Texts
Vita sancti Clitauci‘Life of St Clydog’
- Latin
- prose
Latin legend of Clydog of Merthyr Clydog (modern-day Clodock in Herefordshire). BHL 1864.
Author
Anonymous.
Manuscripts
- Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 17110E = Book of Llandaff (Liber Landavensis) [s. xii1]cols 225–228
- London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian A xiv ff. 1-105 = Vitae sanctorum Wallensium [s. xii]ff. 84v–86rVersion in which the order of the material has been somewhat re-arranged.
Language
- Latin
Form
prose (primary)
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.] [tr.] Guy, Ben, “Vita sancti Clitauci (Liber Landavensis / Vespasian A. xiv)”, Seintiau, Online. URL: <https://www.welshsaints.ac.uk/edition/texts/prose/VClit_LL-V/edited-text.eng.html>.
[ed.] Du Sollier, Jean-Baptiste, Jean Pinius, Guillaume Cuperus, and Pierre Boschius, Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, vel a catholicis scriptoribus celebrantur, 68 vols, vol. 37: August III (13-19), Antwerp: Ioannes Meursius, 1737.
733 John Tynemouth version.
Secondary sources (select)
Charles-Edwards, T. M., “9. Kinship and status”, in: Charles-Edwards, T. M., Wales and the Britons, 350–1064, History of Wales, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 816 pp. 293–313.
305–306
Davies, John Reuben, The Book of Llandaf and the Norman church in Wales, Studies in Celtic History 21, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003.
94–96
Wakeford, Mark Reginald, “The British church and Anglo-Saxon expansion: the evidence of saints’ cults”, PhD thesis, Durham University, 1998.
Durham e-Theses: <link>
151–162
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