Latin prayer attested in early Irish or Irish-influenced manuscripts (though probably not of Irish origin).
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A 6th-century or early 7th-century commentary on Donatus, Ars minor, ascribed to one Asperus/Asperius or Asporius, who may have been an Irishman. It represents a Christianised reworking of the material.
Early medieval lemmatised commentary on books I and III of Donatus’ Ars maior. The work is similar to the Ars Laureshamensis and the grammatical treatises of Murethach and Sedulius Scottus.
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Latin grammar (ars grammatica) once attributed to the Irish peregrinus and teacher Clemens Scottus but now regarded as an anonymous work.
Anonymous commentary on Donatus, Ars maior, written at Lorsch, perhaps by an Irish or insular grammarian and based on a lost source of Irish origin. It covers all three parts (1, 3 and 2).
An early medieval Latin florilegium whose contents can be described as an eclectic mix of theological and exegetical matter and include many apocryphal items. Many of the sources have been identified as Anglo-Saxon, Irish or continental. No manuscripts are known to survive but Johann Herwagen included a version in his collected works of Bede (Basel, 1563).
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An early medieval, perhaps 8th-century Latin commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, attributed to an exegete who in modern scholarship is usually identified by the name Frigulus.
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An early medieval Latin work of cosmography, geography and ethnography, datable to the first half of the eighth century, which purports to be an epitome of a work by a Scythian philosopher named Aethicus (Ister) and which spuriously attributes its redaction and running commentary to St Jerome. Aethicus is described as a pagan (gentilis) who lived before the birth of Christ and travelled the four corners of the earth, although the chronology of peoples and events is regularly disturbed.
A collection of excerpts from the Bible, focusing on a number of well-known sinners and their punishments. Some features, such as its use of the term vindicta crucis, might betray a Hiberno-Latin origin for the compilation.
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Anonymous commentary on Donatus’ Ars maior. It is thought to have been written by an insular perhaps Irish author and addressed to one Cuimnanus, whose name may be, like Cummianus, a Latinised version of the Irish personal name Cummíne.
Fragment of an apocryphal version of the Harrowing of Hell preserved in the Book of Cerne. Possibly the earliest extant piece of Christian drama in Britain, It consists of what look like stage directions by a narrator and prayers by the righteous souls in hell and by Adam and Eve. The text breaks off in the middle of Eve’s speech.
Latin poem. Cases have been made for Irish authorship, but more recent commentators have also pointed out the Breton provenance of the surviving manuscripts.
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An early metrical Latin hymn (35 qq) on the life of Christ, written in trochaic tetrameter and attributed to St Hilary (fl. 4th century). The text is attested in a 7th-century Irish manuscript, the Bangor antiphoner, and became one of the most popular hymns in medieval Ireland.
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Anonymous grammatical treatise on the verb, probably composed in the 8th century and preserved in a single MS.
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Early medieval, 7th or 8th-century grammatical text in the form of a collection of select glosses on Donatus’s Ars minor and to a lesser extent, the Ars maior. It may have been written by an Irishman at home or on the continent.
