Vita abbreviata sancti Winwaloei
- Latin
- prose
An abbreviated version of Wrdisten’s Life of St Winwaloe, in 21 lectiones, produced perhaps in northern France. BHL 8961.
Le Bourdellès (pp. 47-48): “l’auteur veut rivaliser en beau latin fleuri avec Wurdisten, mais il varie sans cesse l’expression par rapport à son modèle et bien entendu, lorsqu’il retrouve l’épisode de l'oie, ne garde pas oga, remplacé par anser. La diffusion des manuscrits dans le nord de la France ferait songer également à une fabrication des Bretons de Montreuil. Cependant, comme l’auteur supprime tous les noms propres bretons, sauf celui du héros principal, on ne peut s’empêcher de penser qu’il ignorait le breton, et nous sommes dès lors démunis d’indication sur le lieu de composition de cette oeuvre d’un habile latinist inconnu.”
- Laudem Deo dicturi
A manuscript of Vienna (Brett, via Le Bourdellès).
- Latin
“au XIIe siècle au plus tard” (Poulin 2003).
See more The manuscript evidence suggests a northern French provenance. Le Bourdellès (see quotation) does not rule out the possibility that the author was a Breton at Montreuil-sur-Mur, but calls attention to the omission of proper names from the text and argues that they could be explained by the assumption that the author did not know Breton.
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