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Vita sancti Galli (Walahfrid Strabo)

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Latin account of the life and miracles of St Gall, one of Columbanus’ disciples and founder of St. Gall, written by Walahfrid Strabo. It was written to supersede Wetti’s reworking of an earlier life of the saint (Vita vetustissima) and like Wetti’s version, was commissioned by Gozbert, abbot of St. Gall. BHL 3247-3249.

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Admont, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 2 

incipit: Cum praeclaras sancti viri Columbani   

f. 171v–f. 176r

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Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS lat. 4° 505 

ff. 1–78  

Text

Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 477 

ff. 1–95  

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Epinal, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 147/ff. 8-188 

Incomplete.

ff. 46v–60v  

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London, British Library, MS Additional 22170 

ff. 2–99  

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 560 

pp. 8–259   

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 562 

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 572 

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Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, MS Aug. 4°.17.5 

ff. 1v–8v, 25r–40v, 9r–24v, 41r–52v  

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Krusch, Bruno (ed.), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (II), MGH Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 4, Hanover, 1902.

Digital MGH: <link>

280–337

[tr.] Joynt, Maud, The life of St Gall, Translations of Christian Literature, London, New York and Toronto: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Macmillan, 1927.

Secondary sources (select)

Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters, Online: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012–present. URL: <https://www.geschichtsquellen.de>. 

abstract:

Das digitale Repertorium „Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters“ ist ein quellenkundliches und bibliographisches Nachschlagewerk zu den erzählenden Geschichtsquellen des mittelalterlichen Deutschen Reiches für die Zeit von ca. 750 bis ca. 1500. Hervorgegangen ist es aus dem lateinisch verfassten „Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi“ (11 Bände, 1962-2007). Die Deutschland betreffenden Geschichtsquellen dieses europäischen Gemeinschaftswerks wurden damals von der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften beigesteuert. In erweitertem Umfang werden sie seit 2012 im Web digital publiziert und fortgesetzt. Der Datenbestand wird dabei in kritischer Auswertung der Forschungsliteratur kontinuierlich aktualisiert und um neue Inhalte ergänzt.

[id. 4683.] direct link

MIRABILE, Online: Studio del Medioevo Latino, 2009–present. URL: <http://www.mirabileweb.it>. 

abstract:

MIRABILE è un knowledge management system per lo studio e la ricerca sulla cultura medievale promosso dalla Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino e dalla Fondazione Ezio Franceschini ONLUS di Firenze.

direct link

Kenney, James F., “Chapter III: The Irish church in the ‘Celtic’ period”, in: James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Revised ed., 11, New York: Octagon, 1966. 156–287.

206–207 [id. 50. ‘iii. Life by Walahfrid Strabo’]