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Timeline for Johannes von Dambach (Iohannes de Tambaco) OP
1308: Joins Dominican Order at Strasbourg at the age of about 20 1320s/30s: Studies at Köln under Meister Eckhart OP, then at Paris alongside Johannes Tauler OP 1338: Expelled with his brethren from Strasbourg due to an interdict issued in 1324 by John XXII - Begins writing his Consolatio theologiae (acc. Prefatio): "Sic et ego ab impugnatoribus iusticiae pariter et obedientie sanctae romanae ecclesiae: a propriae mansionis loco eiectus: quandam exilii speciem sustinens: praefatum opus aggressus: ipsum si legentibus paceret: de consolatione theologiae appellandum iudicarem." 1338-40: perhaps living with relatives in Dambach-la-Ville? 1340: Admitted to the Dominican friary in Basel 1341-46: Studying theology at Bologna 1346: Becomes a Master of Theology at Montpellier 1347: Appointed first rector to the Dominicans at the new studium generale in Prague 1348-50: Imperial emissary in papal Avignon 1350-56: Resident in Paris 1356-72: Probably resident in Strasbourg - Completes Consolatio theologiae (1366) 1372: Dies at Strasbourg or possibly Freiburg im Briesgau
Bibliography
Albert Auer, Johannes von Dambach und die Trostbücher vom 11. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert, Münster 1928. - Consolatio theologiae (8 Mss + 1 incunable ca. 1479) - Fortleben = 6 "Excerpten": Typ I: "Accingi" (52 Mss + 2 incunables: 1492, 1493 + 3 early imprints: 1502, 1506, 1509) Typ II: "Excerpt aus Buch N" (2 Mss, never printed) Typ III: "Martyrii palmam" (1 Ms + 1 incunable ca. 1473) Typ IV: "Tres regulae" (13 Mss + 1 incunable: 1486) Typ V: "Speculum patientiae" (1 Ms + 1 early imprint: 1509) Typ VI: misc. fragments - Documented the reception of Thomas of Ireland's Manipulus florum for many classical quotations - Auer's typology & interpretation of the textual history accepted and perpetuated by cataloguers & bibliographers.
Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, Lateinische Dialoge 1200-1400. Literaturhistorische Studie und Repertorium, Mitellateinische Studien und Texte 37, Leiden 2007, pp. 614-24. - Consolatio theologiae = "vollständiger Text" - Typ I: "Accingi" (+ 7 Mss = 59 Mss); Typ IV (+ 2 Mss = 15 Mss)
Piotr Smoliński, De consolatione theologiae Libri I-III. Editio critica (Acta Mediaevalia [Lublin], 21), 2009. - Consolatio theologiae (+ 1 Ms = 9 Mss)
Ronald Rittgers, The Reformation of Suffering: Pastoral Theology and Lay Piety in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany, Oxford, 2012. - "...no work on consolation was excerpted as frequently as [Dambach's] Consolation of Theology...one of the single most important works on consolation in late medieval Germany…" (pp. 55-57).
Chris L. Nighman, "The reception of Manipulus florum in two distinct works by Johannes von Dambach OP: Consolatio theologiae and Consolatorium theologicum," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum n.s. 9 (2024), 27 pp. (forthcoming). - Consolatio theologiae (+ 1 Ms = 10 Mss) - Typ I: "Accingi" (+ 49 Mss = 108 Mss) - Typ IV: "Tres regulae" (+ 17 Mss = 32 Mss) - Argues that Consolatorium theologicum ("Typ I/Accingi") is not an abridged recension of Consolatio theologiae, as Auer thought. Rather, Johannes von Dambach composed it in 1338-41, mostly while in exile, and then transformed it into Consolatio theologiae from 1342 to 1366.
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