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Vita sancti Erhardi episcopi

Paulus Iudaeus
  • Latin
  • prose
A Latin Life of Erhard, bishop of Regensburg and patron of Niedermünster, written within a few years of this canonisation in 1052. According to the prologue, it was written by Paulus Iudaeus, a monk of Fulda, at the request of Eilika/Heilika, abbess of Niedermünster. Although according to modern scholarship, Erhard was more likely of Frankish origin, perhaps from Narbonnne, the text by Paulus alleges that he was Irish (Scoticus), a claim which may be best explained with reference to the Irish presence in Regensburg in the 11th century. BHL 2590.
First words (prose)
  • Erhardus qui gloria fortis interpretari potest
Author
Paulus Iudaeus
Paulus Iudaeus
(d. 1066)
A monk of Fulda who was responsible for composing a life of Erhard, bishop of Regensburg, at the request of Eilika, abbess of Niedermünster, not long after Erhard's relics were translated.
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Ascribed to: Paulus Iudaeus
Paulus Iudaeus
(d. 1066)
A monk of Fulda who was responsible for composing a life of Erhard, bishop of Regensburg, at the request of Eilika, abbess of Niedermünster, not long after Erhard's relics were translated.
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Manuscripts
Heiligenkreuz, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 11 [s. xiiex]
ff. 25v–28r
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 22240 [s. xii]
ff. 58r–62v
Melk, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 388 [s. xiii]
ff. 59r–63v
Admont, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 25 [c. 1200]
ff. 21r–24r
Zwettl, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 13 [s. xiii1/4]
ff. 24v–26v
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Pal. lat. 617 2, ff. 80r-92v [s. xiii]
ff. 81r–88r
Lilienfeld, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 58 = Magnum legendarium Austriacum (pars I: 1 Jan-15 Feb.) [s. xiii1/3]
ff. 38v–42r
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 13101 2, ff. 132-194 [s. xiiiex/xiv]
ff. 132r–140r
Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 272 1654 quarto
Fragment.
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, MS B III 21
ff. 266rb–266vb
Fragment.
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 14473 ff. 54-73 [s. xiv1]
ff. 54r–62r
Language
  • Latin
Date
c.1052.
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Subjects

Erhard of Regensburg
Erhard of Regensburg
(fl. 7th/?8th century)
Bishop of Regensburg, of whom little is known historically. His relics were translated in 1052 and a life was written for him not long thereafter which claimed that he was a missionary from Ireland.
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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.] Levison, Wilhelm, “Vita Erhardi episcopi Bavarici auctore Paulo”, in: Bruno Krusch, and Wilhelm Levison (eds), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (IV), 6, Hanover, Leipzig, 1913. 1–21, 636 (add. to p. 2).
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Secondary sources (select)

Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters, Online: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012–present. URL: <https://www.geschichtsquellen.de>. 
abstract:
Das digitale Repertorium „Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters“ ist ein quellenkundliches und bibliographisches Nachschlagewerk zu den erzählenden Geschichtsquellen des mittelalterlichen Deutschen Reiches für die Zeit von ca. 750 bis ca. 1500. Hervorgegangen ist es aus dem lateinisch verfassten „Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi“ (11 Bände, 1962-2007). Die Deutschland betreffenden Geschichtsquellen dieses europäischen Gemeinschaftswerks wurden damals von der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften beigesteuert. In erweitertem Umfang werden sie seit 2012 im Web digital publiziert und fortgesetzt. Der Datenbestand wird dabei in kritischer Auswertung der Forschungsliteratur kontinuierlich aktualisiert und um neue Inhalte ergänzt.
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MIRABILE, Online: Studio del Medioevo Latino, 2009–present. URL: <http://www.mirabileweb.it>. 
abstract:
MIRABILE è un knowledge management system per lo studio e la ricerca sulla cultura medievale promosso dalla Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino e dalla Fondazione Ezio Franceschini ONLUS di Firenze.
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Koschwitz, Gisela, “Der heilige Bischof Erhard von Regensburg: Legende–Kult–Ikonographie”, Studien und Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Benediktinerordens und seiner Zweige 86 (1975): 481–644.
Ó Riain, Diarmuid, “The Schottenklöster and the legacy of the Irish sancti peregrini”, in: Wolfram R. Keller, and Dagmar Schlüter (eds), ‘A fantastic and abstruse Latinity?’: Hiberno-Continental cultural and literary interactions in the Middle Ages, 12, Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 2017. 141–164.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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June 2023
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