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Old English Life of Machutus

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An Old English prose life of the Breton saint Machutus/Malo, adapted from the Latin original by Bili, a deacon at Alet. The composition of the vernacular version is likely to been connected with the community of Winchester, which had become home to a cult of a saint in the 10h and 11th centuries.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho A viii

Scorched and damaged in the Cottonian fire. Originally foll. by a homily.

ff. 7–34

Text

London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho B x

Fragment.

f. 66

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[ed.] Yerkes, David, The Old English Life of Machutus, Toronto Old English Series, 9, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.