Century: 12
Hagiography
Latin
Dioc. Thérouanne
Dioc. Tournai
County of Flanders
INCIPIT
Proloog:Filius et frater merito tuus, o pia mater,/ Laudibus immensis celeberrima plebs Sithiensis...-- Corpus: Nobilis urbs, gaude celebri, Constantia, laude/ Prole Deo grata, Phebo magis irradiata...
EXPLICIT
...viventem videat magis huncque loquentem
Sex: M- Bio: Trained in Saint-Bertins (Saint-Omer) and send to Saint Peter's abbey in Ghent in 1117 to reform it. In 1127 he became abbot of Auchy-les-Moines and in 1131 of Saint-Bertins. After his deposition in 1136 he returned to Ghent and he stayed there until his death in 1148. He was beatified. According to A. VAN GEERTSOM he could be the author of the Ysengrimus.-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)
EDITING
Location:Saint-Omer and Ghent - Date:1137-1148 - Commission:dedicated to Leo, abbot of Saint-Bertins and successor of Simon
SIZE
5389 woorden
CONTEXT
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ABSTRACT
Life of St Bertin in verse.
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
Boulogne sur Mer, Bibliothèque Municipale
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
MORAND (F.), Mélanges historiques, I, Parijs, 1873 , 3-41 (Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de la France)
LITERATURE
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1294
FRIS (V.), in: BN, 22 (1914-1920) 538-541
Index scriptorum operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi, 3:1 (Bruxelles, 1979) 47-48.
LECLERCQ (J.), Etude sur S. Bernard et le texte de ses écrits, in: Analecta sacri ordinis Cisterciensis, 9 (1953) 178-179
LEVISON (W.), in: MGH SS. rer. Mer., V (1910) 749-750
POTTHAST (A.), Bibliotheca Historica Medii Aevi, Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des europäischen Mittelalters bis 1500, II (Berlin, 1896) 1022
VAN DER ESSEN (L), Etude critique et littéraire sur les vitae des saints mérovingiens de l'ancienne Belgique (Leuven/Paris, 1907) 410
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Contributor:
Véronique Lambert
Update:
2010-11-16 13:14:40
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