Texts

Liber de ordine creaturarum

Pseudo-Isidore

Hiberno-Latin
Hiberno-Latin texts

Anonymous Hiberno-Latin treatise

Chapters: 1. De fide trinitatis; 2. De creatura spirituali; 3. De aquis quae super firmamento sunt; 4. De firmamento coeli; 5. De sole et luna; 6. De spatio superiore et paradiso coeli; 7. De spatio inferiori et hemisphaeriis diversis; 8. De diabolo et natura daemoniorum; 9. De natura aquarum et cursu Oceani; 10. De paradiso; 11. De situ orbis terrarum quem inhabitat genus humanum; 12. De natura hominum post peccatum; 13. De diversitate peccantium, et loco poenarum; 14. De igne purgatorio; 15. De futura vita.

Author

Pseudo-IsidorePseudo-Isidore

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Ascribed to: Isidore of Seville

Isidore of Seville

(c.560–636)

Archbishop of Sevilla (Visigothic Spain), theologian, scholar and highly influential author, who is known especially for works such as his Etymologiae, Synonyma, De natura rerum, De ortu et obitu patrum, De officiis ecclesiasticis and a Chronica maiora.

Manuscripts

See Marina Smyth, ‘The seventh-century Hiberno-Latin treatise Liber de ordine creaturarum. A translation’, Journal of Medieval Latin 21 (2011). Incl.

Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, MS F iii 15b

ff. 1–19

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 9561

ff. 1–14

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 6302 [s. viii²]

ff. 1–29

Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, MS lat. 3848B

ff. 64v–65v

Ch. 1 only.

Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, MS B. V 18

ff. 78–101

Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 178

ff. 90–108

Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, MS lat. 2183

ff. 49–63

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Gaddianus lat. 89. Sup. 31

ff. 1–15

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 63 D

ff. 127–156

Troyes, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 423

ff. 74–91

Language

Hiberno-Latin

Date

“second half of the seventh century” (Smyth)

Classification

Hiberno-Latin textsHiberno-Latin texts
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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.

[ed.] Díaz y Díaz, Manuel C., Liber de ordine creaturarum: un anónimo irlandés del siglo VII. Estudio y edición crítica, Monografías de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 10, Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1972.

[ed.] Migne, Jacques-Paul [gen. ed.] (ed.), Sancti Isidori Hispalensis episcopi, opera omnia, vol. 5, Patrologia Latina, 83, Paris, 1862.

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913D–954B direct link

[tr.] Smyth, Marina, “The seventh-century Hiberno-Latin treatise Liber de ordine creaturarum. A translation”, Journal of Medieval Latin 21 (2011): 137–222.

abstract:

This article consists of both an introduction to, and a translation of the Liber de ordine creaturarum, an anonymous treatise written in Ireland in the second half of the seventh century. After summarizing the theological and cosmological content of the treatise, the introduction examines the date, the early manuscripts, the linguistic features and other elements in the text pointing towards an Irish environment. The reception of the Liber de ordine creaturarum is also traced: its influence was particularly strong in Anglo-Saxon England, but early Irish and Anglo-Saxon missionary activity and the mistaken attribution to Isidore of Seville ensured that the treatise spread throughout most of medieval Europe.

(source: Brepols)