Kilian (Bruder Kilian von Meiningen, fl. early fifteenth century)

Kilian (Bruder Kilian von Meiningen, fl. early fifteenth century) OM. German Franciscan friar from the Meiningen friary (Würzburg diocese) who translated in 1424 the so-called Legenda major of Hedwig von Schlesien (d. 1243, the Aunt of Elisabeth von Thüringen) into German: Daz Lebin Sent Hedewigs (see surviving MS Schleusingen, Bibliothek des naturhistorischen Museums G 189, manuscript copied/written in Erfurt). This translation was probably made at the request of the widowed Countess Mechthild von Henneberg (1368-1425), who considered herself to be a family member of the saint. According to the colophon of the translation, the original Latin text would also have been a Franciscan production.

Works

• Daz Lebin Sent Hedewigs Daz Lebin Sent Hedewigs , ed. Bruno Obermann, in: Schulprogramm Gymnasium Schleusingen (1880), 2-23

  ed. Bruno Obermann, in: Schulprogramm Gymnasium Schleusingen (1880), 2-23

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• Die Legende der heiligen Hedwig. In der Ãœbersetzung des Kilian von Meiningen Die Legende der heiligen Hedwig. In der Ãœbersetzung des Kilian von Meiningen , ed. Sabine Seelbach (Münster i.W.: Aschendorff, 2016). Edition based on MS Schleusingen, Bibliothek des naturhistorischen Museums G 189, manuscript copied/written in Erfurt. See also the 2018 review essay by Wojciech Mrozowicz.

  ed. Sabine Seelbach (Münster i.W.: Aschendorff, 2016). Edition based on MS Schleusingen, Bibliothek des naturhistorischen Museums G 189, manuscript copied/written in Erfurt. See also the 2018 review essay by Wojciech Mrozowicz.

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