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The learned theologian Radbertus, a prolific writer who sometimes used the name Paschasius, was a monk of the abbey of St. Peter at Corbie who served as its abbot from ca. 842 to his death in ca. 860. He is probably best known for his _De sacramentis_ (a.k.a. _De corpore et sanguine Domini_) with its exposition of the doctrine of the Real Presence, for his commentary on Matthew in twelve books, and for his Marian _De partu Virginis_. Radbertus was buried in the church of St. John at Corbie. In 1073, after miracles had been reported at his tomb, he was translated to the abbey's church of St. Peter.
Some period-pertinent images of St. Paschasius Radbertus:
a) as portrayed in relief on his later eleventh-century tombstone at Corbie:
http://tinyurl.com/cvbd35
b) as depicted in an earlier twelfth-century copy of his _De sacramentis_ with further writings by St. Augustine of Hippo and by St. Lanfranc of Canterbury (1110; London, BL, Harley MS 3061, fol. 1r):
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/illmanus/harlmanucoll/f/zoomify76142.html
c) as twice depicted (writing; offering his book to St. Peter; grayscale view) in an earlier twelfth-century copy from Corbie of his _De sacramentis_ (betw. 1124 and 1142; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 12299, fol. 1r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b107212545/f5.item.zoom
d) as twice depicted by Jean of Amiens and collaborators in a later twelfth-century copy from Corbie of part (bks. 9-12) of his commentary on Matthew and his commentary on Psalm 44 (betw. 1151 and 1176; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 12298):
1) instructing the monks of Saint-Riquier (fol. 2r):
http://tinyurl.com/gpu5foa
Expandable view (grayscale):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9077651s/f3.item.zoom
2) presenting his commentary on Ps. 44 to the nuns of Soissons (fol. 177v):
http://tinyurl.com/h3nusny
Expandable view (grayscale):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9077651s/f180.item.zoom
Best,
John Dillon
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