Editing Aldhelm (section)

===Prose===
*'''''De Laude Virginitatis''''' (the prose ''De Virginitate''), a Latin treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at [[Barking Abbey|Barking]], is Aldhelm's best-known work. After a long preface extolling the merits of virginity, he commemorates a great number of male and female saints. Aldhelm later wrote a shorter, poetic version (see below).
*'''''[[Epistola ad Acircium]]''''', a Latin treatise dedicated to one Acircius, understood to be King [[Aldfrith of Northumbria]] (r. 685-704/5). The chief source of his ''Epistola ad Acircium'' (ed. A. Mai, ''Class. Auct.'' vol. V) is [[Priscian]]. The acrostic introduction gives the sentence, 'Aldhelmus cecinit millenis versibus odas,' whether read from the initial or final letters of the lines.<ref name="EB1911"/> After an address to King Aldfrith, the letter consists of three treatises:
**''De septenario'', treatise on the number seven in [[arithmology]]
**''De metris'', treatise on metre, including the ''Enigmata'' (see below).
**''De pedum regulis'', didactive treatise on [[metrical feet]], such as iambs and spondees.
*[[Epistola ad Geruntium]], a letter written in Latin to [[Geraint of Dumnonia|Geraint]], [[List of kings of Dumnonia|King of Dumnonia]] concerning articles of the [[Council of Hertford]]. It was supposed to have been destroyed by the Britons ([[William of Malmesbury]], ''[[Gesta pontificum Anglorum]]'' p.&nbsp;361), but was discovered with others of Aldhelm's in the [[Codex Vindobonensis 751|correspondence]] of [[Saint Boniface|St Boniface]], [[archbishop of Mainz]].<ref name="EB1911" />
*Other '''Letters'''. Correspondents include Bishop [[Leuthere]], [[Adrian of Canterbury|Hadrian]], [[Eahfrid]], Cellanus, Sergius and Aldhelm's pupils Wihtfrith and Æthelwald who was responsible for part of the ''Carmen Rhythmicum''.<ref>{{PASE|10418|Æthelwald 17|accessdate=2009-01-18|cw=1}}</ref>
**A long letter to [[Eahfrid]], a scholar just returned from Ireland (first printed in Usher, ''Veterum Epistt. Hiber. Sylloge,'' 1632), is of interest as casting light on the relations between English and Irish scholars.<ref name="EB1911" />