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A cartulary of the monastery of Landévennec. It largely consists of records purporting to document gifts of land, property and privileges to Gwenolé (Winwaloe), founder and patron saint of the monastery, many of them from Gradlon, the legendary king in Brittany.

Cartulary of Quimperlé

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GurhedenGurheden

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Cartulary of the abbey of St Croix at Quimperlé, compiled by Gurheden in the first half of the 12th century.

Cartulary of Redon

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Cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Sauveur in Redon, written in Latin in the 11th century and updated until the 12th century. In its extant, incomplete form, the collection contains 391 charters, the majority of which relate to the 9th or early 10th century, while the latest charter is dated to 1081. The work is an important source for proper names in Old Breton.

Chronicon Briocense

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Latin chronicle compiled between the late 14th and early 15th century, which though left incomplete, aimed at describing a full history of Brittany. It incorporates a wide range of sources, including historical, hagiographical and archival materials. The work is anonymous and may have been written and compiled by Hervé Le Grant, a Breton notary with access to ducal archives.

De sancto Iudicaelo rege historia

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Ingomar

Ingomar

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Latin Life of Iudic-hael

Excerpta de libris Romanorum et Francorum

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An early legal Latin collection of well over 60 chapters dealing with matters of criminal law in northwestern France. Its date and provenance are both uncertain, but Breton origins are often assumed, partly on the basis of Old Breton glosses in the earliest manuscript witnesses. It is considered to be a principal source for the relationship between Bretons (the Britons in Armorica) and Franks as it prevailed in the very early middle ages.

Homelia die natali sancti Winwaloei (Wrdisten)

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Wrdisten

Wrdisten (Gurdisten)

(fl. 9th century)

Abbot of Landévennec and author of a Life of St Winwaloe/Gwenolé.

Wrdisten’s sermon for the feast of St Winwaloe. BHL 8959.

Hymnus ad matutinum in natali sancti Winwaloei

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beg. Aurea gemma floridis

A hymn for the feast of St Winwaloe/Gwenolé.

Hymnus alphabeticus ad sanctum Winwaloeum

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beg. Alme, dignanter supplicum

Clemens of LandévennecClemens of Landévennec

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Clemens of LandévennecClemens of Landévennec

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A hymn for St Winwaloe/Gwenolé written by Clemens, monk of Landévennec. The main piece is an abecedarius, beg. Alme, dignanter supplicum, preceded by a brief prose preface and poem written in pentameters (beg. Ecce tuo Clemens hymnum construxit honori), which attribute the work to Clemens.

Vita abbreviata sancti Winwaloei

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An abbreviated version of Wrdisten’s Life of St Winwaloe, in 21 lectiones, produced perhaps in northern France. BHL 8961.

Vita brevior sancti Winwaloei

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Shorter version of the Latin Life of Winwaloeus (Gwenolé), abridged from the longer version written by Wrdisten. BHL suppl. 8956d. In addition to being generally shorter, it also adds to it by borrowing an episode from the vita of St Ethbin, in which Christ appears to Gwenolé and Ethbin as a leper.

Vita compendiosa sancti Winwaloei

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Bernard (Jacques) [d. 1652]

Bernard (Jacques) ... d. 1652

(1589–1652)

Jesuit hagiographer.

A short redaction of Wrdisten’s vita of St Winwaloe from Quimper MS 16, created by the Jesuit Jacques Bernard (d. 1652) for inclusion in the Acta sanctorum (Martius I). BHL 8964.

Vita I sancti Samsonis

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First extant Latin Life of St Samson, bishop of Dol. BHL 7478-7479.

Vita sancti Briomagli

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Life of St Brioc (Briomaglus). BHL 1463.

Vita sancti Conuuoionis

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Life of St Conwoion, who in 832 founded Saint-Sauveur de Redon. The text consists of a prologue and 11 chapters. BHL 1946.

Vita sancti Cunuali

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Latin Life of St Cunwal (Lat. Cunualus), bishop of Tréguier, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century. BHL 2018b.

Vita sancti Euflami

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Latin Life of St Efflam. BHL 2665.

Vita sancti Goeznovei

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William the BretonWilliam the Breton

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BHL 3608-3609.

Vita sancti Gurthierni

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GurhedenGurheden

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A Breton Latin Life of St Gurthiern. He is said to have been a Welsh prince, who after inadvertently killing his sister's son, became a hermit, at first in Britain and finally, in Brittany, where he was granted Anaurot, i.e. Quimperlé, and founded its original church. The text is transmitted in the Cartulary of Quimperlé and consists there of three parts: a genealogical section, the Life proper and the story of posthumous miracles attributed to relics of the saint. BHL 3720-3722.

Vita sancti Senani (breviary)

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A Latin work in nine lessons relating the Life of St Senán of Inis Cathaig. It was written for use in Brittany and derives, according to Pádraig Ó Riain, from the metrical version of the saint's Life.

Vita sancti Winwaloei (Wrdisten)

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Wrdisten

Wrdisten (Gurdisten)

(fl. 9th century)

Abbot of Landévennec and author of a Life of St Winwaloe/Gwenolé.

Longer version of the Latin Life of Winwaloeus (Guénolé) written by Wrdisten. BHL 8957–8958. The bulk of the work is in prose (BHL 8957), while the final part gives a shorter, metrical account (BHL 8958).

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