Jean Beleth

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Jean Beleth was a twelfth-century liturgist and theologian, possibly of English origin. He is thought to have been rector in a Paris theological college[1].

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[edit] Life

Beleth is recorded at Tiron in 1135, studying at Chartres around that time, probably teaching theology in Paris, and recorderd in 1182 at Amiens.

[edit] Works

His Summa de Ecclesiasticis Officiis is a manual and now a source for the Christian liturgy of his time; it was later printed (Rationale divinorum officiorum), and has been dated to 1162[2].

[edit] Jean Belet de Vigny

The 19th century editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica claimed that Jean Belet de Vigny (fl. 14th century) edited many important works including the edition and translation into French of the hagiography known as the Legenda Sanctorum (Golden Legend). Considering that one of the original authors of the hagiography most frequently named is one "Johannes Beleth", it is more likely that the 14th-century first French edition was a translation from a version of the Golden Legend written by Beleth.

[edit] Source

  • Pierce Butler Legenda Aurea - Légende Dorée - Golden Legend: A Study of Caxtons Golden Legend, John hopkins University dissertation, 1899
  • Henry Summerson Jean Beleth in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004

[edit] Reference

  • Herbert Douteil (editor) (1976), Johannis Beleth Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biograpy
  2. ^ I - Chapitre Xi

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