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Vita sancti Briomagli

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Life of St Brioc (Briomaglus). BHL 1463.

Manuscript witnesses

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Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 814

Shorter version.

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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 1149

Copy.

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Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 1394

U 119. Longer version. The chapters have been arranged into a somewhat different order of appearance.

pp. 49–82

Sources

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[crit. ed.] [tr.] Vallerie-Drapier, Gwenn, “Édition critique et traduction des Vitae Briocci”, Mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes 2, 1994.

[ed.] Plaine, François, Vie inédite de saint Brieuc, évêque et confesseur (420–515): texte latin avec prolégomènes en français, Saint-Brieuc: L. Conor-Grenier, 1883.

Rouen MS.

[ed.] Plaine, François, “Vita sancti Brioci: episcopi et confessoris ab anonymo suppari conscripta”, Analecta Bollandiana 2 (1883): 161–190.

Internet Archive: <link>

Plaine did not print the epilogue (see Poncelet).

[ed.] Poncelet, Albert, “Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum latinorum bibliothecae publicae Rotomagensis: Appendix”, Analecta Bollandiana 23 (1904): 233–275.

Internet Archive: <link>

[‘Appendix VIII: Epilogus Vitae S. Briomagli’] Epilogue.

[ed.] [tr.] Klausner, David N. (ed.), Records of early drama: Wales, Records of Early Drama, 18, Toronto, London: University of Toronto Press, British Library, 2005.

Internet Archive: <link>

78–80 (edition); 331–333 (translation) Select episode.

Secondary sources (select)

Bourgès, André-Yves, “Le dossier hagiographique des origines de l’évêché de Saint-Brieuc: un silence chargé de sens [8 mai 2019]”, André-Yves Bourgès, Hagio-historiographie médiévale [blog], Online, 2019–. URL: <https://hagiohistoriographiemedievale.blogspot.com/2019/05/le-dossier-hagiographique-des-origines.html>.

Tanguy, Bernard, “De Briomaglus à Briocus: á propos de la Vita sancti Brioccii”, Britannia Monastica 18 (2016): 13–30.

Morin, Stéphane, “Réflexion sur la réécriture de la Vie de saint Brieuc au XII^e siècle: Briomaglus, Primael et Brioccius au temps de la réforme grégorienne”, in: Joëlle Quaghebeur, and Sylvain Soleil (eds), Le pouvoir et la foi au Moyen Âge en Bretagne et dans l’Europe de l’Ouest: mélanges en mémoire du professeur Hubert Guillotel, 13, 14, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 243–259.

OpenEdition – Published online in 2020: <link>

Poulin, Joseph-Claude, L’hagiographie bretonne du Haut Moyen Âge. Repertoire raisonné, Beihefte der Francia, 69, Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2009.

– PDF: <link>

73–84

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.

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