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Vita sancti Galli (Wetti of Reichenau)
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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 Wetti (Wettinus), a monk of Reichenau (d. 824). It was commissioned by Gozbert, abbot of St. Gall, to whom a metrical prologue is dedicated. BHL 3246.
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ff. 94v–95v
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[ed.] Krusch, Bruno (ed.), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (II), MGH Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 4, Hanover, 1902.
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256–280
[ed.] Dümmler, Ernst [ed.], Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, vol. 2, MGH Antiquitates, Berlin: Weidmann, 1884.
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476 Metrical dedication only.
