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Vita domni Werrici, prioris de Alna, viri venerabilis et Deo digneVita metrica Werrici Alnensis
Century: 13
Hagiography
Latin
Dioc. Cambrai
County of Hainault
County of Hainault
INCIPIT
Domnus Werricus, qui corpore pauper obivit / ut puto, perpetuo ditatus lumine vivit / ...
EXPLICIT
... septimus et decimus annus cum mille ducentis / dum currebat, eum posuerunt in monumentis.
Sex: M- Bio: Een anonieme monnik van Aulne-Status author (order, function): Cistercian Monks (SOCist)
EDITING
Location:Aulne? - Date:after 1217 († Werric of Aulne) - Commission: /
SIZE
572 lines (ed. Boll.)
CONTEXT
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ABSTRACT
Life of Werric, originally a chanon in Liège and one of the disciples of Bernard of Clairvaux that were selected by Bernard to found a new Cistercian community in Aulne. Werric held the positions of novice master and prior at Aulne. The Vita commends in particular his extraordinary charity.
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum bibliothecae Regiae Bruxellensis. Pars I. Codices latini membranei, 1 (Brussel, 1886) 445-463
LITERATURE
ROISIN (S.), L'hagiographie cistercienne dans la dioc�se de Li�ge au XIIIe si�cle, Universit� de Louvain. Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie, 3e s�rie, 27 (Leuven-Brussel, 1947) 46-47
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Contributor:
Stefan Meysman
Sara Moens
Update:
2014-07-09 13:32:15
© The Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (Brussels: Royal Historical Commission, since 2009). URL: www.narrative-sources.be (accessed May 12th 2025).
Contributor:
Stefan Meysman
Sara Moens
Update:
2014-07-09 13:32:15
© The Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (Brussels: Royal Historical Commission, since 2009). URL: www.narrative-sources.be (accessed May 12th 2025).
