Arnoldus Leodiensis
Arnoldus Leodiensis, was a monk of the Dominican Order and a Latin author who is believed to have lived in the vicinity of Liège, then a city of the Episcopal Principality of Liège, in present-day Belgium.
Biography
Arnoldus is known from his Alphabetum narrationum : the initials of the sentences of its prologue form the acrostic "Arnuldus de Serain", Seraing being a commune near Liège. This way of encoding intellectual responsibility was well established in medieval tradition, and Arnoldus's identity as author was established through the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century work of Barthélemy Hauréau and John Alexander Herbert.Works
Arnoldus created the Alphabetum narrationum, a working tool for preachers composed between 1297 and 1308. The text listed exempla, giving each story a number of thematic keywords and listing them alphabetically with a sophisticated system of cross-references.A fourteenth-century copy of the Alphabetum narrationum is held in the collection of the Royal Library of Belgium, Manuscripts Department, under the reference number KBR ms. IV 14.
The work was translated into a number of European languages, including English.