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verse beg. Colum Cille co Dia domerail

  • Early Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
Early Irish devotional poem addressed to Colum Cille and usually attributed to Adomnán.
First words (verse)
  • Colum Cille co Dia domerail
Speaker/Addressee
Addressee: Colum Cille
Colum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).
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Author
Ascribed to: Adomnán
Adomnán
(fl. c.628–704)
Adomnán mac Rónáin was abbot of Iona (r. 679–704) and author of the Latin Life of St Columba and an account of the holy places of the Near East (De locis sanctis). He is credited with the proclamation of the Lex innocentium or Cáin Adomnáin at the Synod of Birr.
See more Baíthéne mac Brénainn
Baíthéne mac Brénainn
(d. 598)
Second abbot of Iona, in succession to Colum Cille.
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Ascribed to either Adomnán or Baoithín (Baíthéne mac Brénainn, known as Columba’s successor).
Manuscripts

In the manuscripts, this poem immediately follows the Amra Choluim Chille (ACC), to which the piece has been compared:

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1441 (E 4. 2) = Irish Liber hymnorum [s. xiex–xiiin]
f. 28va
rubric: ‘Adomnán dorigne i n-orthain-se’
beg. ‘Colum Cille co Dia do-m-erail hi tias ni mos-tías’
Copy with interlinear gloss, attributed to Adomnán; preceded by ACC.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502 2, ff. 19–89 = Lebar Glinne Dá Locha (?) [1125 x 1150]
f. 59vb.17ff
rubric: ‘Adomnan mac Ronain rocháchain inn orthain-seo’
beg. ‘Colum Cilli co Dia dommerail i tias ni mustias’
Attributed to Adomnán; preceded by ACC.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xivex/xvin]
Preceded by ACC.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C iii 2 (1236) [s. xvi]
Preceded by ACC.
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 50 [s. xvii]
pp. 105.13–107.20
rubric: ‘Catbarr annso no hymon no ortho ro chan Adomnan mac Ronain maic Tinne no comadh e Baoithin mac Brenoinn maic Fearghosa maic Conaill Ghulban do neth an cathbarr so sios dano’
beg. ‘Coloim Cille co Dia domerail i tias ni mostias’
Preceded by ACC.(1)n. 1 Nessa Ní Shéaghdha, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the National Library of Ireland (1961).
Language
  • Early Irish
Form
verse (primary)
prose (secondary)

Verse. The glosses are in prose.

Textual relationships
Related: Amra Choluim ChilleAmra Choluim Chille

Elegy on Saint Columba (Colum Cille).

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Subjects

Colum Cille
Colum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).
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Sources

Notes

1.
Nessa Ní Shéaghdha, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the National Library of Ireland (1961).

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Grosjean, Paul, “L’hymne d’Adamnán á Colum Cille”, Revue des Études Indo-européennes 1 (1938): 184–191.
Gallica: <link> Gallica: View in Mirador
Text and accompanying glosses edited from Rawlinson B 502, with French translation and notes.
[ed.] Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson [eds.], The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, vol. 1: Text and introduction, Henry Bradshaw Society, 13, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.  
comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction
Volume 2: Translation
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> – originally from Google Books: <link>
184 Text from TCD 1441 (E 4. 2)
[tr.] Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson, The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, vol. 2: Translation and notes, Henry Bradshaw Society, 14, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.  
comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction
Volume 2: Translation
Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books (missing: pp. 18-19, 86-87): <link>
81–82 (no. 34) Translation from the same

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Caoimhín, “Rawlinson B 502, Lebar Glinne Dá Locha and Saltair na rann”, Éigse 30 (1997): 109–132.
Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson, The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, vol. 2: Translation and notes, Henry Bradshaw Society, 14, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.  
comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction
Volume 2: Translation
Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books (missing: pp. 18-19, 86-87): <link>
235 (notes) direct link
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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