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Confessio (Patricii)‘(Patrick's) confession’

Saint Patrick

• Latin
• Hiberno-Latin texts

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Saint PatrickSaint Patrick
(fl. 5th century)
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Patricius (St Patrick)

Manuscripts

Listed and described in Anthony Harvey • Jane Conroy • Franz Fischer, Saint Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack Project (2009-present):

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 52 = Book of Armagh [c. 807]

  ff. 22r–24v
• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 17626 [s. x]

  ff. 72r–82r
• London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero E i vol. 1, ff. 3-208 [s. xi² / s. xii^2/4]

  ff. 169vb–173vb context: Cotton Corpus legendary
• Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 1391 [s. xi]

  ff. 157v–159v
• Salisbury, Cathedral Library, MS 221 [s. xi/xii]

  ff. 158r–164r
• Salisbury, Cathedral Library, MS 223 [s. xii]

  ff. 7r–11v
• Arras, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 1391 [s. xii]

  ff. 50va–52vb
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 480 [s. xvii]

  ff. 79r–80v

  Fragment.

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Sources

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.

[dipl. ed.] Bleier, Roman [proj. dir.], St Patrick's epistles: transcriptions of the seven medieval manuscript witnesses, Online: Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. URL: <https://gams.uni-graz.at/context:epistles>.

[ed.] [tr.] Howlett, David R. [ed. and tr.], Liber epistolarum Sancti Patricii Episcopi: The book of letters of Saint Patrick the Bishop, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1994.

52–93.

[ed.] [tr.] Hanson, R. P. C. [ed. and tr.], Saint Patrick: Confession et lettre à Coroticus: introduction, texte critique, traduction et notes, Sources Chrétiennes 249, Paris: Cerf, 1978.

70–132.

[ed.] Bieler, Ludwig [ed.], Libri epistolarum Sancti Patricii episcopi, 2 vols, Dublin, 1951–1952.  

Reprint from Classica and Mediaevalia 11 (1950): 1–150; and Classica and Mediaevalia 12 (1951): 79–215. The work consists of two volumes: 1. Introduction and text; 2. Commentary. Addenda were published in Analecta Hibernica 23 (1966): 313-315. A reprint was published by the Royal Irish Academy in 1993, with the two parts combined in one volume (series: Clavis Patricii 2, Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources. Ancillary Publications 4).

Vol. 1: 5–150; vol. 2: 79–214.

[tr.] Hanson, R. P. C. [tr.], “English translation of the Confession and the Letter to Coroticus of Saint Patrick”, Nottingham Medieval Studies 15 (1971): 3–26.

Secondary sources (select)

Harvey, Anthony [project leader], Jane Conroy [principal investigator], and Franz Fischer [principal researcher], Saint Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack Project, Online: Royal Irish Academy. URL: <http://www.confessio.ie>.

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March 2011, last updated: August 2020