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Vita sancti Iltuti (Vespasian A xiv)

  • Latin
  • prose
Manuscripts
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London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian A xiv ff. 1-105 = Vitae sanctorum Wallensium [s. xii]
ff. 43v–52r
rubric: ‘Incipit vita Iltuti abbatis’
Latin, Cornishs. xiiCornish manuscripts, English manuscriptsvellum
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Language
  • Latin
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Vita sancti Iltuti (John of Tynemouth)Vita sancti Iltuti (John of Tynemouth)Abridged version of the Life of St Illtud from the collection of John of Tynemouth.Vita sancti Samsonis (Liber Landavensis)Vita sancti Samsonis (Liber Landavensis)

The Latin life of St Samson of Dol as found in the Book of Llandaf, which is an abridged version of Book I of the Vita prima.

Classification

Subjects

Illtud
Illtud
(fl. 5th/6th century)
Welsh saint, first abbot of Llanilltud Fawr (Llantwit Major).
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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.] [tr.] Wade-Evans, A. W., and Scott Lloyd [ed.], Vitae sanctorum Britanniae et genealogiae, 2nd ed., Studies in Medieval Wales, Cardiff: Welsh Academic Press, 2013.  
abstract:
This work, first published in 1944, provides the most reliable texts of the Lives of Welsh saints based upon the Cotton MS in the British Library from 1200. Out of print for over 50 years this work is still the standard edition of these Lives and is still widely used by scholars today. As well as being the major text for our information concerning the Welsh saints it also contain some of the earliest Arthurian material and are the first to make Arthur a king.

The Editor has taken this opportunity to add some additional material in the way of:

  • A new introduction reviewing the scholarship on the subject of Welsh saints over the last 60 years
  • Translation and detailed commentary on the Life of St. Beuno (Buchedd Beuno) and St. David by A. W. Wade-Evans, not included in the original edition.
The lives of eleven saints are included in their original language with a facing page English translation for nine of them. Also included are six genealogical tracts that provide even more biographical information from medieval Welsh tradition.
(source: Welsh Academic Press)
194–233
[ed.] Howlett, David, “Little lections in Cambrian composition: Vita S. Gundleii and Vita S. Iltuti”, Peritia 15 (2001): 31–47.  
abstract:
This article presents texts of Vita Sancti Gundleii § 11 edited from London, British Library, ms Cotton Vespasian A.XIV and ms Cotton Titus D.XXII, and Vita Sancti Iltuti Prologue and § 7 edited from ms Cotton Vespasian A.XIV. These three passages, which discuss education and composition both verbal and architectural, offer detailed accounts of aesthetic theory as understood and practised among the Welsh during the twelfth century.

Prologue and § 7.

[ed.] De Smedt, Charles, François Van Ortroy, Hippolyte Delehaye, Albert Poncelet, and Paul Peeters, Acta sanctorum, 68 vols, vol. 65: November III [5–8], Paris, 1910.  
November, part 3 (Nov 5-8).
Internet Archive: <link>
225–236 (text); 219–225 (introduction)
[ed.] Rees, William Jenkins, Lives of the Cambro British saints: of the fifth and immediate succeeding centuries, from ancient Welsh & Latin mss. in the British Museum and elsewhere, Llandovery: William Rees, 1853.
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158–182
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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March 2026, last updated: June 2026
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