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Irish Liber de numeris (Pseudo-Isidore)

prose

Pseudo-IsidorePseudo-Isidore

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A Latin, likely Hiberno-Latin, collection of miscellaneous material organised according to their relevance to certain numerical subjects (e.g. the five senses, ten windows of the soul, etc.)

Liber confraternitatum vetustior Sancti Petri Salisburgensis

prose

Confraternity book of St. Peter’s abbey in Salzburg, written under the auspices of Virgil, bishop of Salzburg (d. 784), towards the end of his life. To Irish historians, it may be known chiefly for the list it contains of abbots of Iona down to Slébéne.

Liber de ordine creaturarum

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Pseudo-IsidorePseudo-Isidore

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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.

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Anonymous Hiberno-Latin treatise

Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum (Jerome)

prose

list

Jerome

Jerome

(c.340s–420 (Prosper))

Church father, born in Dalmatia, and biblical scholar who translated the greater part of the Bible into Latin and whose labours led to the Vulgate version.

Jerome

Jerome

(c.340s–420 (Prosper))

Church father, born in Dalmatia, and biblical scholar who translated the greater part of the Bible into Latin and whose labours led to the Vulgate version.

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Glossary of biblical names compiled by Jerome in the second half of the 4th century. For each book that it treats, the text lists Hebrew as well as Aramaic and Greek proper names, especially personal names, in roughly alphabetical order and offers etymologies and interpretations. The work circulated widely in the Middle Ages and was also reworked, expanded, excerpted, rearranged and incorporated, for instance in gospels and other biblical manuscripts.

Old Irish treatise on the Psalter

prose

Periphyseon (John Scottus Eriugena)

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John Scottus Eriugena

John Scottus Eriugena

(fl 9th century)

Irish scholar and theologian who had been active as a teacher at the palace school of Charles the Bald.

A philosophical-theological work, running to five books, written by the continental Irish scholar known as John Scottus Eriugena (fl. 9th century). Presented in the form of a dialogue between teacher and student, it develops a Neoplatonic cosmology that classifies nature (natura) according to two main questions: whether or not it is created and whether or not it creates. On this basis, four types of natura are distinguished: (1) the Creator, who creates but is not created, (2) the causae primordiales or causes of Creation (which create and are created), (3) the temporal effects of Creation (which do not create), and (4) non-being, for which neither holds true. In presenting many of his cases, Eriugena draws heavily on Greek Christian sources. Already somewhat influential in Eriugena’s own life-time, the work gained special prominence among scholars and philosophers of the 12th century and onwards.

Reference bible

prose

An extensive Latin compendium of exegetical commentary on every book of the Bible. It has been dated to the eighth century and is commonly thought to be Irish in origin or Irish-influenced at the least.

Reichenau commentary on the Catholic Epistles

prose

Latin commentary on the Catholic Epistles by an anonymous but probably Irish author.

Saltair na rann

verse

1,947 st.

Middle Irish verse composition giving accounts of biblical history, from the time of Creation to the resurrection of Christ. It is divided into 150 cantos of varying lengths, ranging from just 3 quatrains to as many as 138.

Saltair na rann

Saltair na rann/1 Mo rí-se rí nime náir

verse

84 st.

beg. Mo rí-se rí nime náir

The opening poem or canto (84qq) in the Middle Irish series of poems known as Saltair na rann. It deals with the universe and its creation, drawing on biblical narrative as well as other sources.

Scél saltrach na rann

prose

A prose redaction of the Middle Irish biblical poem Saltair na rann. Myles Dillon distinguishes between two main recensions of the tract, which are most fully represented by the (incomplete) versions in the Leabhar Breac and the Book of Uí Maine respectively. The first section in the Leabhar Breac, covering the narratives from Creation to Adam and Eve, has no extant counterpart in the the Book of Uí Maine. (There is also a prose summary corresponding to the first section. It is found as a commentary to the note on place (locc) in the Pseudo-historical prologue to the Senchas Már).

Sermo synodalis

prose

A Latin religious tract which a bishop could use to address priests at a diocesan synod. It was written on the continent, possibly in the 10th century, and enjoyed wide dissemination across western Europe. In some versions, it is falsely attributed to Pope Leo IV (fl. 9th c.). A version of it is also extant in the 15th-century Irish manuscript known as the Leabhar Breac, where it is prefixed to a homily on the Lord’s Prayer.

Sex aetates mundi

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Y naw rhinwedd

prose

A Middle Welsh version of the ‘nine answers/virtues of Christ’, which is given by Elis Gruffydd in Cardiff MS 3.4.

Ystorya gwlat Ieuan Vendigeit

prose

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