Jean de Hocsem

Digitus florum utriusque iuris, 1341

Jean de Hocsem or Jan van Hocsem, Latinized Johannes Hocsemius (1278–1348), was a canon and scholaster of Saint Lambert's Cathedral, Liège.

He was the author of the Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium, a history of the bishops of Liège from 1247 to 1347, the original manuscript of which is now in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels.[1] It is one of the major sources for the history of the War of the Cow. A second manuscript survives in the library of Averbode Abbey.[2] A critical edition of the chronicle by Godefroid Kurth was published in 1927 under the title La chronique de Jean de Hocsem.[3]

In 1341 he wrote a book about canon law, Digitus florum utriusque iuris, one copy of which, in the National Archives (RHCL) in Maastricht, is partly in his own hand.[4]

References

  1. ↑ L'Historiographie en Belgique, exhibition catalogue (Brussels, 1935), p. 22.
  2. ↑ Jean de Hocsem, Johannes Hocsemius, Narrative Sources in the Low Countries. Accessed 24 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Scans available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2268/90817
  4. ↑ Maastricht, RA : ms. 215 on website mmdc.nl.
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