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Retractationes (Gerald of Wales)

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Short tract written by Gerald of Wales towards the end of his career, in which he admits to errors in some of his previous writings and also defends himself against polemical criticisms. The title echoes that of Augustine’s work of the same name.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A i/ff. 56-160

ff. 135v–136v

MS

London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A i/ff. 56-160

f. 135v–f. 136v

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[ed.] Brewer, J. S., Giraldi Cambrensis opera, 8 vols, vol. 1: Invectionum libellus; Symbolum electorum, London, 1861.

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425–427 [‘Appendix: Retractiones’]

Secondary sources (select)

Lapidge, Michael, and Richard Sharpe, A bibliography of Celtic-Latin literature, 400-1200, Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources, Ancillary Publications, 1, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1985.

26 [id. 68.]

Bartlett, Robert, Gerald of Wales, 1146–1232, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.

Hardy, T. D., Descriptive catalogue of materials relating to the history of Great Britain and Ireland to the end of the reign of Henry VII, vol. 3: From A.D. 1200 to A.D. 1327, London: Longman, Green and Roberts, 1871.

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[id. 126.]