the 15th century (+1st May 1489).-Status author (order, function): Cistercian Monks (SOCist)

EDITING

Location:Abbey of Villers (?) - Date:c. 1485-1489 - Commission: /

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CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Fourth continuation of the chronicle of Villers, including a note on abbot Frank Calaber (November 26th 1485), a lot of information on the cistercian abbey of Valduc (Hertogendal) (especially the reform under the mentioned abbot) and biographical notes about Joes van Doermael.

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INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Averbode, Abdij, XVII
Brugge, Hoofdbibliotheek Biekorf, 425 (Link)
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, 6410-6416 (Link)
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, 16584
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, 4459-4470 (Link)
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, 7776-7781
Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale, 612 (Link)
London, British Library, Add. mss., 25053/5 (Link)
Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Arsenal, 1067

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

WAITZ (G.), in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores, 25 (Hannover, 1880) 219 (Link)

LITERATURE

CANIVEZ (J.-M.), L'Ordre de Cîteaux en Belgique (Forges-lez-Chimay, 1926) 199
LAVALLEYE (J.), Histoire de l'Abbaye de Valduc (Brussel, 1926) X
Monasticon belge, VII/3 (Bruges and Liège: Abbaye de Maredsous, 1890-1993) 388
VANDERPUTTEN (S.), ‘Chronica monasterii Villariensis’, in: DUNPHY (G.), ed. The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2010 , 374
VANDERPUTTEN (S.), Sociale perceptie en maatschappelijke positionering in de middeleeuwse monastieke historiografie (8ste-15de eeuw) (Brussel, 2001) (Algemeen Rijksarchief, Studia, 87)
VLEESCHOUWERS (C.), 'Joes van Dormael's kroniek der hervorming binnen de Brabantse cisterciënserinnenabdij Hertogendal (1488)', in: Ons Geestelijk Erf, 47 (1973) 174-177
WAITZ (G.), in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores, 25 (Hannover, 1880) 192-195

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Contributor:
Marit Gypen
Steven Vanderputten

Update:
2010-12-06 16:39:28