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CLAVIS LITTERARVM HIBERNENSIVM
Medieval Irish Books & Texts (c. 400 – c. 1600)
This three-volume ground-breaking and comprehensive survey of
Irish texts and manuscripts is the first study of its kind to describe
the entire historical and literary output of Irish writers, at home and
abroad, throughout the middle ages (4th to 17th centuries). It surveys
writers in Latin and the vernaculars, ranging through biblica, liturgica, computistica, hagiographica and grammatica, as well as all the
genres of Irish and the other vernacular writings of Ireland.
For both manucripts and texts, there are running cross-references
to the standard works of reference. The Index Manuscriptorum is the
most comprehensive of its type ever provided for this subject. Moreover, the chapters on manuscripts and texts written in Irish provide
the first full treatment of several areas, including annals, genealogies,
vernacular law, early poetry, bardic poetry and metrics.
The focus is both on individual manuscripts and textual transmission:
• In the case of manuscripts it succinctly lists all the salient information (origin, provenance and date, foliation, pagination and
dimensions), accompanied by a detailed chronologically arranged
bibliography for every codex.
• For individual texts it lists the manuscripts in which they occur,
or, when relevant, where such a list can be found, together with a
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Donnchadh Ó Corráin is emeritus professor of medieval history at
University College-National University of Ireland, Cork, and member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is founder-editor of Peritia, 19822014 (25 volumes). He established the CELT on-line corpus of Irish
texts (celt.ucc.ie). He has published widely on medieval Irish literature,
text history, vernacular law, church history, canon law, genealogy,
politics, kingship, social history, the Vikings, and other topics.
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EARLY CODICES IN IRELAND AND BRITAIN
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contacts, scholarship: a Festschrift for Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Studia Traditionis Theologiae, 14 (Turnhout, 2015), 597–624: 611.
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[400-401]
Book of Kells
Manuscript. Dublin, TCL, 58 olim A. 1. 6 al. Book of Kells al.
Codex Cenannensis, siglum Q; s. viii/ix (Lowe, CLA, 1st ed.); s. viii 2,
‘before the ninth-century invasions of the Norse’ (Lowe, apud Brown,
1972); s. viii med (Brown, 1972); s. viii ex ; c. AD 800 (Meehan apud Moss,
2014, 238–41); 340 folios; acephalous (about 10 folios lost) and imperfect (about 30 folios lost); 330×250 mm; Insular half-uncial; three
painters, four or five scribes. Origin Iona (?); ‘a great Insular centre …
subject to Northumbrian influence … in eastern Scotland. …. The possibilities include Northumbria itself, Eastern Scotland, and the Columban community at Iona. …’ (Brown, 1972); provenance Kells. The finest
Insular gospel book.
Full Facsimiles. E. H. Alton, P. Meyer & G. O. Simms (eds.), Evangeliorum quattuor codex Cenannensis, 3 vols (Bern, 1950–1). — Peter Fox
(ed.), The Book of Kells: MS 58, Trinity College Library Dublin, 2 vols
(Lucerne, 1990).
Editions of the Charters. John O’Donovan (ed. & trans.), ‘The Irish
charters in the Book of Kells’, in Miscellany of the Irish Archæological
Society (Dublin, 1846), 127–57 (edited from Book of Kells and from
Dublin, TCL, 580 olim E. 3. 8, ff. 59v–61v; s. xvii 1). — Gearóid Mac
Niocaill (ed.), Notitiæ as Leabhar Cheanannais, 1033–1161 (Dublin,
1961); edited from Book of Kells; Dublin, TCL, 580; London, BL,
Additional, 4791, ff. 119–22; s. xvii; and Dublin, RIA, A v 3 (934); s. xviii
(1776×1786, charter 8 only). — idem (ed. & trans.), ‘The Irish “charters”’, in Peter Fox (ed.), The Book of Kells: MS 58, Trinity College
Library Dublin (Lucerne, 1990), ii 153–65 (revised edition from all the
MSS and new translation, with annotations). — David N. Dumville,
‘Charters from “The Book of Kells” transcribed for James Ussher’, in
idem, Celtic essays, 2001–2007, 2 vols (Aberdeen, 2007), i 233–56; a diplomatic transcript of the six charters in Dublin, TCL, 580 olim E. 3. 8;
with introduction and commentary.
References. Gougaud, Répertoire, 1913, 16–20, 37. — Kenney §471. —
CLA 2.274. — CLLA i §143. — BCLL 520. — McGurk §87. — Alexander §52. — Dougan §6. — TCL MRL Cat i 106–8. — O’Sullivan,
528–31. — Dumville, ‘Manuscripts’, §13. — MIE 245–7. — CeltC iii
1047–51. — Moss, Art, 238–41.
IRISH SCHOLARS ABROAD, III
513
DÚNGAL OF ST-DENIS AND PAVIA (FL. C. 784×834)
401
Carmina
Poems by or to Dúngal: (1) ‘Baldo, Dei famule’, addressee uncertain (MS iv);
(2) acrostic poem with a prose prologue, to Hildoard, bishop of Cambrai
(sed. 790–816) (MS i); (3) ‘Martyribus venerandis’, in honour of Hilduin
(†840), abbot of Saint-Denis (sed. 815–40) (MS ii); (4) ‘Te precor’, an epitaph in 17 elegiac distichs, attribution uncertain (MS iii); (5) ‘Versus ad Dungalum Scotum’ (MS v); (6) ‘Epitaphium’, four hexameters and four elegiac
distichs, attributed to Dúngal (MSS vi–vii); (7) Carmina dubia, some 20
poems and epitaphs (MS iii), the authorship of which is uncertain (see 416).
Inc. (1) Baldo, Dei famule, clare magister; (2) Hanc tibi victricem, dux
inclite; (3) Martyribus venerandis busta ut trina coruscant; (4) Te precor, omnipotens conditor orbis; (5) O venerande pie frater mihi semper
amande D〈un〉gale, praeclaro nomine et ingenio; (6) Qui virtute crucis
mundum de morte redimit
Manuscripts. (i) St Petersburg, Public Lib., Q. V. II.5, f. 44; s. ix (carmen
2). — (ii) Paris, BnF, lat. 7520; s. ix (carmen 3). — (iii) Rome, BAV, Reg.
lat. 2078, ff. 117–23; s. ix–x; origin Reims (carmen 4; and carmina
dubia). — (iv) Munich, Staatsbib., clm 14743, f. 160; s. ix (carmen 1). —
(v) Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbib., Augiensis 195, f. 1v (not originally
part of the MS, and badly rubbed); caroline minuscule; s. ix (carmen 5).
— (vi) Brussels, Bib. royale, 14586, f. 102; s. x (carmen 6). — (vii) Paris,
BnF, nouv. acq. lat. 1618, f. 91v; s. x–xi (carmen 6).
Editions. PL 98, 1443–4; PL 105, 529–32. — MGH PLAC, i 406–7
(§17), 411–3 (§§23–4); ii 664–5; iv 1124–7. — L. Delisle, Catalogue des
manuscrits des fonds Libri et Barrois (Paris, 1888), 7. — Karl Strecker,
‘Ein neuer Dungal?’, Z Romanische Philol 41 (1921), 566–73 (ed. of carmen 5, MS v; see Rudolf Thurneysen (notice of Strecker’s edition),
Z Celt Philol 14 (1923), 426, with valuable further identifications of Irish
place names); re-ed in PLAC iv 1124–7). — H. Silvestre (ed.), ‘La véritable épitaphe de Dungal, reclus de Saint-Denis et auteur des “Responsa
contra Claudium”?’, Revue Bénédictine, 61 (1935), 256–9: 257. — David
Howlett, The Celtic Latin tradition of biblical style (Dublin, 1995), 223–5
(edition and translation of carmen 2).
References. Kenney §§348–50, 370. — Manitius, i 370–4. — BCLL
659, 734. — Sharpe §245. — CSMA-AG i 314–8, 323. — DIB iii
539–40.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface – Abbreviations – Bibliography, Catalogues & Guides
1. Epigraphy, Writing, Form and Image
2. Early Codices in Ireland and Britain
19. Annals
Later, mainly Anglo-Irish, Annals & Chronicles
3. Biblica
Apocrypha
Eschatology
Apocryphal & Eschatological Varia
Homiletics & Catechetics
20. Genealogies
4. Patristica: Irish Texts and Manuscripts
24. The Poet-Scholars I: Early-Medieval Grammatical Theory,
Poetics, Poetry & Piety
Poetics & Lyric Poetry
Select Religious Verse & Litanies
5. Hagiography, Hagiology, Hymnology & Liturgy
Vernacular Hagiography
Martyrologies
Hymnology
Liturgica
6. Irish Books and Authors Abroad I:
Columbanus, Luxeuil, and Bobbio
7. Irish Books and Authors Abroad II:
Echternach, Fulda, St Gall, Würzburg
8. Irish Scholars Abroad III: Works & Manuscripts
Cellán, Joseph Scottus, Catulfus
Dúngal
Dícuill the Geographer (c. 760–post 825)
Anonymi & Varii
Sedulius Scottus (fl. 840–860)
Johannes Scottus Eriugena
Other Irish Scholar-Peregrini & their Books
Carmina of Colmán, Donatus, Dub Dúin, Electus
Anonymi Hibernici
Miscellaneous Texts, tenth to twelfth centuries
9. Irish Scholars and Greek in the West
10. Latin Grammatical Tracts
11. Computus
12. Hiberno-Latin Writers and Texts
Early Medieval Anonymous Latin Texts
13. Penitentials
14. Canon Law
15. Synodal Legislation & Monastic Rules
Synods, Canons, Sabbatarianism
Monastic Rules
16. Irish Latin Manuscripts, Principally Tenth
to Twelfth Centuries
Psalters
Gospels & Missals
17. Tenth to Twelfth-Century Latin Texts and Authors
Scholarly Works & Class Books
18. The Vernacular Laws
21. Early Irish Manuscripts: Glosses and Texts
22. Major Vernacular Codices, Literary and Historical
23. Earliest Vernacular Literary Texts
25. The Poet-Scholars II: Learning, Wisdom & Prophecy
Glossaries & Reference
Wisdom Texts
Prophecy and Eschatology
26. The Poet-Scholars III: Irish Classical Poetry
Grammatical & Syntactical Texts
Irish Classical Poetry
Duanaire
27. Medieval Vernacular Narrative Prose
Clerical Anecdota
28. Historicist & Historical Vernacular Texts –
Verse, Prose, and Prosimetrum
1. Uí Néill & Airgialla
2. Origin Legends
3. Topographical Lore
4. Rights and Tributes
5. Historical and Historicist Poets
6. Poems on Leinster
7. Munster Texts on Éoganacht and Dál Cais
8. Connachta
9. Kings and Vikings
10. Irish Historia Britonum
11. Church Histories
29. Classica
30. Foreign Medieval Literature – Translations and Adaptations
Select Religious Texts
31. Medicine and Science
32. Books mainly of the Anglo-Irish
Latin Martyrologies, Service Books, & Texts
Religious Texts
Canon Law & Heresy
Historical Works
Old-French Texts
English Texts
Index (Manuscripts; Texts, Authors, & Scribes; Initia) –
­ Concordances
CLAVIS LITTERARVM HIBERNENSIVM
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