Number
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lt.021
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Title
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Vita Domini Nostri Jesu Christi ex
quatuor evangeliis
Meditationes Iesus Christi
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Name of the Portuguese translation
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Vita Christi
Vida de Cristo (pt.021)
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Author
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Ludolph of Saxony (Late eighteenth century, Saxony - 1377/8,
Strasbourg)
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Language
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Latin
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Characterization
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Biographical
text that talks about the life of Jesus Christ from the information given by
the four Gospels. The life was enriched with comments from Fathers and
scholastics and also moral and dogmatic meditations from the author. See
Lorenzo 1993: 684 and Nascimento, 2001: 126-127.
Belonging
to the Order of Friars Preachers, Ludolph of Saxony was the author of
numerous religious studies, having also written this work. He met a huge
success from the fifteenth century forward.
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Date
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XIV century
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Place
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Eventually Mainz
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Extant testimonies
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Today there are still several manuscript copies and printed texts and
there were made translations in various languages such as Portuguese,
Spanish, Italian, Catalan, etc.
One of the printed texts – located at the State Library of Bavaria -
is online and can
be downloaded for free. Other copies are in the British
Library, Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio (Bolonha), Biblioteca
Nacional da Holanda
(Koninklijke Bibliotheek) and Biblioteca
da Universidade de Sevilha.
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Studies
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References:
BODENSTEDT, Sister Mary Immaculate (1944) The Vita Christi of
Ludolphus the Carthusian Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America
Press.
NASCIMENTO, Aires A.
(2001), “A Vita Christi de Ludolfo de Saxónia, em português: percursos da
tradução e seu presumível responsável”, Euphrosyne, 29, 125-142.
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