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These are five letters connected with Godehard (960–1038), a Bavarian monastic reformer who was abbot of Niederaltaich and of Tegernsee and later bishop of Hildesheim. The first, written as abbot of Tegernsee to his brethren at Niederaltaich, reports that he and his companions have been received with honour and charity on a journey made at the duke’s command, and that the monks obey his regular instructions; it ends with a request to send him a book of Horace and the letters of Cicero. The second answers a bishop Theodul who had accused him in a vehement letter.
The other letters, according to their headings, urge an abbot of Mondsee to come quickly and address an abbess with spiritual affection, while the last is written by the monks of Tegernsee to Godehard as bishop of Hildesheim. Though few, the letters show the network of reform monasteries in Bavaria in the early eleventh century, and the request for Horace and Cicero is a well-known small witness to the study of classical authors in monastic schools.
About this edition. The Latin text comes from Corpus Corporum, the Latin text repository of the University of Zurich (edition: Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 141, Parisiis 1853), reused with attribution for non-commercial purposes (CC BY-NC-SA). Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.