Hildemar of Corbie, Expositio Regulae Sancti Benedicti

Ps.-Paulus Diaconus, Commentarium in Sanctam Regulam
Ps.-Basilius, Expositio super Regulam Sancti Benedicti



This information on this page is partly assembled by Mariël Urbanus (University of Utrecht) and forms part of the Hildemar Project

See also the pages on Hildemar and on the Expositio Regulae on Das Digitale Repertorium: Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters.

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Editions:
  • Ruppert Mittermüller, Expositio Regulae ab Hildemaro tradita, Regensburg: Pustet 1880, on archive.org and on the Hildemar Project.
  • Pauli Warnefridi Diaconi Casinensis, In Sanctam Regulam Commentarium, Montecassino 1880, on archive.org.
  • Hafner, Wolfgang, Der Basiliuskommentar zur Regula S. Benedicti. Ein Beitrag zur Autorenfrage karolingischer Regelkommentare, Münster 1959 (Beiträge zur Geschichte des alten Mönchtums und des Benediktinerordens, vol. 23), pp. 115-142 (excerpts that appear exclusively in the Basilius-version).
Translation:
  • Hildemar Project
  • French translation by Michèle-Marie Caillard, Hildemar de Corbie. Commentaire de la Règle de Saint-Benoît, Le Coudray-Macouard: Saint-Léger productions 2015.


Manuscripts:

Basilius-version:

Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek 253, part I and III
s. X-XI
fol. 2-78
107-169
prol.-ch. 7.11 (breaks off  at ... ut tamen debeat loqui quantum cause exigit); ch. 24-61
Alemania
image; description
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek 253, part II
s. IX2/2
fol. 79-106
ch. 7.11-23 (starts with duobus diebus necesse est de ipsa...)
Alemania
image; description
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek 142
s. IX2/2
fol. 1-24
prol.-ch. 61

not yet digitized
Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek Aug. 179
s. IX3/4
fol. 1-167v
ch. 14-61
Northern Italy;
Reichenau
catalogue; image
Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek Aug. 203 s. IX3/4 fol. 2-183
prologue-
ch. 13
Constance?;
Reichenau
catalogue;
image

Hildemar-version:

Heiligenkreuz, Stiftsbibliothek 30
s. XIII
fol. 1-188

Heiligenkreuz
catalogue
Melk, Stiftsbibliothek 1809
s. XIII1/2
fol. 1-270

  catalogue
Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana Z 48 sup.
s. XIIex?



Kristeller,
Iter, p. 316
catalogue
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 4567
s. XI2/2/
s. XIII
fol. 31v-32
fragm.
from ch. 36

catalogue;
not yet digitized
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 7232
1467 fol. 1-199

Fürstenzell not yet digitized
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 18103
s. XII1/2
fol. 1-164

Tegernsee not yet digitized
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 21633 s. XV
fol 3-372

Weihestephan not yet digitized
Paris, BN lat. 12637
s. XI
fol. 1-176

St-Maur-des-
Fossés/
Saint-Bénigne,
Dijon
catalogue; image

Paul the Deacon-version:

Florence, Bibliotheca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Laur. Strozzi, 26 s. X-XI
fol. 1-115
    catalogue
Mantua, Biblioteca Communale, Cod. B IV. 2 (228)
s. XI-XII
fol. 1-96
prol.-ch. 39
Polirone
Mantua, Biblioteca Communale, Cod. C. III. 17 (337)
s. XIII
fol. 1-178

Polirone
Montecassino, Biblioteca dell'Abazia 175
915-934


Montecassino
catalogue
Montecassino, Biblioteca dell'Abazia 352


copy of MS 175

Montecassino, Biblioteca dell'Abazia 360


copy of MS 175
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 14765
s. XI
fol.1-
66
prol.-ch. 7
St. Emmeram
not yet digitized
Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 390
s. XIex



catalogue
Paris, BN lat. 13800 s. XVI-
XVIII
fol. 3-
140

Saint-Germain-des-Prés catalogue
Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale, Cod. Sessorianus 17
s. IX1/2
fol.63-
105v
prol.-ch. 29
text breaks off in ch. 29 at ...ut per poenitentiam satisfaciat Deo, et per ultimum gradum...
catalogue
Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale, Cod. Sessorianus 76
s. X
fol. 1-
81v
prol.-ch. 7
Nonantola. Text begins in the prologue:
sus
]  ….ceptionem. Sicut enim doctrina
dicitur
... T
he first leaf is missing. It ends at the beginning of ch. 7 (primus gradus humilitatis): ... carnis amputare festinet  
catalogue
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale G V 4
s. IX/X


Bobbio, ascribed to Paulus Diaconus
catalogue


Bibliography on Hildemar's Expositio Regulae (also click here):