Number

lt.021

Title

Vita Domini Nostri Jesu Christi ex quatuor evangeliis

Meditationes Iesus Christi

Name of the Portuguese translation

Vita Christi

Vida de Cristo (pt.021)

Author

Ludolph of Saxony (Late eighteenth century, Saxony - 1377/8, Strasbourg)

Language

Latin

Characterization

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.

Date

XIV century

Place

Eventually Mainz

Extant testimonies

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.

Studies

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.