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Dat leven des heilighen bijsscop Sinte Servaes
Century: 14-15
Hagiography
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INCIPIT
Sjnte seruaes was biscop tot heyden tongheren dat gheleghen is int sticht van ludic daer nv die biscope stoel is...
EXPLICIT
...Ende daer was oec seer sueten roeck ende men hoerde die enghelen singhen inden hemel Amen
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Location:Northern Low Countries - Date:before 1438 - Commission: /
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CONTEXT
St Servatius was in the fourth century bishop of Tongeren. His presence at two concilies, Sardica (342/3/4) and Rimini (359) has been mentioned. Gregory of Tours mentions a bishop of Tongeren at the time of the invasions of the Huns, but according the surviving manuscripts his name was Aravatius. Probably St Servatius was meant, because his oldest biographers derived their knowledge from Gregory's story (S032, S034). St Servatius dies in Maastricht, where he is venerated.
ABSTRACT
Life of St Servatius
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Amsterdam, Universiteitsbibliotheek
Groningen, Universiteitsbibliotheek
Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
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LITERATURE
CARASSO-KOK (M.), Repertorium van verhalende historische bronnen uit de middeleeuwen. Heiligenlevens, annalen, kronieken en andere in Nederland geschreven verhalende bronnen (Bibliografische reeks van het Nederlands Historisch Genootschap) ('s-Gravenhage, 1981) no 83
DESCHAMPS (J.), 'Middelnederlandse prozalegenden van de H. Servatius' in: J. NOTERMANS, Commentaren op Heinric van Veldeken's Sint-Servaaslegende IV (a) (Maastricht 1977) 189-190
JONGEN (L.), 'Sint Servaas tussen feit en fictie: Hendrik van Veldeke en de hagiografische traditie', in: Literatuur, 11 (1994) 290-296
KOLDEWEIJ (M.), Der gude Sente Servas (Assen/Maastricht, 1985) 48 nr. 24
REINDERS-BAUMANN (A.), 'Servatius', LTK 9 (Freiburg e.a. 2000) 492
STOOKER (K.), VERBEIJ (T.), Collecties op orde. Middelnederlandse handschriften uit kloosters en semi-religieuze gemeenschappen in de Nederlanden. 2 dln (Leuven, 1997) nrs 17, 92, 697, 699
THIERS (O.), VIS (J.), in: P.J. Margry, C. Caspers, eds. Bedevaartplaatsen in Nederland 3 (Amsterdam, Hilversum 2000) 453-491
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 799-800
WILLIAMS-KRAPP (W.), Die deutschen und niederländischen Legendare des Mittelalters. Studien zu ihrer Überlieferungs-, Text- und Wirkungsgeschichte (Tübingen, 1986) 458
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Renée Nip
Update:
2014-05-22 14:34:22
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