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A dhuine nach creit íar cóir
verse
86 st.
beg. A dhuine nach creit íar cóir
Úa Cúanáin (Echtgus)
Úa Cúanáin (Echtgus)
(d. 1161?)
Author of a Middle Irish metrical treatise on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. According to a rubric in the Brussels copy of the poem, he was of the community of Roscrea. It has been suggested, e.g. by Aidan Breen, that he is the same person as Ísác Úa Cúanáin, first known bishop of Roscrea, whose obit is recorded in AFM under the year 1161.

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Úa Cúanáin (Echtgus)
Úa Cúanáin (Echtgus)
(d. 1161?)
Author of a Middle Irish metrical treatise on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. According to a rubric in the Brussels copy of the poem, he was of the community of Roscrea. It has been suggested, e.g. by Aidan Breen, that he is the same person as Ísác Úa Cúanáin, first known bishop of Roscrea, whose obit is recorded in AFM under the year 1161.

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Late Middle Irish metrical treatise (86 qq) on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, attributed to Echtgus Ua Cúanáin of Roscrea.
Late Middle Irishreal presence of Christ in the Eucharisteucharists
A fhir há focus mennatan i mbá
verse
5 st.
beg. A fhir há / focus mennatan i mbá
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick
(fl. 5th century)
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Irish religious poem (between 3 and 5 qq). In at least two witnesses, it is attributed to Saint Patrick in the context of an anecdote about his loss of a tooth.
Irish language
Altus Prosator
form undefined
Colum Cille
Colum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).

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Latin hymn
Hiberno-Latin
Canon in Ebreica
prose
Exegetical text datable to the 8th century and thought to be of Hiberno-Latin provenance.
Latin language
Catechesis Celtica
prose
A collection of around 50 religious items in Latin, notably homilies, Sunday Gospel readings, exegetical tracts and commentaries. The text is attested in a single manuscript (Vatican, MS Vat. Reg. lat. 49) thought to have been produced in Brittany in the late 10th century.
Latin languageCollectanea
Chronica sancti Hieronymi
prose
Pseudo-Jerome [author of Chronica sancti Hieronymi]Pseudo-Jerome ... author of Chronica sancti Hieronymi
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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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An eighth-century Latin Genesis commentary commonly ascribed to Jerome, which offers a guide to the history of creation and according to Charles Munier, served as a catechism.

Latin language
Collectaneum in apostolum (Sedulius Scottus)
prose
Sedulius Scottus
Sedulius Scottus
(fl. 9th century)
Irish scriptural scholar, teacher, grammarian and poet who made a career in Francia and became a leading intellectual figure at the court of Charles the Bald.

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Collectaneum in Mattheum (Sedulius Scottus)
prose
Sedulius Scottus
Sedulius Scottus
(fl. 9th century)
Irish scriptural scholar, teacher, grammarian and poet who made a career in Francia and became a leading intellectual figure at the court of Charles the Bald.

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Collectaneum miscellaneum (Sedulius Scottus)
prose
Sedulius Scottus
Sedulius Scottus
(fl. 9th century)
Irish scriptural scholar, teacher, grammarian and poet who made a career in Francia and became a leading intellectual figure at the court of Charles the Bald.

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Collectiones in Epistolas et Evangelia (Smaragdus)
prose
Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel
Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel
(fl. 805–825/26)
Benedictine abbot of the monastery of Saint-Mihiel; scholar. Earlier scholarship suggested that he was of Irish or insular origin, or had spent time in an insular monastery, but more recent views favour a southern, perhaps Visigothic, background.

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A Carolingian compendium of biblical exegesis, written about 820 × 830 by the Benedictine monk Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel. In addition to citing from established authorities such as Isidore, Augustine and Gregory the Great, the compilation also cites Pelagius and lesser known authors such as Frigulus, who has been claimed to have been an Irish scholar of the early 8th century.

Latin language
Commentarius in Matheum (Frigulus)
prose
FrigulusFrigulus
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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. 

Latin language
David filius Iesse cum esset in regno suo
prose
Psalter preface on the composition of the Psalms and the role of four musicians, Asaph, Eman, Ethan and Idithun (Jeduthun), who are said to have been appointed by King David.
Latin language
De divina praedestinatione (John Scottus Eriugena)
prose
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.

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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.

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Latin language
De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae
prose
Augustinus Hibernicus
Augustinus Hibernicus
(fl. mid–7th c.)
theologian and author of the Hiberno-Latin treatise De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae, sometimes attributed to a certain Augustine, hence the use of the phrase Augustinus Hibernicus (the Irish Augustine) or Pseudo-Augustine.

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Latin theological treatise on the nature of miraculous phenomena in Scripture. While sometimes attributed in the manuscripts to Augustine, the text is thought to have been written in the 7th century by an anonymous Irishman who is now often referred to as Augustinus Hibernicus or the Irish Augustine.
Latin language
De pauperie Salvatoris (Richard FitzRalph)
prose
FitzRalph (Richard)
FitzRalph (Richard)
(c.1300–1360)
Archbishop of Armagh (1347-1360), theologian and author.

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Latin theological treatise in eight books, first written between 1351 and 1356 by Richard FitzRalph, archbishop of Armagh (d. 1360), as part of a wider campaign against the practices and privileges of mendicant orders (Augustinians, Dominicans, Carmelites and Franciscans). The eighth book was added towards the end of his life.

Latin languagemendicant orders
De praedestinatione contra Iohannem Scottum (Prudentius of Troyes)
prose
Prudentius [bishop of Troyes]
Prudentius ... bishop of Troyes
(d. 861)
Bishop of Troyes, theologian and historian. He was born in Spain and became active at the Frankish court in the time of Louis the Pious. In response to Hincmar and Eriugena, he wrote treatises on the doctrine of predestination.

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Latin language
De titulis psalmorum (Pseudo-Bede)
prose
Bede
Bede
(d. 735)
English monk at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow; author of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and works on various religious and theological subjects.

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A series of exegetical argumenta and explanationes for all 150 psalms, with prefatory and other additional material. Each argumentum typically consists of a historical and mystical explanation, and less frequently, also a moral one. In ninth-century manuscripts, the work is attributed to Bede, but this claim remains unproven.

Latin language
De vindictis magnis magnorum peccatorum
prose

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.

Latin language
Deus a quo facta fuit
verse
beg. Deus a quo facta fuit
Hiberno-Latin synchronistic poem on the six ages of the world, covering both biblical and classical history. Each line consists of 15 syllables. A detail for which this poem attracted attention is the obit of Domnall rex Scottorum, presumably Domnall mac Áeda (although Domnall Brecc has been suggested as another candidate), in the year 642.
Latin languageDomnall mac Áeda meic Ainmirech
Eclogae tractatorum in psalterium
prose
A commentary on the Psalms believed to be a text of Irish provenance.
Latin language
Egloga de moralibus in Iob (Laidcenn)
prose
Laidcenn mac Baíth Bannaig
Laidcend mac Baíth Bandaig
(d. 661)
Irish scholar, abbot of Clonfertmulloe (Kyle, Co. Laois); author of Ecloga de moralibus in Iob and possibly, Lorica Gildae.

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Laidcenn mac Baíth Bannaig
Laidcend mac Baíth Bandaig
(d. 661)
Irish scholar, abbot of Clonfertmulloe (Kyle, Co. Laois); author of Ecloga de moralibus in Iob and possibly, Lorica Gildae.

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An epitome of Gregory the Great's lengthy commentary on the Book of Job, Moralia in Iob. This abbreviated version is attributed to the 7th-century Irish theologian Laidcenn mac Baíth Bannaig, abbot of Clúain Fertae Mo Lua (Clonfertmulloe), and may have been brought to mainland Europe by Irish peregrini. The work is now extant in a dozen continental manuscripts.
Latin language
Elucidarium (Honorius Augustodunensis)
prose
Honorius Augustodunensis
Honorius Augustodunensis
(fl. 1098–1140)
Honorius Augustodunensis is a medieval theologian and author, active between ca. 1190 and ca. 1140. He is also referred to as Honorius Inclusus or Honorius of Autun. He has written several works, including the Speculum ecclesiae, the Elucidarium, and the Imago mundi. Two of his works (the Elucidarium and the Imago mundi) have been translated into Middle Welsh.

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A Latin encyclopedic and didactic work written by Benedictine monk Honorius Augustodunensis and presented as a dialogue between teacher and pupil about a variety of theological subjects. The work enjoyed immense popularity over a long period of time and was translated into many languages, including Middle Welsh (Ystoria Lucidar).

Latin language
Gloss in the Mac Durnan Gospels
prose
A single Early Irish scholium to Matthew 27:26-31 (beg. Iesum autem flagellatum) in the Mac Durnan Gospels (London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1370). It is transcribed in TP as ‘mór assársa forcoimdid nime ⁊ talman’.
Early Irish
Glossa in Psalmos
form undefined
Latin language
Glossae divinae historiae
form undefined
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.

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Latin language