Hadoard or Hadoardus was a priest and presumed librarian (''custos librorum'') in

Corbie Abbey Corbie Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in Corbie, Picardy, France, dedicated to Saint Peter. It was founded by Balthild, the widow of Clovis II, who had monks sent from Luxeuil. The Abbey of Corbie became celebrated both for its library a ...

during the ninth century. He is known for two surviving ''collectanea'', or anthologies of extracts. One of these (now Vatican Reg. lat. 1762) draws primarily from the philosophical works of

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...

. It also contains excerpts from

Macrobius Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, usually referred to as Macrobius (fl. AD 400), was a Roman provincial who lived during the early fifth century, during late antiquity, the period of time corresponding to the Later Roman Empire, and when Latin was ...

and

Martianus Capella Martianus Minneus Felix Capella (fl. c. 410–420) was a jurist, polymath and Latin prose writer of late antiquity, one of the earliest developers of the system of the seven liberal arts that structured early medieval education. He was a nati ...

, as well as an introductory poem of 112 lines that echoes classical poets. A collection of excerpts from

St. Augustine Augustine of Hippo ( , ; la, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Afri ...

and other patristic authorities is preserved in Paris, BnF n.a.l. 13381.

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Charles H. Beeson Charles Henry Beeson (1870–1949) was an American classical scholar. His book '' A Primer of Medieval Latin: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry'' (1925) has remained one of the leading texts for learning post-classical Latin. In addition, he was an ...

, ''The Collectaneum of Hadoard'', Classical Philology, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Oct., 1945), pp. 201-222 * Charles H. Besson, ''Lupus of Ferrières and Hadoard'', Classical Philology, 43 (1948), 190-91 *

Bernhard Bischoff Bernhard Bischoff (20 December 1906 – 17 September 1991) was a German historian, paleographer, and philologist; he was born in Altendorf (administrative division of Altenburg, Thuringia), and he died in Munich. Biography He was the son of E ...

, "Hadoard und die Klassikerhss. aus Corbie", Mittelalterliche Studien 1 (Stuttgart 1966) 49-63 * David Ganz, Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance (Sigmaringen, 1990), 93-101. 9th-century Christian clergy Corbie Abbey {{Christian-clergy-stub