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Jordan of Saxony, Libellus de principiis Ordinis Praedicatorum, trans. Simon Tugwell

Scholarly translation, medieval primary text

Jordan of Saxony's Libellus de principiis Ordinis Praedicatorum (On the Beginnings of the Order of Preachers), written by Dominic de Guzman's own successor as head of the order within a few years of his death, in Simon Tugwell's scholarly translation for the Classics of Western Spirituality series, is the earliest connected account of Dominic's life and the founding of the Dominican order. Its strength is that Jordan knew Dominic personally and wrote from direct memory of the order's first years. Its limit is that it is a memoir written to serve the young order's own sense of its origins, not an independent biography.

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Reliability Tier
2
A near-contemporary eyewitness memoir in a peer-reviewed scholarly translation series, weighed against its origin as an insider's account written to serve the young order's own self-understanding.
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Scholarly translation of Jordan of Saxony's memoir of Dominic de Guzman and the Dominican order's founding, Classics of Western Spirituality series.
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Author
Jordan of Saxony (trans. Simon Tugwell)
Publisher
Paulist Press, Classics of Western Spirituality series
Publication Year
1982
Source Type
Primary text in translation
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Source Jordan of Saxony, Libellus de principiis Ordinis Praedicatorum, trans. Simon TugwellJordan of Saxony (trans. Simon Tugwell)
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This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
  • Figures, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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