Smaragdus of St. Mihiel, Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicti
Incipit:
Quisquis ad aeternum mavult conscendere regnum... (praefatio)
Obsculta. Haec nos hortantis beati verba... (prologue)
Monachorum quattuor esse genera manifestum est. "Monachus greca... (ch. 1)
Editions:
- Spannagel,
Alfred and Pius Engelbert, Smaragdi abbatis Expositio in Regulam S.
Benedicti, Corpus Consuetudinum Monasticarum,
vol. 8, Siegburg: Franz Schmitt 1974.
- Patrologia Latina,
vol. 102, col. 689B-932C, online.
Translations:
- Barry, David, Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel. Commentary on the Rule of Saint Benedict, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications 2007.
- Hauschild, Katarina, Smaragdus von Saint-Mihiel. Prolog des Kommentars zur Benediktusregel, St. Ottilien: Eos Verlag 2010 (only prologue).
Manuscripts:
| Alençon, Bibliothèque
Municipale 5 |
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| Angers, Bibliothèque
Municipale 321 (312) |
s. XV |
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Angers; catalogue;
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| Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Theol. lat. fol. 332 | 1470 |
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| Berlin,
Staatsbibliothek Theol. lat. fol. 339 |
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Martin, Cologne; Werden?; catalogue |
| Brussels,
Bibliothèque Royale 670-73 (3708) |
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| Brussels, Bibliothèque
Royale 5194-96 (3714) |
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| Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale 11144 (4510) | s. XII2 |
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| Brussels, Bibliothèque
Royale II 985 |
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| Cambrai, Bibliothèque
Municipale B 821 (726) |
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| Cambridge, University
Library Ee. II.4 |
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Bodleian Library lat. theol. c. 3; Glastonbury ?; catalogue;
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| Clermont-Ferrand,
Bibliothèque Municipale 155 (136) |
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| Copenhagen, Kongelige
Bibliotek Gl. Kgl. S. 176 |
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| Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek Gl. Kgl. S. 1374 | 1490 |
fol. 37v-198 |
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| Douai, Bibliothèque
Municipale 337 |
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| Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale 338 | 1472 |
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Hasnon; catalogue;
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| Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale 341 | s. XIII/ XIV |
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| Durham,
Cathedral Library B.III.8 |
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fol. 273 |
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| Gent,
Universiteitsbibliotheek 498 |
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| Le Mans, Bibliothèque
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| Le Mans, Bibliothèque Municipale 349 | s. XII |
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| Lisboa, Biblioteca
Nacional cod. Alc.263 |
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| Lobbes, Bibliothèque
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| Loches, Médiathèque Jacques Lanzmann 25
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| London, British Library
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| London,
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| London, British Library
Royal 10 A. XIIII |
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| Madrid, Archivo
Historico Nacional Clero. Carpeta 1030, num. 24 |
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| Madrid, Biblioteca de
la Real Academia de la Historia Aemil. 26 |
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Ms. M | St. Millán de la Cogolla; catalogue; image (search on Smaragdus) |
| Madrid, Biblioteca
Nacional 18672-99 |
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| Manchester, John
Rylands Library ms. lat. 104 (116) |
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| Mantova, Biblioteca Teresiana
(Biblioteca Comunale) 330 (C.III.10) |
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| Mons, Bibliothèque de
la Ville 64/198 |
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| Montserrat, Biblioteca
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Manresa; catalogue |
| Munich, Bayerische
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1410 |
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| New Haven, Ct., Yale University, Beinecke Library 481.9 | s. IXex | 1 fol. | ch. 72-32 | catalogue; not yet digitized. |
| Orléans,
Bibliothèque Municipale 230 (201) |
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| Oxford, Bodleian
Library Bodley 543 (2588) |
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| Oxford, Bodleian Library Hatton 40 | s. XIIex |
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| Oxford, Bodleian Library lat. theol. c. 3 | s. Xmed |
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| Paris, BN lat. 2157 | s. XI1/3 | fol. 8-171 | Ms. Pi | St. Martial, Limoges; catalogue;
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| Paris, BN lat. 4212 | s. IX/X |
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| Paris, BN lat. 4213 |
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| Paris, BN lat. 4214 | s. XIV |
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| Paris, BN lat. 12638 |
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| Paris, BN lat. 13798 |
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| Paris, BN n.a. lat.
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| Rouen, Bibliothèque
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| Silos, Archivo del
Monasterio 1 |
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| Silos, Archivo del
Monasterio frg. 5-16 |
s. X |
several fragments |
Nájera (possibly same
Ms. as Archivo Historico Nacional Clero. Carpeta 1030,
num. 24, see above); Hill
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| Saint-Omer,
Bibliothèque Municipale 548 |
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| Troyes, Bibliothèque
Municipale 280 |
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Clairvaux; catalogue;
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| Würzburg,
Universitätsbibliothek M. ch. f. 184 |
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| Valenciennes,
Bibliothèque Municipale 285 (275) |
s. IXex |
fol. 2-123 |
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| Valvanera, Archivo del
Monasterio s.n. |
A.D. 954 |
fol. 1-120v |
Ms.Vv | Valvanera or St. Millán de Cogolla |
| Vatican, Biblioteca
Apostolica Vaticana reg. lat 1025 |
s. XII |
fol. 1v-114v |
Ms.Va | Vendôme; not
yet digitized. |
| Vienna,
Nationalbibliothek Ser. nov. 4287 |
s. IX/X |
2 fol. |
fragm. |
catalogue |
Fragments:
| St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 277 | s. IX |
pp.178-178
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from ch. 25.3 (Fructuosus, Regula monachorum, ch. 15) |
| St.
Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 914 |
s. IXin |
pp. 191-192 |
from ch. 25.3 (Fructuosus, Regula monachorum,
ch. 15) and from ch. 59.7. |
Literature (for more, click here):
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- Dubreucq, Alain, ‘Smaragde de Saint-Mihiel et son temps: Enseignement et bibliothèques à l’époque carolingienne’, in: Mélanges de la Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne 7 (1986), pp. 7-36.
- Kardong, Terence P., ‘The Earliest Commentator on RB: Smaragdus on Benedict’s Prologue’, in: American Benedictine Review 55 (2004), pp. 171-193.
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Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe: Fourteen
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Fathers: Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel and the Reception of
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