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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 de verbo (BNF MS 7491)

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Anonymous grammatical treatise on the verb, probably composed in the 8th century and preserved in a single MS.

Liber ex lege Moysi

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Lorica of Laidcenn

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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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Latin metrical hymn or lorica (breast-plate) attributed to Laidcenn mac Baíth Bannaig.

Munich computus

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Anonymous [Munich computist]Anonymous ... Munich computist

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Navigatio sancti Brendani

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Latin narrative text about St Brendan (Lat. Brendanus > O.Ir. Bréndan), abbot of Clonfert, and his marvellous voyages across the ocean in search of the Land of Promise. The text enjoyed immense popularity on the Continent, where it was frequently copied and inspired the creation of new texts. BHL 1436-1438.

Oratio Gildae

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beg. Dei patris / festinare maximum

Gildas

Gildas

(fl. 5th–6th century)

Author of De excidio et conquestu Britanniae

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Latin poem attributed to Gildas, which takes the form of a prayer for a journey on land and at sea. Metrically, it is closely related to the Lorica of Laidcenn and on grounds of similarities was provisionally dated by Bernard Bischoff to the late 7th century.

Oratio sancti Brendani

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Brénainn of Clonfert

Brénainn of Clonfert

(d. 577)

Brénainn (Brenden; Brendan) mac Findloga, early Connacht saint, patron of Clonfert, and legendary voyager

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Medieval Latin litany or lorica, with a preface which attributes its composition to Brendan, abbot of Clonfert. It is preserved in manuscripts from the 11th century onward. Its date of composition is unknown.

Paenitentiale Cummeani

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Cummíne Fota

Cummíne Fota

(fl. 7th century)

early Irish saint, patron of Clonfert (Clúain Fertae)

Cummíne Fota

Cummíne Fota

(fl. 7th century)

early Irish saint, patron of Clonfert (Clúain Fertae)

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Seventh-century Irish penitential, written by Cumméne/Cumméne (Lat. Cummeanus) the Long, abbot of Clonfert, who died in 662 according to the Annals of Ulster. The text has a prologue, 202 canons and an epilogue.

Pauca de barbarismo collecta de multis

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Clemens Scottus

Clemens Scottus

(fl.c. 814–826)

(Scottus/Scotus), Irish peregrinus, grammarian and teacher active at the court of Louis the Pious.

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An early medieval Latin compilation of material on barbarisms, solecisms, metaplasms, figures of speech and other topics discussed in Book 3 of Donatus’ Ars maior. Headings: De barbarismo, De soloecismo, De ceteris uitiis, De metaplasmo, De scematibus, De tropis. The verse dedication which follows the text in the Bamberg manuscript is usually interpreted as an attribution to Clemens Scottus.

Pauca tibi Caesar de multis magne Hlothari

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beg. Pauca tibi, Caesar, de multis, magne Hlothari

Clemens Scottus

Clemens Scottus

(fl.c. 814–826)

(Scottus/Scotus), Irish peregrinus, grammarian and teacher active at the court of Louis the Pious.

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Latin poem of dedication by Clemens (Scottus) for Lothair, beg. Pauca tibi, Caesar, de multis, magne Hlothari, / iure tuus Clemens saepe legenda dedi, / caetera quo valeas per te penetrare sophiae / calle velut veterum, scita profund virum. The dedication apparently refers to foregoing tract in the manuscript, Pauca de barbarismo collecta de multis.

Perge carina

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beg. Perge, carina

Gilla PátraicGilla Pátraic

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A Latin boat poem/song, beginning ‘Perge, carina’, etc. Gilla Pátraic wrote it for inclusion in a manuscript copy of his Liber de tribus habitaculis animae, which he sent to certain friends in Worcester (Gwynn).

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.

Phoebi diem

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9 st.

beg. Phoebi diem fert orbita / plenum decoris gratia

A Latin office hymn to St Brigit.

Prebiarum de multorium exemplaribus

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Precamur patrem

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42 st.

Latin hymn (42st) found in the Antiphonary of Bangor and quite possibly composed by Columbanus. It deals with Christ, Easter day and the salvation of mankind.

Proverbia Grecorum

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An early medieval Latin compilation of gnomic maxims attributed to the Greeks, perhaps dating to the 7th century. The earliest transmission of its material is closely associated with Insular, particularly Irish scholarship, as seen in works of Sedulius Scottus and the B-recension of the Collectio canonum Hibernensis.

Quae sunt quae

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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.

Quid Vermendensis memorem tot milia plebis

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beg. Quid Vermendensis memorem tot milia plebis

Short Latin hexametrical epigram written or commissioned by Cellán, abbot of Péronne, for Transmarus, bishop of the people of Vermandois (plebs Vermandensis) in Picardy.

Quodam forte die caelo dum turbidus imber

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beg. Quodam forte die caelo dum turbidus imber

Colmán nepos Cracavist

Colmán ‘nepos Cracavist’

(fl. 9th century?)

Latin Irish poet, possibly of the 9th century, to whom at least two poems are attributed. The peculiar name Colmanus nepos Cracavit has been reinterpreted as a corrupted rubric which originally read Colmanus ep(is)c(opu)s craxavit, ‘Colmán the bishop wrote this’.

Latin poem by Colmán nepos cracavist on a miracle of Brigit.

Reference bible

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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

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

Reichenau Seven Heavens homily

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A Latin version of the Seven Heavens apocryphon.

Synodus I S. Patricii

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Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick

(fl. 5th century)

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A collecion of canons which are said to have been promulgated by Patrick and his suffragan bishops Auxilius and Iserninus. The text has been variously dated to Patrick's time, the 6th and 7th century.

Synodus II S. Patricii

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A Hiberno-Latin tract of canon law, probably produced in Ireland though extant only in manuscripts of the continent.

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