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Letter from Aldhelm to Wihtfrith

Aldhelm
  • Latin
  • prose
  • Anglo-Latin texts, Letter
A letter from Aldhelm to an English student named Wihtfrith. Wihtfrith intends to study in Ireland, but Aldhelm advises him against it. The form in which the text survives is as a quotation in Book V of William of Malmesbury's Gesta pontificum Anglorum.
Speaker/Addressee
Addressee: Wihtfrith [student addressed by Aldhelm]Wihtfrith ... student addressed by Aldhelm
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Author
Aldhelm
Aldhelm
(d. 709)
abbot of Malmesbury and later, bishop of Sherborne; known as an author of a number of elaborate Latin tracts in prose and in verse
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Language
  • Latin
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Anglo-Latin textsAnglo-Latin texts
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LetterLetter
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Ehwald, Rudolf, Aldhelmi opera, MGH Scriptores. Auctores antiquissimi, 15, Berlin: Weidmann, 1919.
Dmgh.de: <link>
479–480
[tr.] Herren, Michael, “Letters”, in: Michael Lapidge, and Michael Herren, Aldhelm: the prose works, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979..
154–155
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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June 2014, last updated: January 2024
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