Marbod from Rennes

Marbod von Rennes , also Marbodius, (* around 1035 in Le Mans ( Caenomanensis ); † September 11, 1123 near Angers / Anjou ) was a French theologian, poet and writer. He was Bishop of Rennes .

Marbod was educated in Angers (by Rainaldus, a student of Fulbert von Chartres ) and became a canon and archdeacon of the bishop in 1076 and was head of the cathedral school from 1067. In 1096 he became Bishop of Rennes. In old age he retired to the Benedictine monastery of St. Aubin near Angers.

He wrote poems (also love poems), hymns, biographies of saints (including the holy Thais ), letters, a book on rhetorical figures (De ornamentis verborum), a book of Christian advice (Liber decem capitulorum) and a book on precious stones (Liber lapidum), his most popular work. It was translated into some vernacular languages ​​and printed in Vienna as early as 1511 .

His works were printed in Rennes in 1524. An expanded edition of Beaugendre appeared in Paris in 1708.

Fonts

• Jean-Jacques Bourassé (ed.): Patrologia Latina. Volume 171, Paris 1854.
• Antonella Degl'Innocenti (Ed.): Marbodo di Rennes: Vita beati Roberti. Florence 1995.
• Maria Esthera Herrera (Ed.): Marbodo de Rennes Lapidario (Liber lapidum). Paris 2005.
• Walther Bulst (ed.): Marbod von Rennes, Liber decem capitulorum. Winter, Heidelberg 1947.
• Liber de ornamentis verborum (verse 1080). Florence 2000.
• Stone book :
  • Pictorius Villingensis (Ed. With Scholien ): Marbodei Galli poetae vetustissimi de lapidibus preciosis enchiridion. Wechelus, Paris 1531 ( digitized version from the Bavarian State Library in Munich).
    • Allard of Amsterdam, Pictorius Villingensis (ed. With Scholien): Marbodaei Galli Caenomanensis De gemmarum lapidumque pretiosorum formis, naturis atque viribus. Hero Alopecius, Cologne 1539 - ( Google Books ).
  • De lapidis ou Liber lapidum, seu De gemmis, De lapidibus (avant 1090). In: Valérie Gontero-Lauze: Sagesses minérales. Médecine et magie des pierres précieuses au Moyen Âge. Éditions Classiques Garnier, Paris 2010, pp. 151–176.
  • John M. Riddle: Marbode of Rennes' (1035-1123) "De lapidibus" considered as a medical treatise. With text, commentary and CW King's translation. Together with text and translation of Marbode's minor works on stones. Wiesbaden 1977 (= Sudhoffs Archive. Supplement 20).
• Pierre Month: Marbode, Poème des pierres précieuses, XIe siècle, traduit du latin, présenté et annoté ..., suivi de Une lecture symboliste des lapidaires médiévaux, par Claude Louis-Combet. Grenoble 1996.
• R. Leotta (Ed.): Liber decem capitulorum (Livre des X chapitres). Rome 1984.

Sigismond Ropartz published a French translation of his hymns in 1873.

literature

• L. Hernault: Marbode, évêque de Rennes. Sa vie et ses œuvres (1035-1123). Rennes, 1890.
• André Wilmart: Le florilège de Saint-Gatien: contribution à l'étude des poèmes d'Hildebert et de Marbode. Revue bénédictine, Volume 48, 1936, pp. 3-40, 145-181, 245-258
• Walther Bulst : Marbods love letter poems. In: Bernhard Bischoff, Suso Brechter (eds.): Liber floridus: Middle Latin studies. Paul Lehmann on his 65th birthday on July 13, 1949. St. Ottilien, 1950, pp. 287–301, also in Bulst, Latin Middle Ages: Collected Contributions, Heidelberg, 1984, pp. 182–196.
• Antonella Degl'Innocenti: L'opera agiografica di Marbodo de Rennes. Spoleto, 1990
• Rosario Leotta, Carmelo Crimi (ed.): De ornamentis verborum; Liber decem capitulorum: retorica, mitologia e moralità di un vescovo poeta, secc. XI-XII. Florence, 1998

Web links

• Catholic Encyclopedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1490-1544.
2. ↑ Poèmes de Marbode: évêque de Rennes (XIe siècle), traduits en vers français, avec une introduction par Sigismond Ropartz, Rennes, Verdier, 1873

predecessor	Office	successor
Sylvestre de la Guerche	Bishop of Rennes 1096–1123	Rouaud