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Library Place	London
Library Name	British Library
Shelfmark	MS Royal 13.A.X
Folio Range	2nd C.U. (fols 63–103)
Date	X 2/2 or XI in.
Origin(s)	England Winchester (?)
Provenance	Winchester?
Genre	Hagiography Poetry Homilies Hymns
Contents	Bili of Aleth, Vita Sancti Machuti, including verses inc. Vitales qui cupis doctorum capere fructus and a hymn to Saint Machutis (63r-98r) Homelia in natale Sancti Machutis (98r-103v) Excerpt from Eutropius, Breviarium Historiae Romanae (added in the 12th century).
Old Breton Materials	No
Irish / Hiberno-Latin materials	No
Connection with Brittany	Certainly not written in Brittany Some contents probably derive from a Breton exemplar / archetype
Notes	The fact that this Anglo-Saxon MS contains a 'cluster' of texts concerning Saint Machutis suggests that its exemplar (or one of its examplars) may have been a Breton MS, possibly from the area of Aleth (present-day Saint-Servant at Saint-Malo).
Number(s) in Bischoff's Katalog	n/a
Essential bibliography	ASM 391–2 (§482); British Library Digitised Manuscripts; Dumville 1992c: 110; L&S §825, 896; Poulin 2009: 147–9; Smith 1990: 332 (n. 101).
URLs for digital facsimile	http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_13_a_x_f063r
Last Updated	2021-05-11 15:17:36
Author	Jacopo Bisagni
DHBM Identifier	#80
Permalink	https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/80

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