Chronicle of the kings of Alba
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Short Latin chronicle of Scottish history, the earliest of its kind, which is preserved in a single manuscript (BNF lat. 4162, or the Poppleton MS). The core of the text, which takes its structure from a regnal list, covers the period between the reigns of Cináed mac Ailpín (d. 858) and Cináed mac Maíl Choluim (d. 995), who appears to have been still alive when his reign was added. The form in which this text has come down, however, is in a later redaction, possibly of the 12th century, surviving in a 14th-century manuscript.
Illustrium maioris Britanniae scriptorum summarium
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Bale (John)
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Bale (John)
(1495–1563)
English protestant churchman; bishop of Ossory (1552/3); antiquarian and collector of manuscripts; author of a number of polemical plays, such as Kynge Johan, and an autobiographical work called The Vocacyon of Johan Bale.
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The first published version of John Bale's chronological catalogue of British and other authors.
In memoriam abbatum nostrorum
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beg. Sancta sanctorum opera
Latin hymn (50 lines) in honour of the first fifteen abbots of Bennchor (Bangor, Co. Down), which is attested as the final liturgical piece in the late 7th-century Antiphonary of Bangor. Each line of the middle four stanzas begin with a letter that follows the order of the alphabet.
Index Britanniae scriptorum
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Bale (John)
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Bale (John)
(1495–1563)
English protestant churchman; bishop of Ossory (1552/3); antiquarian and collector of manuscripts; author of a number of polemical plays, such as Kynge Johan, and an autobiographical work called The Vocacyon of Johan Bale.
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John Bale's catalogue of British and other authors as it appears in his notebook. Unlike his two published catalogues, this version is alphabetically arranged.
Metrical calendar of Hampson
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Latin metrical calendar consisting of 365 verses, with one hexametrical verse for each day of the year, primarily in commemoration of saints or church feasts. A striking feature is the inclusion of ten Irish saints, fourteen church feasts of Irish origin, six northern French and Flemish saints and the obits of King Alfred and his wife Ealhswith (d. 902). While much is unknown about the origin and authorship of the poem, it is usually thought to have been produced in England in the early part of the 10th century, probably during the reign of King Edward the Elder.
Salzburg list of abbots of Iona
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list
An 8th-century list of abbots of Iona down to Slébéne, preserved in a confraternity book written under the auspices of Virgil of Salzburg.
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