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Vita sancti Galli vetustissima
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Earliest, Latin life of St Gall, founder of St. Gall in modern-day Switzerland, which survives only in fragmentary form. BHL 3245.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 2106
Fragment corresponding to Book 1, ch. 26-29, and Book 2, ch. 6-8, of Walahfrid’s version.
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[ed.] [tr.] Müller, Clemens [ed.], Cornel Dora [tr.], and Franziska Schnoor [tr.], “[Vita sancti Galli vetustissima, critical edition]”, in: St Gallen, Stiftsbibiothek, Vita sancti Galli vetustissima: die älteste Lebensbeschreibung des heiligen Gallus, St. Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof St. Gallen, 2012. 36–51.
[facs. ed.] St Gallen, Stiftsbibiothek, Vita sancti Galli vetustissima: die älteste Lebensbeschreibung des heiligen Gallus, St. Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof St. Gallen, 2012.
27–34
[ed.] Krusch, Bruno (ed.), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (II), MGH Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 4, Hanover, 1902.
Digital MGH: <link>
251–256
