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Vita sancti Deicoli ‘Life of Deicolus’

  • Latin
  • prose

Life of St Deicola/Deicolus of Lure abbey, which is extant in two recensions (BHL 2120-2121).

Manuscripts

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London, British Library, MS Additional 21917 [s. xex/xiin]
ff. 51r–71v
Incl. history of the monastery up to 990 AD.
Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 643
Fragment. Provenance: Citeaux.
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 16734
ff. 121–126
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 17005
ff. 121v–126v
Montpellier, École de Médecine, MS 1 4
ff. 133–138
BHL 2121.
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 11758
ff. 122v–128
17th century
Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 467
ff. 119–130
BHL 2121. 17th cent.
Paris, Collection Duchesne, MS 72
f. 117
Extract. BHL 2121. 17th cent.
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 7569 (3440) = Collectanea Bollandiana: Acta sanctorum Ianuarii [s. xvii]
ff. 176–183
Bollandist copy = BHL 2120 or 2121, without the prologues.
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 8919
ff. 17–22v
Another Bollandist copy = BHL 2120.
Language
  • Latin
Date

c.965.

Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Vita sancti GalliVita sancti Galli

Latin account of the life and miracles of St Gall, one of Columbanus’ disciples and founder of St. Gall, written by Wetti (Wettinus), a monk of Reichenau (d. 824). It was commissioned by Gozbert, abbot of St. Gall, to whom a metrical prologue is dedicated. BHL 3246.

Classification

Subjects

Deicolus of Lure
Deicolus of Lure
(d. c.625)
Irish peregrinus, alleged to be a half-brother of Gall, disciple of Columbanus and founder of a hermitage at Lure/Lutre in Burgundy, which would become the abbey of Lure.
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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.

BHL 2120
[ed.] Waitz, Georg, “Ex Vita S. Deicoli”, in: Supplementa tomorum I-XII, pars III: vitae aliaeque historiae minores; supplementa tomi XIII, 15.2, Hanover, 1888. 674–682.
Digital MGH: <link>
Partial edition.
[ed.] Colgan, John, Acta sanctorum veteris et maioris Scotiæ seu Hiberniæ, sanctorum insulæ, Louvain: Everard De Witte, 1645.
Data.onb.ac.at: <link> Google Books: <link>, <link>
115–127 Taken from the Bollandist text (Edita à Bolando do too 2. Ianuarij).
[ed.] Bollandus, Ioannes, and Godefridus Henschenius, Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, vel a catholicis scriptoribus celebrantur, 68 vols, vol. 2: Ianuarius II, Antwerp: Ioannes Meursius, 1643.
199–210 (=564–574 in 3rd ed.)
BHL 2121
[ed.] d'Achery, Luc, and Jean Mabillon, Acta sanctorum Ordinis S. Benedicti, vol. 2: Saeculum II, Paris: Lutetiae Parisiorum, apud Carolum Savreux, 1669.
Gallica: <link>
102–116 (= 95–108 in 2nd ed.) Ex MS. cod. Cisterc. & Bollando.

Secondary sources (select)

Thomas, Heinz, “Der Mönch Theoderich von Trier und die Vita Deicoli”, Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 31 (1966–1967): 42–63.
Kenney, James F., “Chapter III: The Irish church in the ‘Celtic’ period”, 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. 156–287.
208 [id. 51.]
Schreiber, Georg, “Iroschottische und angelsächsische Wanderkulte in Westfalen: mit Ausblicken auf den gesamtdeutschen Raum”, in: Heinrich Borsting, Alois Schröer, and Max Bierbaum (eds), Westfalia Sacra. Liudger und sein Erbe: dem 70. Nachfolger des heiligen Liudger, Clemens August Kardinal von Galen, Bischof von Münster zum Gedächtnis, 2 vols, Münster: Verlag Regensberg, 1948–1950. Vol. 2: 1–132.
27ff
Zinzius, Heinrich, “Untersuchungen über Heiligenleben der Diözese Besançon”, Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 46 (1927): 389–392.

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