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Ivonet Omnes was a Breton scribe of the 14th century.

His name is known because he recorded it in a Latin manuscript of Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum Historiale, dated between 1330 and 1350. In the margin of this manuscript which he was copying, he wrote a few verses in Middle Breton. These were discovered on January 20, 1913 by Joseph Loth, and subsequently published in the Revue Celtique. Omnes is viewed as the oldest known Breton author.

Nothing is known of Ivonet Omnes, who might have been a cleric with a lax view toward the prescriptions of the Church. Part of the poem was seemingly composed by him, but there are also five lines which are recognizable as the traces of a song (an Old French lai) which can be dated to about the 12th century, according to Léon Fleuriot.

Fleuriot thinks that Omnes' versification is close to the cynghanedd lusg of Wales, much prized by Welsh poets of the Middle Welsh period.