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Vita sancti Mevenni
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Latin life of St Mevenn, which is uniquely preserved in a 16th-century mortuary register of the community of Saint-Méen. BHL 5944.
Manuscript witnesses
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.] [tr.] Poulain, Christophe, Bernard Merdrignac [introd.], and Hervé Le Bihan [tr,], La vie de saint Méen: d’après le manuscrit BN lat 9889, obituaire de Saint-Méen / Buhez Mewen: hervez dornskrid BN lat 9889, obider Sant-Mewen, [Lesneven]: Hor Yezh, 1999.
Latin text, with translation into French and Breton.
Secondary sources (select)
Le Huërou, Armelle, “De quand date la Vita S. Meuenni (BHL 5944)? Quelques nouveaux éléments sur sa transmission et sa genèse”, in: Jean-Christophe Cassard, Pierre-Yves Lambert, and Bertrand Yeurc'h (eds), Mélanges offerts au professeur Bernard Merdrignac, 17, Landévennec, 2013. 53–74.
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.
259 [id. 945.]
Doble, G. H., The saints of Cornwall, vol. 5: Saints of mid-Cornwall, Oxford: Dean and Chapter of Truro, 1970.
Articles, with original dates between brackets: 1. Saint Congar (1940); 2. St Ewe (1937); 3. St Goron/Goran (1938); 4. St Mewan and St Austol (1939); 5. St Nectan (1930 and 1937); 6. St Samson (1935); 7. St Sulian of Luxulian (1936); 8. St Winnoc (1940); Appendix: note on Barry [of Fowey].
