Arnoldus Leodiensis
Arnoldus Leodiensis (Arnold de Liège, Arnold of Liège, born around 1276; died around 1309), was a monk of the Dominican Order and a Latin author who is believed to have lived in the vicinity of Liège, then a city of the Episcopal Principality of Liège, in present-day Belgium.[1]
Biography
Arnoldus is known from his Alphabetum narrationum (formerly attributed to Stephen of Besançon): the initials of the sentences of its prologue form the acrostic "Arnuldus de Serain", Seraing being a commune near Liège. This way of encoding intellectual responsibility was well established in medieval tradition, and Arnoldus's identity as author was established through the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century work of Barthélemy Hauréau and John Alexander Herbert.[1]
Works
Arnoldus created the Alphabetum narrationum (Alphabet of Narratives), a working tool for preachers composed between 1297 and 1308. The text listed exempla (stories that preachers might wish to use in their sermons), giving each story a number of thematic keywords and listing them alphabetically with a sophisticated system of cross-references.[1]
A fourteenth-century copy of the Alphabetum narrationum is held in the collection of the Royal Library of Belgium, Manuscripts Department, under the reference number KBR ms. IV 14.[1]
The work was translated into a number of European languages, including English.[2]
Editions
- Arnold de Liège; Ribaucourt, Colette; Brilli, Elisa; Berlioz, Jacques; Polo de Beaulieu, Marie-Anne (2015). Arnoldi Leodiensis "Alphabetum narrationum". Exempla Medii Aevi. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-53200-4. (which should be read alongside Brilli, Elisa (2019). "Retour sur l'Alphabetum narrationum d'Arnold de Liège". The Journal of Medieval Latin. 29: 163–198. ISSN 0778-9750.)
- BANKS, Mary Macleod (1904). An Alphabet of Tales: an English 15th Century Translation of the Alphabetum Narrationum of Etienne de Besançon, from Additional MS. 25719 of the British Museum. for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner.
References
- Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 Back to citation occurrence 1.2 Back to citation occurrence 1.3 Arnold de Liège; Ribaucourt, Colette; Brilli, Elisa; Berlioz, Jacques; Polo de Beaulieu, Marie-Anne (2015). Arnoldi Leodiensis "Alphabetum narrationum". Exempla Medii Aevi. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-53200-4.
- Back to citation BANKS, Mary Macleod (1904). An Alphabet of Tales: an English 15th Century Translation of the Alphabetum Narrationum of Etienne de Besançon, from Additional MS. 25719 of the British Museum. for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner.
External links
- Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge
- Deutsche Biographie
- One of the exempla from the Alphabetum narrationum: "The Justice of Trajan (from the Alphabet of Tales)". University of Michigan. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- One of the exempla from the Alphabetum narrationum: "The Justice of Herkinbald (from the Alphabet of Tales)". University of Michigan. Retrieved 24 September 2013.