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Letter from Aldhelm to Heahfrith

Incoming data

A letter from Aldhelm to an Englishman named Heahfrith. It was written to dissuade him from studying in Ireland, preferring the new English learning represented by the teachings of Theodore and Hadrian to the state of learning in Ireland.

Manuscript witnesses

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London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian ix

f. 3

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London, British Library, MS Royal 6 A vi

f. 5

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 146

ff. 95v–100

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

Dmgh.de: <link>

486–494

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

160–164