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Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano ‘The Nivelles supplement (to the Vita Fursei) concerning Foillan’

  • Latin
  • prose
  • Irish hagiography, Hagiography

Latin Life of St Foillán of Fosses, a brother of St Fursa. It was written as a supplement to Vita Fursei. BHL 3211. 

Title
Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano
‘The Nivelles supplement (to the Vita Fursei) concerning Foillan’
al. De obitu et sepultura sancti Foillani.
First words (prose)
  • Post discessu vero beati viri Fursei tempestas illa, quam in spiritu praeviderat, ultramarinis deseviebat in oris.
Manuscripts

Krusch’s division of the manuscripts of the Vita Fursei into four classes A, B, C and D is indicated below, even if these might not relate equally to the Additamentum.

Class A
Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS Rhen. 81 6, pp. 352-379 [s. ix]
Inserted in the middle of the Vita Fursei (Krusch's A1a).
Class C
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 17137
f. 61r–61v
Krusch’s C3b.
Class D
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 2768A [s. x]
ff. 71v–73r
Melk, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 388 [s. xiii]
ff. ?–113
Krusch’s F 8.
Heiligenkreuz, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 11 [s. xiiex]
ff. 48ra–48rb
Rühn, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 51
ff. 132v–134v
Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 421
ff. 96–97
Krusch’s Salisb 36.
Other
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Vat. lat. 5772 [s. xiiin]
ff. 57ra.16–57vb
For further manuscripts, see the notes by Grosjean, Analecta Bollandiana 75 (1957).
Language
  • Latin
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Vita prima sancti FoillaniVita prima sancti Foillani

The Latin vita of St Foillán (Foillanus) of Fosses-la-Ville written in the 11th century by Paul of Nivelles, which is considered to be the first full life of the saint. BHL 3070.

Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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HagiographyHagiography
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Subjects

Fursa
Fursa
(fl. 7th century)
Irish monk and missionary
See more Foillán of Fosses
Foillán of Fosses
(fl. 7th century, d. 655)
Irish saint associated with Fosses (Fosses-la-Ville), in Wallonia, and brother of Fursa and Ultán.
See more Dido [bishop of Poitiers]Dido ... bishop of Poitiers
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
See more Gertrude of Nivelles
Gertrude of Nivelles
(d. 659)
Abbess of Nivelles in present-day Belgium, which she founded with her mother, Itta wife of Pippin I (maior domus in Austrasia).
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Nivelles
Nivialcha ... Nivelles
No short description available
See more Fosses-la-Ville
Fosses-la-Ville
No short description available
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Krusch, Bruno (ed.), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (II), MGH Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 4, Hanover, 1902.
Digital MGH: <link>
449–451
[add.] [corr.] Krusch, B., “Vita virtutesque Fursei abbatis Latiniacensis et de Fuilano additamentum Nivialense”, in: Bruno Krusch, and Wilhelm Levison (eds), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (V), 7, Hanover and Leipzig, 1920. 837–842.
Digital MGH: <link>
Incl. variant readings.
[tr.] Fouracre, Paul, and Richard A. Gerberding [trs.], Late Merovingian France: history and hagiography, 640-720, Manchester Medieval Sources Series, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.
327–329, with introduction at 301ff.

Secondary sources (select)

Grosjean, Paul, “Notes d’hagiographie celtique, no. 38: Chronologie de S. Feuillen”, Analecta Bollandiana 75 (1957): 379–392.
Grosjean, Paul, “Notes d’hagiographie celtique, no. 39: Où fut assassiné S. Feuillen?”, Analecta Bollandiana 75 (1957): 393–406.
Grosjean, Paul, “Notes d’hagiographie celtique, no. 40: Les compagnons de martyre de S. Feuillen”, Analecta Bollandiana 75 (1957): 407–418.
Grosjean, Paul, “Notes d’hagiographie celtique, no. 41: Les saints irlandais dans les litanies du Pontifical carolingien de Fribourg-en-Brisgau”, Analecta Bollandiana 75 (1957): 419–420.
Kenney, James F., “Chapter VI: The expansion of Irish Christianity”, in: James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Revised ed., 11, New York: Octagon, 1966. 486–621.
503 [id. 298 i.]
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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May 2011, last updated: September 2024
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