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Letter from Aldhelm to Cellán

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Letter from Aldhelm in reply to Cellán (Lat. Cellanus), abbot of Perrona, Neustria (modern Péronne, Picardy). The form in which the text survives is as a quotation in Book V of William of Malmesbury's Gesta pontificum Anglorum, along with Cellán's letter.

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[ed.] Ehwald, Rudolf, Aldhelmi opera, MGH Scriptores. Auctores antiquissimi, 15, Berlin: Weidmann, 1919.

Dmgh.de: <link>

499 [id. 10. ‘ad Cellanum’]

[tr.] Herren, Michael, “Letters”, in: Michael Lapidge, and Michael Herren, Aldhelm: the prose works, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979..

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[ed.] [tr.] Winterbottom, Michael, and Rodney M. Thomson, Gesta pontificum Anglorum: The history of the English bishops, 2 vols, vol. 1: Text and translation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

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