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Praefatio, p. 247

# 247 Monumenta Mallerstorfensia
Praeter Monachos, Sanctimonialium quoque congregationem, si non heic, certe Euttingoe, villa haut procul diffita, quondam exstitisse constans persuasio est, & hodiedum supersunt Nomina quarumdam Abbatissarum & Monialium, ad calcem Diplomatarii miscelli B legenda: quas inter eminebat Leukardis, de gente, ut ajunt, Scotorum, quatuor linguarum, patriae suae, graecae, latinae, & theotiseae gnara, quae plures sua manu Codices in Membrana exaravit, hodie subtractos, quarum alicui sequentes versiculi inserti legebantur.


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Leukardis of Mallersdorf <strong>Leukardis of Mallersdorf</strong> <br>(s. xii<sup></sup>) <br>A 12th-century nun of Mallersdorf, a daughter-house of Niedermünster in Bavaria, who according to one late source, was of Irish origin (<em>de gente Scotorum</em>), knew four languages (Irish, Latin, Greek and German) and had a reputation as a scribe, so much so that the monk Laiupold recorded her anniversary.