- Jean Beleth
Jean Beleth was a twelfth-century liturgist and theologian, possibly of English origin. He is thought to have been rector in a Paris theological college ["Concise Dictionary of National Biograpy"] .
Life
Beleth is recorded at Tiron in 1135, studying at
Chartres around that time, probably teaching theology inParis , and recorderd in 1182 atAmiens .Works
His "Summa de Ecclesiasticis Officiis" is a manual and now a source for the Christian
liturgy of his time; it was later printed ("Rationale divinorum officiorum"), and has been dated to 1162 [ [http://www.abbaye-saint-benoit.ch/gueranger/institutions/volume01/volume0111.htm I - Chapitre Xi ] ] .Jean Belet de Vigny
The 19th century editions of the "
Encyclopedia Britannica " claimed that Jean Belet de Vigny (fl. 14th century) edited many important works including the edition and translation into French of thehagiography known as the "Legenda Sanctorum" "(Golden Legend )." Considering that one of the original authors of the hagiography most frequently named is one "Johannes Beleth", it is more likely that the 14th-century first French edition was a translation from a version of the Golden Legend written by Beleth.ource
* Pierce Butler "Legenda Aurea - Légende Dorée - Golden
* Henry Summerson "Jean Beleth" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004References
*Herbert Douteil (editor) (1976), "Johannis Beleth Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis"
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External links
*de icon [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/j/Johannes_bel.shtml BBK page]
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