Little lections in Cambrian composition: Vita S. Gundeli and Vita S. Iltuti

This article presents texts of Vita Sancti Gundleii § 11 edited from London, British Library, ms Cotton Vespasian A.XIV and ms Cotton Titus D.XXII, and Vita Sancti Iltuti Prologue and § 7 edited from ms Cotton Vespasian A.XIV. These three passages, which discuss education and composition both verbal and architectural, offer detailed accounts of aesthetic theory as understood and practised among the Welsh during the twelfth century.