This is an electronic edition of Edmer's twelfth century Vita Sancti Wilfridi. It includes a full photographic facsimile of a little known witness from the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in Victoria, Australia -- MS Crouch 10. It considers all known manuscript witnesses in its apparatus and includes a full study of the printed tradition in its introduction and commentary, including the recently rediscovered witness 'E', now held by Cambridge University Library (whose whereabouts was unknown when the 1998 edition was published by University of Exeter Press). The analysis of the printed tradition contains a watershed of previously undisclosed observations that will necessitate a rethinking of traditional views concerning the authority of the Acta Sanctorum, Patrologia Latina and other early editions. The editors also examine the relationship between this Vita and related works by Edmer, Fridegode and others.

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The Stemma Codicum