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Angelomus of Luxeuil

French Benedictine monk (-855)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ656344 ↗
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Angelomus (died c.895) was a monk and biblical commentator from the Abbey of Luxeuil. He was influenced by Alcuin. He also used Pseudo-Jerome.

Works

Commentarius in Genesin (online)

Enarrationes In Libros Regum (online, 1565 edition online)

Enarrationes In Cantica Canticorum (online)

References

Michael Gorman, The Commentary on Genesis of Angelomus of Luxeuil and Biblical Studies under Lothar, Studi medievali 40 (1999)

Robert G. Babcock, Angelomus and Manuscripts from the Luxeuil Library, Aevum, LXXIV (May–August 2000), 431-440

Notes

External links

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "Angelomus of Luxeuil". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 1. Hamm: Bautz.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1565, 1999, 2000, 1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 0780. For this dossier, Angelomus, Luxeuil and French is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q656344. VIAF identifies the subject as 56967494. The Library of Congress control number is nr93006113. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1565, 1999, 2000 and 1975.

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