W013
Vies des PèresCentury: 13
Hagiography
French
INCIPIT
Prologus: A cex qui volontiers oïent et entendent les escritures doit l'en conter les anciens faiz ou l'en puet bons essemplais prendre, et les vies des sainz peres si que la memoire de lor bones ovres poïst lor cuers ratendrir et radocir et (qu'il poïssent) ensevre les ovres par que l'en puet venir a la mise-ricorde de Dé, ce est a la vie parmenable...-- Corpus: Entre les plusors a esté mainte questions sovent et mainte dotance qui premiers commença religion d'ermitage...
EXPLICIT
...Li moines qui mult manjue et mult mes ovrer ne doit mie en lui avoir fiance; mais cil qui petit manjue et a en lui astinence, encore ovre il petit, doit bien en lui avoir fiance.
Sex: M- Bio: In the beginning of the 13th century his works were commissioned by Philip, count of Namur (+1212), and of Joanna of Constantinople, countess of Flanders and Hainault (+1244); he translated several Latin works. Wauchier de Denain was clerc at the court of Roger IV, châtelain of Lille (1st third of the 13th century). (NaSo 611): For the adscription to Wauchier de Denain: see Raynaud de Lage, Ruby en De Visser-Van Terwisga.-Status author (order, function):
EDITING
Location: / - Date:the work was commissioned before 1212 but finished certainly after this date - Commission:It was commissioned by Philip of Namur
SIZE
ca. 125 fol.
CONTEXT
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ABSTRACT
Translation of the Vitae Patrum (St Paul the Hermit by Jerome; St Antony by Evagrius (translation of the Greek text); St Hilarion and St Malchus by Jerome; St Paul the Simple by Rufinus of Aquileia; the Ist and IIIth book of the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, the "Historia monachorum in Aegypto" and the "Verba seniorum", by Rufinus of Aquileia). The author added moralizing commentaries in verse.
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
Carpentras, Bibliotheque Inguimbertine
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
MEYER (P.), Versions en prose des Vies des Pères, in: Histoire Littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 258-278 (proloog, incipits en explicits van de verschillende heiligenle-vens)
LITERATURE
BOSSUAT (R.), e.a. Dictionaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Parijs, 1992) 1476-1477,1501-1502
ISAÏA (M.-C.), 'Rufin traducteur de l'Historia monachorum in Aegypto', collectanea Cisterciensia, 74 (2012) 289-296
MB nrs. 1849, 1851, 1862, 1863, 3797
MEYER (P.), Les premières compilations françaises d'histoires anciennes, in: Romania, XIV (1885) 36-76
MEYER (P.), Versions en prose des Vies des Pères, in: Histoire Littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 258-278
MEYER (P.), Wauchier de Denain, in: Romania, XXXII (1903) 583-586
S 3866, 3890
SZKILNIK (M.), Le choix de Wauchier de Denain. Ecrire en vers, écrire en prose, in: Romania, CVII (1986) 208-230
ISAÏA (M.-C.), 'Rufin traducteur de l'Historia monachorum in Aegypto', collectanea Cisterciensia, 74 (2012) 289-296
MB nrs. 1849, 1851, 1862, 1863, 3797
MEYER (P.), Les premières compilations françaises d'histoires anciennes, in: Romania, XIV (1885) 36-76
MEYER (P.), Versions en prose des Vies des Pères, in: Histoire Littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 258-278
MEYER (P.), Wauchier de Denain, in: Romania, XXXII (1903) 583-586
S 3866, 3890
SZKILNIK (M.), Le choix de Wauchier de Denain. Ecrire en vers, écrire en prose, in: Romania, CVII (1986) 208-230
LINKS
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Contributor:
Inge Roosens
Update:
2014-02-12 15:00:27
© The Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (Brussels: Royal Historical Commission, since 2009). URL: www.narrative-sources.be (accessed July 6th 2025).
Contributor:
Inge Roosens
Update:
2014-02-12 15:00:27
© The Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (Brussels: Royal Historical Commission, since 2009). URL: www.narrative-sources.be (accessed July 6th 2025).
