Vita Sancti Wilfrithi

Vita Sancti Wilfrithi
"The Life of St. Wilfrid"
A page from an 11th-century manuscript of the Vita Sancti Wilfrithi describing the foundation of Hexham Abbey
Author(s)	Stephen of Ripon
Language	Medieval Latin
Date	Composed between 709 and c. 720
Manuscript(s)	1. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D. vi. Provenance: probably transferred from Yorkshire before it was held in Canterbury and then acquired by the British Library. fos. 2-77: 9th century, with 11th-century additions; fos. 78-125: 11th century, with 12th-century additions on the final page. 2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Fell vol. III 34a-56b, originally vol. I. Written in the late 11th or early 12th century.[1]
Genre	Prose hagiography

The Vita Sancti Wilfrithi or Life of St Wilfrid (spelled "Wilfrid" in the modern era^[2]) is an early 8th-century hagiographic text recounting the life of the Northumbrian bishop, Wilfrid. Although a hagiography, it has few miracles, while its main concerns are with the politics of the Northumbrian church and the history of the monasteries of Ripon and Hexham. It is one of a collection of historical sources from the late 7th- and early 8th-centuries, along with the anonymous Vita Sancti Cuthberti, the works of Bede and Adomnán's Vita Sancti Columbae, that detail the Christianisation of Great Britain and make the period the best documented period in English history before the age of Alfred the Great.