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Trúag lem a Baithín dil bías

verse

28 st.

beg. Trúag lem, a Baithín dil bías

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).

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Irish poem (28 qq) attributed to Colum Cille.

Uch, a Dé

verse

6 st.

beg. Uch, a Dé

Middle Irish religious poem (6 qq)

Uga Corbmaic meic Cuilendáin

verse

29 st.

beg. In rogh so, a Rí na run

Cormac mac Cuilennáin

Cormac mac Cuilennáin

(d. 908)

bishop and king of Munster

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Early Irish religious poem (29qq) attributed to Cormac mac Cuilennáin. What appears to be a full copy of text is attested in a single manuscript, while fragments of it also turn up as citations elsewhere.

Vita Darercae

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Vita Mariani Scotti

prose

A Latin biography of Marianus Scottus, written by an anonymous Irish monk at the Benedictine abbey of St James in Regensburg, about a century after his death. It offfers a glimpse of the history of the Schottenklöster in southern Germany and Austria, particularly those in Regensburg and the daughter houses in Vienna, Würzburg and Eichstätt.

Vita metrica sanctae Brigidae

verse

beg. Christe Dei uirtus, splendor, sapienta Patris

Donatus Scottus of Fiesole

Donatus Scottus of Fiesole

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A metrical Latin Life of St Brigit thought to have been composed by the Irishman Donatus, bishop of Fiesole between 829–877. BHL 1458-1459.

Vita prima sanctae Brigitae

prose

Latin Life of St Brigit. BHL 1455-1456.

Vita quarta sanctae Brigitae

prose

Animosus [al. Anmchad]Animosus ... al. Anmchad

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A recension of a Latin life of St Brigit of Kildare which survives only in two Franciscan editions of the 17th century. The editors are John Colgan, who attributed the work to one Animosus (whose name he thought to be a Latin counterpart to the Irish name Anmchad), and Hugh Ward, who attributed it to Ultán of Ardbraccan. Richard Sharpe has argued that it was part of the so-called Dublin collection of Irish saints’ lives. BHL 1460.

Vita sanctae Brigitae (Cogitosus)

prose

CogitosusCogitosus

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CogitosusCogitosus

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Early Latin Life of St Brigit, possibly the earliest of its kind to survive. BHL 1457.

Vita sanctae Brigitae (lost)

prose

It is thought that a lost 7th-century Latin Life of St Brigit underlies both the vernacular Bethu Brigte (9th century) and the Vita prima sanctae Brigitae (of uncertain date).

Vita sanctae Moninnae

prose

ConchubranusConchubranus

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Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae

Vita sancti Abbani

prose

Latin Life of St Abbán of Mag Arnaide (Moyarney, now Adamstown in Co. Wexford)

Vita sancti Aedi filii Bricc

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Latin Life of Áed mac Bricc, patron saint of Rahugh, in three recensions

Vita sancti Albarti archiepiscopi Casellensis

prose

BHL 218.

Vita sancti Albei

prose

Latin life of St Ailbe of Emly.

Vita sancti Boecii

prose

Latin Life of St Buite (Buithe, Latin Boecius) of Monasterboice. It is a composite work, consisting of two parts: §§ 1-18, ending with the death of the saint, and §§ 19-31, on the saint’s miracles.

Vita sancti Brendani

prose

Latin Life of St Brénainn, abbot of Clonfert, of which there are five main recensions.

Vita sancti Cainnechi

prose

Latin Life of St Cainnech of Aghaboe (BHL 1519), which is known in three recensions.

Vita sancti Ciarani Cluanensis

prose

Vita sancti Columbae (Adomnán)

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Adomnán

Adomnán

(fl. c.628–704)

Adomnán mac Rónáin was abbot of Iona (r. 679–704) and author of the Latin Life of St Columba and an account of the holy places of the Near East (De locis sanctis). He is credited with the proclamation of the Lex innocentium or Cáin Adomnáin at the Synod of Birr.

Latin Life of St Columba (Ir. Colum Cille), Irish missionary, monk and founder of Iona, written by Adomnán, abbot of Iona, about a century after the saint’s death. The work is organised into three books: one on the saint’s prophetic revelations, another on the miracles performed by him and the final one on angelic apparitions. Despite its hagiographic content, it remains an important source of historical study.

Vita sancti Declani

prose

Latin vita of Declán of Ardmore

Vita sancti Endei abbatis de Arann

form undefined

Medieval Latin Life of St Énda of Aran

Vita sancti Fechini

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Latin life of St Féchín, abbot of Fore.

Vita sancti Fechini ex MSS Hibernicis (Colgan)

prose

Colgan (John)

Colgan (John)

(d. 1658)

Irish Franciscan at St Anthony’s College, Louvain; scholar, theologian, editor and hagiographer.

The second vita of St Féchín printed by John Colgan in his Acta sanctorum Hiberniae. Colgan made use of three Irish sources, which he conflated and translated into Latin to produce a composite text. The first life he found in a manuscript associated with Féchín's monastery in the island of Omey (vnam fusam ex Codice Immaciensi in Connacia, quam eius compilator aliàs recentior ... indicat ... desumptam esse ex alia latina); the second life is described as aliam habemus stylo plane uetusto et magnae fidei, sed principio et fine carentem. Plummer suggests that these lives must have corresponded to the vernacular life and homily found in NLI MS G 5. The third source is a metrical version now lost (tertiam uero uetusto et eleganti metro lxxiv distichis constante).

Vita sancti Findani confessoris

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Life of the 9th-century Irish saint Fintán of Rheinau (modern Switzerland, near Schaffhausen). He is said to be a Leinsterman whom vikings carried off as a captive to the Orkneys, after which he escaped and travelled as a pilgrim to Rome. On his way home, he met and joined the community of anchorites based at Rheinau.

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