AURIFABER (GOLDSMID), AEGIDIUS. - Ascetical writer of the Charterhouse of Würzburg (Germany), d. 20 February 1466 as vicar of the Charterhouse of Zierikzee (island of Schouwen, Holland). He composed: Laus cartusiana (on the contemplative life) and Sermones for Sundays and feasts. He is famous for the work Speculum exemplorum ex diversis libris in unum laboriose collectum, which was the most widely circulated book of miracles of the Middle Ages (cf. La Civiltà Cattolica [1905, III], p. 672): from 1481 to 1747 it had 31 editions and 5 translations, among them one in Italian: Specchio universale di esempi, translated by F. Astolfi (Venice 1613). Father Giovanni Major, a Jesuit, produced an improved and enlarged edition of the Speculum (Douai 1603), which circulated widely.
Bibliography3 worksL. Levasseur, Ephemerides Ord. Cart., I, Montreuil 1890, p. 209; S. Autore, Scriptores s. Ordinis Cart., ms. I, pp. 8-12 (Archivio della Gra
BIBL.: L. Levasseur, Ephemerides Ord. Cart., I, Montreuil 1890, p. 209; S. Autore, Scriptores s. Ordinis Cart., ms. I, pp. 8-12 (Archivio della Grande Chartreuse); U. Chevalier, Répertoire des sources historiques du moyen-âge, Biobibliographie, Paris 1877-86, col. 907.
Costa, Gabriele. “Aurifaber (Goldsmid), aegidius.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 412. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/aurifaber-goldsmid-aegidius.
MLA
Costa, Gabriele. “Aurifaber (Goldsmid), aegidius.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 412. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/aurifaber-goldsmid-aegidius.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec2_aurifaber_goldsmid_aegidius,
author = {Costa, Gabriele},
title = {Aurifaber (Goldsmid), aegidius},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {412},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/aurifaber-goldsmid-aegidius}
}
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