25 septembre 2019
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Isabelle Rava-Cordier, « Les sources monastiques dans le recueil d’exempla du frère sachet », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.132129
Brother Sachet’s collection of exempla was compiled in the province of Provence. This collection, devoid of prologue, gathers two thousand fifty seven exempla together in one hundred thirty three chapters. Generally the compiler ends his narratives with a quotation, mostly biblical, but sometimes of monastic origins. The explicit attributions refer to Saint Barnard (eleven), Saint Anselm, Saint Jerome and Saint Gregory the Great. These quotations were not always selected directly by Sachet himself as some of the exempla already contained the final quotation (such as in exempla from Jacques of Vitry’s Sermones Vulgares largely used by Sachet). But it seems that the author did use Saint Barnard’s quotations in his sermons and also those in one of Saint Anselm’s prayers for the Virgin. The seventeen narratives using monastic sources refer to Vitae patrum and Saint Antony’s life, Barlaam and Josaphat’s life and Gregory the Great’s Dialogues. Concerning the previous sources, Jacques of Vitry’s mediation still seems possible. Among the numerous exempla devoid of an explicit source, some narratives show a resemblance to those written by Bede, Pseudo-Turpin, Guibert of Nogent, Gautier of Coincy, an anonymous Cistercian author of the latin manuscript 15912 (Paris, BnF) and Caesarius of Heisterbach. Only one exemplum seems to have been copied verbatim either from the Vita sancti Willelmi itself, or from the copy by Orderic Vital in his Ecclesiastical History.