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Vita sancti Declani

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  • prose
  • Irish hagiography
Latin vita of Declán of Ardmore
Manuscripts

The Latin Life is found in manuscripts of the so-called ‘Dublin collection’ (per Richard Sharpe) of the Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae.

T (Plummer) =
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 175 2 [s. xv2]
ff. 66b–71d
M (Plummer) =
Dublin, Marsh's Library, MS Z 3.1.5 = Codex Kilkenniensis (or Ardmachanus) [s. xv]
f. 101ra (line 1)–106va (line 13)
Language
  • Latin
Date
Pádraig Ó Riain, A dictionary of Irish saints (2011): 258, suggests that the hagiographer was “probably at work towards the end of the twelfth or early thirteenth century”.
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Betha DecclainBetha DecclainVernacular Irish translation of the Latin Life of St Declán of Ardmore (Vita sancti Declani).

Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Subjects

Declán of ArdmoreDeclán of Ardmore
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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.] Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>
32–59 direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Riain, Pádraig, A dictionary of Irish saints, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.  
Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. This book is a guide to the (mainly documentary) sources of information on the saints named in these dedications, for those who have an interest in them, scholarly or otherwise. The need for a summary biographical dictionary of Irish saints, containing information on such matters as feastdays, localisations, chronology, and genealogies, although stressed over sixty years ago by the eminent Jesuit and Bollandist scholar, Paul Grosjean, has never before been satisfied. Professor Ó Riain has been working in the field of Irish hagiography for upwards of forty years, and the material for the over 1,000 entries in his Dictionary has come from a variety of sources, including Lives of the saints, martyrologies, genealogies of the saints, shorter tracts on the saints (some of them accessible only in manuscripts), annals, annates, collections of folklore, Ordnance Survey letters, and other documents. Running to almost 700 pages, the body of the Dictionary is preceded by a preface, list of sources and introduction, and is followed by comprehensive indices of parishes, other places (mainly townlands), alternate (mainly anglicised) names, subjects, and feastdays.
258–260
Sharpe, Richard, Medieval Irish saints’ lives: an introduction to Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.
Internet Archive: <link>
lx–lxii direct link
web page identifiers
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
April 2016, last updated: January 2024
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