A devotional hymn written in a learned kind of Latin, interspersed with Greek and Hebrew words. It consists of 22 rhyming triplets with lines of seven or eight syllables. The first letter of each triplet follows the order of the alphabet. It has been suggested that the poem was composed by an Irish cleric active in the 10th century.
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Latin acrostic poem attributed to one Columbanus whose name and that of his addressee are spelled out in the first letter of each line. The addressee is a pupil named Hunaldus. In manuscripts, the poem is usually found together with two other quantitive poems attributed to Columbanus, Ad Sethum and less frequently, Columbanus Fidolio fratri suo. If it is Columbanus of Bobbio who is being referred to, his authorship is not usually accepted. It has been suggested instead that a namesake had composed the three poems and scholars have sought to identify him with known Irish expatriates such as Columbanus, abbot of Saint-Trond/Sint-Truiden, and Colmán nepos Cracavist.
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Early Hiberno-Latin hymn (3 qq) dedicated to St Brigit. The three stanzas start with the final letters of the alphabet (X-Y-Z), possibly suggesting that they originally stood at the end of an abecedarius, a longer hymn arranged from A to Z. It is prefaced with an Irish prose introduction, which attributes the poem to Ultán of Ardbraccan. MS T is accompanied with a number of Latin and Irish glosses, one of which praises Brigit with the title ‘the Mary of the Gaels’ (Maire na n.Goidel).
