Wolfgar or Wolfger was the

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from 809/10 until his death in 831/2. He succeeded the obscure bishop Egilwart (803–09/10). Wolfgar was on good terms with the Emperor

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. During his episcopate, Würzburg increased its properties and over twenty surviving manuscripts were produced in its

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. This time was a transitional period in the history of the cathedral library, whose output is known collectively as the '' Libri sancti Kyliani'', in which

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and the local variant of

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first appear. Pastoral books, liturgies and the

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dominated the scriptorium's output, and a work of

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was copied at Würzburg for the first time under Wolfgar. An original charter recording a transaction between Wolfgar and a Count Eginonus and his wife Wentilgarth is preserved.

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