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REPLY1850

THE SCRIBE OTLOH

By S. W. S.

In the note respecting Otloh, on the first page of your eighth number, the name of the well-known Abbot Hild*ui*nus is twice erroneously printed Hild*er*inus, probably in consequence of my indistinct writing. I will take occasion to add, that Graff, in his *Diutiska*, does not give the whole of the interesting old German version of Otloh's prayer, but merely corrections of that given by Pez. It seems that Otloh, in correcting and enlarging Willibald's *Life of S. Boniface*, gave a large portion of the Saint's letters; and therefore the editors of the *Monumenta Germaniæ Historica* (vol. ii.) r…

Topics: Historical Manuscripts, Christian Theology, Medieval Scholarship