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Vita sancti Endei abbatis de Arann ‘The Life of Énda abbot of Aran’

• Latin
• Irish hagiography

Medieval Latin Life of St Énda of Aran

Manuscripts

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 485 = Codex Insulensis (MS R₁ or R) [s. xiv (?)]

ff. 103r–108

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 505 1, ff. 1-210 = Codex Insulensis (MS R2 or I) [s. xiv^ex]

f. 90 ff

Killiney, Franciscan Library, MS F 1 [1627]

p. 291 ff

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Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Subjects

Énda of Aran

Énda of Aran

(supp. fl. 6th century?)

Énda mac Conaill, patron saint of Inis Mór (Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands, Co. Galway)

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Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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See more Ciarán of Clonmacnoise

Ciarán (mac int Shaír) of Clonmacnoise

(c. 515–c. 549)

Irish saint, patron of Clúain Moccu Nóis (Clonmacnoise). Feast-day: 9 September.

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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>

60–75 [‘Vita sancti Endei abbatis de Arann’]

[ed.] Colgan, John, Acta sanctorum veteris et maioris Scotiæ seu Hiberniæ, sanctorum insulæ, Louvain: Everard De Witte, 1645.

Data.onb.ac.at: <link> Google Books: <link>, <link>

704–710 This text, imperfect at the beginning, was taken from the Franciscan MS.

[ed.] Acta sanctorum: quotquot toto orbe coluntur, vel a catholicis scriptoribus celebrantur, 68 vols, vol. 8: Martius III [19–31], Antwerp: Ioannes Meursius, 1668.

Google Books: <link>

267–274 Text taken from Colgan.

Secondary sources (select)

Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.

Internet Archive: <link>

lxii–lxiv

Kenney, James F., “Chapter V: The monastic churches: II. The churches of the sixth to ninth centuries; general treatises”, in: James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Revised ed., 11, New York: Octagon, 1966. 372–485.

374 [id. 164. ‘Life of St Énda’]

Zimmer, Heinrich, “Keltische Beiträge II: Brendans Meerfahrt”, Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum und deutsche Litteratur 33 (1889): 136–220.

Digizeitschriften.de: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

206 ff

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April 2014, last updated: January 2024