About 800 A.D. Alcuin, prompted by his sometime pupil Arn, grouped together three brief commentaries on the Penitential Psalms, Psalm 118 [119] and the Gradual Psalms. The work, prefaced by a dedication letter (Dümmler Nr. 243) and collectively labelled as an ‹Enchiridion›, was demonstrably affected by monastic ideals, and possibly correlated, in a more or less prescriptive sense, to Benedict of Aniane’s upcoming reform of the Benedictine regime of the Opus Dei. The early manuscript tradition reveals that the copy addressed to Arn (whose particular shape Alcuin detailed in a further letter, Dümmler Nr. 259) inspired a number of devotional manuals that originated from the Salzburg milieu.
Alcuin's «Enchiridion in Psalmos» and Its Letters of Presentation
Fravventura, Vera
2016-01-01
Abstract
About 800 A.D. Alcuin, prompted by his sometime pupil Arn, grouped together three brief commentaries on the Penitential Psalms, Psalm 118 [119] and the Gradual Psalms. The work, prefaced by a dedication letter (Dümmler Nr. 243) and collectively labelled as an ‹Enchiridion›, was demonstrably affected by monastic ideals, and possibly correlated, in a more or less prescriptive sense, to Benedict of Aniane’s upcoming reform of the Benedictine regime of the Opus Dei. The early manuscript tradition reveals that the copy addressed to Arn (whose particular shape Alcuin detailed in a further letter, Dümmler Nr. 259) inspired a number of devotional manuals that originated from the Salzburg milieu.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
