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Cartulary of Landévennec
prose

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.

De sancto Iudicaelo rege historia
prose
Ingomar
Ingomar
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Latin Life of Iudic-hael
Vita abbreviata sancti Winwaloei
prose

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

Vita brevior sancti Winwaloei
prose
verse

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
prose
Bernard (Jacques) [d. 1652]
Bernard (Jacques) ... d. 1652
(1589–1652)
Jesuit hagiographer.

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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
prose

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

Vita sancti Briomagli
prose

Life of St Brioc (Briomaglus). BHL 1463.

Vita sancti Conuuoionis
prose

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
prose
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
prose

Latin Life of St Efflam. BHL 2665. 

Vita sancti Goeznovei
prose
William the BretonWilliam the Breton
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BHL 3608-3609.

Vita sancti Gurthierni
prose
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)
prose
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)
prose
verse
Wrdisten
Wrdisten (Gurdisten)
(fl. 9th century)
Abbot of Landévennec and author of a Life of St Winwaloe/Gwenolé.

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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).