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Vita Botulfi abbatis et Adulfi episcopi
Century: 11
Hagiography
Latin
England
INCIPIT
(ep.) Desiderantissimo patri... Walcelino... Nullo praecedente vitae merito...-- Prologus: Omnipotentis Dei benignitas, compatiens errori humani generis, quod ab antiquo serpente coelitus concessa denudatum gloria, ignorantiae damnatur tenebris...-- Corpus: Antequam in Britannia christiana religio dilataretur; nobilibus orti natalibus germana nativitate et caritate devincti, studiis mox initiantur coelestibus. Nati sunt de...
EXPLICIT
...miracula, ad laudem et gloriam Domini nostri Jesu Christi; Qui cum Deo patre et Spiritu sancto vivit et regnat Deus trinus et unus, per infinita secula seculorum. Amen.-- (epitomen) ...et in eodem quod construxerat monasterio sepelitur.
Sex: M- Bio: monk in Saint Bertin's abbey in Saint-Omer, afterwards in the abbey of Thorney (Cambridgeshire), which he governed for 16 years without being consecrated until his deposition in 1085.-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)
EDITING
Location:Abbey of Thorney - Date:shortly after 1070 (Barlow) - Commission:dedicated to Walkelin, 1070-98 bishop of Winchester (Clover, Barlow)
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ABSTRACT
Life of St Botulfus, patron and abbot of the abbey of Thorney (+680), and St Adolfus, his brother (according to the legend), and bishop of Maastricht/Utrecht (7th century).
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti, III (Parijs, 1672) 4-7 (sine ep.)
Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, Jun., III (1701) 402-403
Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, Jun., IV (1867, 3e druk) 327-328 (sine ep.)
CAPGRAVIUS (I.), Nova Legenda Anglie (Londen, 1516) f. 42r-42v (epitomen)
HARDY (T.D.), Descriptive catalogue of materials relating to the history of Great Britain and Ireland to the end of the reign of Henry VII, 1, Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores or Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, 29 (Londen, 1862; anast. reprint: 1966) 373-374 (ep.)
HORSTMAN (C.), Nova Legenda Angliae, 1 (Oxford, 1901 2de druk) 130-132 (epitomen)
LITERATURE
Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, junii, 4 (1867 3de druk) 322-327
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Suppl. nrs. 1428-9b
Bibliotheca Sanctorum, 3 370-371
CLOVER (H.), 'Folcard', in Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 17 (Parijs, 1971) 741-743
DE GAIFFIER (B.), 'Le martyrologe et le légendier d'Herman Greven', Anallecta Bollandiana, 54 (1936) 341 nr. 102 (1429b)
HARDY (T.D.), Descriptive Catalogue of materials relating to the history of Great Britain and Ireland, 1, Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, 26 (Londen, 1862) 373-375
O'BRIAN (F.), 'Botulf', in Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 9 (Parijs, 1937) 1433-1434
POTTHAST (A.), Bibliotheca Historica Medii Aevi, Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des europäischen Mittelalters bis 1500, I (Berlin, 1896) 452-3
POTTHAST (A.), Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi, IV (Roma, 1962-) 479
STEVENSON (F.S.), in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archeology and natural History (1922) 29-52
VAN HOUTS (E.), 'The Norman Conquest Through European Eyes', in: English Historical Review, 110 (1995) 832-853
Vies des Saints et des Bienheureux selon l'ordre du Calendrier avec l'Historique des Fêtes, 6 (Parijs, 1948) 280
WILKINSON (D.F.), in Studia Patristica, IV/2, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 79 (Berlijn, 1961) 527-533
ZIMMERMANN (A.M.), Kalendarium Benedictinum, 2 (Metten, 1933-8) 322-323
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Contributor:
Marit Gypen
Update:
2010-09-16 14:17:05
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