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Vita Richarii

Alcuin
  • Latin
  • prose
  • Anglo-Latin texts
Alcuin’s revised version of the vita of Richarius (Riquier), an early 7th-century Frankish nobleman and founder of the monastery of Centula (Saint-Riquier, Picardy).
Author
Alcuin
Alcuin
(d. 804)
English clergyman, scholar and poet.
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Manuscripts

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1 =
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 563
ff. 3–20
2 =
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 207
ff. 215–217
3 =
The Hague, Royal Library, MS 71 H 66
ff. 1r–22v
There is a gap between ff. 5-6.
3a =
Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 715 vol. 3
ff. 151v–156r
4a =
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Reg. lat. 488
ff. 1v–13v
Foll. by a text of the Miracula.
4b =
Brussels, Bibliothèque des Bollandistes, MS 7460
ff. 36–39
Foll. by a text of the Miracula.
4b* =
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 5323 [s. xii/xiii]
ff. ff 13ra–15ra
4c =
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 12606
ff. 22–23
Incomplete.
4d =
Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 716 vol. 5 [s. xii]
ff. 74r–77v
5a =
Reims, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 1144
ff. 25v–30
5b =
Charleville-Méziêres, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 229
ff. 250–254v
5c =
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 11757
ff. 27–29
5d =
Troyes, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 1
ff. 31v–34v
6 =
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 3788
ff. 202v–204v
(No siglum)
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 9 [s. xi2]
pp. 210a–219a
(No siglum)
Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 642 vol. 2
f. 145v ff
Language
  • Latin
Date
8th century
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
(Possible) sources: Vita Richarii primigeniaVita Richarii primigeniaEarliest vita of Richarius (Riquier), an early 7th-century Frankish nobleman and founder of the monastery of Centula (Saint-Riquier, Picardy). The text has been dated to the late 7th century.
Related: Epitaphium Fricori seu HadrianiEpitaphium Fricori seu HadrianiA Latin epitaph for the Irishman Fricorus, al. Hadrianus, written by Angilbert, a Carolingian poet who was given the monastery of Centulum.

Classification

Anglo-Latin textsAnglo-Latin texts
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Subjects

Richarius
Richarius
(s. vii)
Richarius or Riquier, 7th-century Frankish saint and founder of two monasteries, Centule (Lat. Centula) or Saint-Riquier, as it became later known, and Cella Forestis (present-day Forest-Montier).
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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, B., and W. Levison, “Vita Richarii confessoris Centulensis auctore Alcuino”, in: Bruno Krusch (ed.), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (II), 4, Hanover, 1902. 389–401.
Dmgh.de: <link>
[ed.] Migne, Jacques-Paul (ed.), Saeculum ix, annus 804, B. Flacci Albini seu Alcuini ... opera omnia, tomus secundus, Patrologia Latina, 101, 1851.
Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: View in Mirador Google Books: <link> Internet Archive – 1863 reprint by Migne: <link>
681C–694 (= same in 1863 reprint)
[ed.] Henschen, Godfrey, and Daniel Papebroch, Acta sanctorum: quotquot toto orbe coluntur, vel a catholicis scriptoribus celebrantur, 68 vols, vol. 12: April III [21–30], Antwerp: apud Michaelem Cnobarum, 1675.
Google Books: <link>
446–451 (text, with notes); 445–446 (introduction)
[tr.] Translation wanted

Secondary sources (select)

Krusch, Bruno, “XVII: Vita Richarii sacerdotis Centulensis primigenia”, in: Bruno Krusch, and Wilhelm Levison (eds), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (V), 7, Hanover and Leipzig, 1920. 438–453.
Dmgh.de: <link>
438–439 notes 1–2
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
February 2016, last updated: September 2024
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