H021
Epistola directa venerabili domino abbati de Parco dominorum ordinis premonstratensis, prope Lovanium, pro reformatione sui monasterii
Epistola pro reformatione monasterii Parci Dominorum
Epistola reformatoria
Century: 15
Correspondence
Latin
Dioc. Liège
Duchy of Brabant
INCIPIT
Religiose ac venerabilis in Christo pater, ad obtemperandum vestre paternitatis devotis instanciis, edere curavi hoc presens opusculum, lima caritatis, si placeat...
EXPLICIT
...te constituam, intra in gaudium Domini tui. Ad cujus gaudii contubernium nos perducere dignetur Altissimus, post hujus vite miserabilem incolatum. Amen.
Sex: M- Bio: (Congr.Wind.), 1436 canon, after that sexton and master of the novices, 1450-6 prior, 1456 subprior, 1459 prior in the monastery of Bethleem near Louvain (?ca.1404/+2 september 1473 (Mon. belge, Aubert, Persoons, Van Arenbergh) of 1479 (Potthast, RFHMA)).-Status author (order, function): Augustinian Canons (CSA)
EDITING
Location:Monastery of Bethleem at Herent near Louvain - Date:c.1462. - Commission: /
SIZE
12 f.
CONTEXT
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ABSTRACT
Letter of Henricus de Merica to the abbot of Park abbey (Walter of Beringen (1434-62) or his successor Theodericus of Thulden), in which he elaborates a proposition for the reformation of the abbey.
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
LEFEVRE (P.-F.), L'Epistola reformatoria du prieur de Bethléem Henri vander Heyden pour l'abbaye du Parc au XVe siècle, in: Analecta Praemonstratensia, 3 (1927) 1-21
LITERATURE
APPELMANS (J.), Mijter en Hof. Een biografie van Diederik van Tuldel (1419-1494), abt van Park: spiegel voor het monastieke leven (Leuven, 1995), onuitgegeven licentiaatsverhandeling 25-26
AUBERT (R.), 'Henri Vanderheyden', in Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 23 (Parijs, 1990) 1242-1243
LEFEVRE (P.-F.), L'"Epistola reformatoria" du prieur de Bethléem Henri van der Heyden pour l'abbaye du Parc au XVe siècle, Analecta praemonstratensia. Etudes, 1 (Tongerlo, 1927) III-VII
Monasticon belge, IV/3 (Bruges and Liège: Abbaye de Maredsous, 1890-1993.) 774, 805, 1008, 1015-1017
PERSOONS (E.), 'Heyden (de Merica), Hendrik van', in Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, 2 (Brussel, 1966) 327-329
POTTHAST (A.), Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi, V (Roma, 1962-) 436
VAN ARENBERGH (E.), 'Henri de Merica, van der Heyden', in BN, 9 (Brussel, 1886-7) 207-209
LINKS
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Contributor:
Janick Appelmans
Marit Gypen
Update:
2010-09-17 11:58:31
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