id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3342 Breton literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 1992 235 65 Old and Middle Breton literature[edit] Many Old Breton extant words are glosses in Latin manuscripts from the 9th and 10th centuries, now scattered in libraries and collections throughout Europe. The manuscript itself is a fragment of medicinal recipes composed of plants suggesting that Breton may well have been used by people of learning at the turn of the 11th century.[3] Another early known piece of Breton literature is found in the margins of a 14th-century Latin manuscript, scribbled by a scribe weary of his toil and mind on more immediate concerns, he left for posterity a four line love poem, the first two lines beginning: Before the literary revival movement promoted by Gwalarn in the early 20th century, most literature in Breton consisted of religious writings.[4] Categories: Breton-language literature Middle Breton literature ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3342.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3342.txt