Alulfus from Tournai

Alulfus von Tournai ( lat.Alulfus Tornacensis ) (* around 1075 in Tournai , † around 1144 in Tournai) was a Benedictine monk of the 12th century and author of an anthology of the commentaries on Moralia in Iob as well as a collection of sentences and thoughts from the works of St. Gregor and was entitled Gregorialis .

Life

Partial view of the former Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin von Tournai

Alulfus von Tournai was born in Tournai around 1070. His father was also born in Tournai in the 11th century and was the great cantor of the Siger Cathedral. Alulfus, who was himself a canon , served as librarian and cantor of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin von Tournai for 47 years .

In 1095 he adopted the Benedictine rules and turned to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin in Tournai. During the heyday of the cathedral school in Tournai, his abbot, Odo von Tournai, who later became Bishop of Cambrai Odo von Cambrai, exhorted him to compose a collection of clauses from the Holy Scriptures that were to be found in the works of St. Gregory the Great are included.

These works seem to have exerted a special attraction in the Middle Ages , for three writers before Alulfus and sixteen after him had taken care of them. However, Alulfus differed from the many other compilers in that he merely took the existing ideas from the scriptures, a kind that he had made his own. His works contain commentaries on Scripture and are divided into three books: the first includes the Pentateuch and the historical books of the Old Testament ; the second the psalms and the prophets ; the third is the New Testament , which came to be known as the Opus exceptionum Gregorianum . The manuscript was kept in four volumes in the library of St. Martin in Tournai. The third book was printed in four volumes in Paris and Strasbourg in 1516 .

Sixtus of Siena (1520–1569) praised Alulfus for his scientific knowledge and his orthodoxy . Hériman of Tournai (1095–1147) a contemporary and third abbot of St. Martin in Tournai stated his death in 1144 in the forty-eighth year of his profession.

Works

Alulfus Tornacensis: De Expositione Novi Testamenti. Retrieved September 20, 2019 (Latin).
Arnulfus de Tornaco, (Alulfus Tornacensis): Alulfus sive Arnulfus de Tornaco, Gregoriale, pars IV, de diversis senteniis. Retrieved September 20, 2019 (Latin).
Alulphus Tornacensis: Gregoriana super nouum testame (n) tum: Ex operibus beati Gregorij gloriosissimi pape et co (n) fessoris, insigne, pium ac religiosum exceptionum opus super nouum testame (n) tum. 1516, Retrieved September 20, 2019 (Latin).

literature

De Charles-Louis Richard: Bibliothèque sacrée, ou Dictionnaire universel, historique, dogmatique, Canonique, Géographique et Chronologique Des Sciences Ecclésiastiqique . 1822, p. 51 ( Google Books [accessed September 19, 2019]).

Web links

Frédéric Hennebert: Biographie nationale de Belgique. In: ALUF, ALULFUS, alias ALALFUS. Biographie nationale de Belgique , accessed on September 19, 2019 (French).
Literature by and about Alulfus von Tournai in the catalog of the German National Library
Alulfus Tornacensis OSB. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .

Individual evidence

↑ Gregor's commentary on Job or Moralia, sive Expositio in Iob , sometimes also called Magna Moralia (not to be confused with Aristotle Magna Moralia ), was written between 578 and 595 when Gregory was at the court of Tiberius II in Constantinople, but not until then ended after having been in Rome for several years.
↑ Alulfus Tornacensis: Gregorialis. Retrieved September 19, 2019 (Latin).
↑ Alulfus Tornacensis: Enluminures. Retrieved September 19, 2019 (Latin).
↑ H. Thiry-Van Bouggenhoudt: Biography national: (AZ); 28 (table general); 29-44 (Suppl. 1-16), p. 239. L´Académie Royale, 1866, accessed on September 19, 2019 .
↑ Charles Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws Volume 2, p. 35, 1804, accessed September 19, 2019 .
↑ Michael Borgolte, Julia Dücker, Marcel Müllerburg, Bernd Schneidmüller (eds.): Integration and disintegration of cultures in the European Middle Ages . De Gruyter Academy Research, 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-004973-1 , p. 293 .

personal data
SURNAME	Alulfus from Tournai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Aluminum; Alulfus; Alalfus; Tornacensis, alulphus; from Tournai, Alulfus; Armarius, Alulf; Kantor, Alulf; from Saint-Martin, Alulf; from Tournai, Alulf; de Tournai, Alulphe; de Saint-Martin, Alulphe; Bibliothécaire, Alulphe; Moine, Alulphe; de Tornaco, Alulfus; Tornacensis, alulfus; Monachus Sancti Martini Tornacensis, Alulphus; Sancti Martini Tornacensis Monachus, Alulphus; Alulfus tornacensis, Paterius; Pseudo-Paterius, C; Pseudo-Paterius, C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Benedictine monk
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1075
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tournai
DATE OF DEATH	around 1144
Place of death	Tournai

[1] Gregor's commentary on Job or Moralia, sive Expositio in Iob , sometimes also called Magna Moralia (not to be confused with Aristotle Magna Moralia ), was written between 578 and 595 when Gregory was at the court of Tiberius II in Constantinople, but not until then ended after having been in Rome for several years.

[2] Alulfus Tornacensis: Gregorialis. Retrieved September 19, 2019 (Latin).

[3] Alulfus Tornacensis: Enluminures. Retrieved September 19, 2019 (Latin).

[4] H. Thiry-Van Bouggenhoudt: Biography national: (AZ); 28 (table general); 29-44 (Suppl. 1-16), p. 239. L´Académie Royale, 1866, accessed on September 19, 2019 .

[5] Charles Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws Volume 2, p. 35, 1804, accessed September 19, 2019 .

[6] Michael Borgolte, Julia Dücker, Marcel Müllerburg, Bernd Schneidmüller (eds.): Integration and disintegration of cultures in the European Middle Ages . De Gruyter Academy Research, 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-004973-1 , p. 293 .