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Vita prima sancti Neoti
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First Latin Life of St Neot, thought to have been composed in the middle of the 11th century.
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[ed.] [tr.] Dumville, David N., and Michael Lapidge [eds.], The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a collaborative edition, vol. 17. The annals of St. Neots with Vita prima Sancti Neoti, Cambridge: Brewer, 1985.
111–142
[ed.] Whitaker, John, The life of Saint Neot: the oldest of all the brothers to King Alfred, London: J. J. Stockdale, 1809.
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339–365 (Appendix II)
Secondary sources (select)
Biggs, Frederick M., and Deborah A. Oosterhouse (eds), Abbo of Fleury, Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and Acta sanctorum, Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, 1, Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications, 2001.
352–353 [‘Neotus’]
