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• Landévennec

Landévennec

• Charters / Cartularies
• Hagiography
• Homilies
• Hymns

• Account of a miracle of Saint Winwaloe (added in the 12th century) (1v-2r)
• Crucifixion scene (2v)
• Gurdisten, Vita longior sancti Winwaloei (3r-126v)
• Hymns to Saint Winwaloe (126v-130r)
• Homily on Saint Winwaloe (130r-135r)
• Life of Saint Ethbin (135v-140r)
• List of abbots of Landévennec (140v)
• Landévennec charters (141r-164r)
• List of counts of Cornouaille (164v).

• Certainly written in Brittany

This is the famous 'Cartulary of Landévennec.' It is impossible to do justice to the complexity of this important codex in these brief notes: a few indications will have to suffice (for in-depth analyses of many aspects of this MS, in addition to a complete facsimile, see the studies published in Lebecq 2015). In spite of its name, this MS is in fact more than a cartulary: indeed, the first 135 folios contain an extensive hagiographical 'dossier' on Saint Winwaloe. The cartulary proper only begins at fol. 140v with a list of the abbots of Landévennec, and ends at fol. 164v with a list of magnates of Cornouaille (fols 135v–140r are occupied by a Life of Saint Ethbin, also known as Idunet).

The bulk of the MS was written by two scribes (hands A and B), in all likelihood during the abbacy of Elisuc, i.e. between 1047 and 1055 (for a slightly later dating, cf. Garault 2011: 38). As has been pointed out by Barret (in Lebecq 2015: 18), the writing of this MS—especially hand A—resembles the script used in the roughly contemporary Cartulary of Redon (Rennes, Bibl. de l'Archevêché, MS sine numero). Lemoine (2008: 197) has drawn attention to the occurrence of the 'insular' invocation In nomine Dei summi in several charters (24, 40, 42, 43), which may have implications for the dating of these documents.

Bauer 2008: 133; Bradshaw 1889: 412, 474, 487; Brett 1985: 257, 265; Brett 2020; CCfr; CGM 22: 433; CMD VII, 253; Davies 1985; Davies 2009 (esp. article III); de La Borderie 1888; Deuffic 1985a: 274–6; Deuffic 2008: 94; Garault 2011: passim (esp. p. 38); Guillotel 1982: 284; ILLB Q229 (n. 139); Initiale; L&S §824, 827, 925, 999; Lebecq 2015 (with full facsimile); Lebecq 2015b: 159–61; Lebecq 2020: 87f.; Lemoine 2008: 197; PMSB 315 (§98); Poulin 1996: 173, 177–8, 192; Poulin 2009: 388, 402, 407–9, 452–3; Schrijver 2011: 8; Simon 1985a: 25–7; Simon 1986: 127; Smith 1990: 321–2; Tanguy 1985.