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Literae testimoniales super mora in sancti Patricii Purgatorio

prose

A Latin account concerning Malatesta Ungarus, an Italian nobleman, and the visit he paid to St Patrick’s Purgatory in the year 1358.

Longas Inbir Domnann

verse

27 st.

beg. Longas Inbir Domnann

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Irish poem (27 qq) attributed to Colum Cille, which prophesies the arrival of a large fleet of foreign invaders at Inber Domnann (Malahide Bay, north Co. Dublin) before Judgment Day.

Purdan Padrig

prose

A Middle Welsh version of the Tractatus de Purgatorio sancti Patricii, a popular Latin text which offers an account of the afterlife through the vision of an Irish knight who has travelled to ‘St Patrick’s Purgatory’ (Station Island, Lough Derg).

Sechnaid ifern a dhaine

verse

13 st.

beg. Sechnaid ifern, a dhaine

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Medieval Irish poem attributed to Colum Cille, which describes the terrible punishments awaiting sinful souls in hell.

Sgél Ainnte Crisd

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Three utterances of the soul

prose

Latin eschatological sermon attributed to Augustine.

Tiucfa aimser dubach

verse

28 st.

beg. Tiucfa aimser dubach / cumthach brónach

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Irish prophetic poem ascribed to Colum Cille.

Tochmarc Ferbe

prose

prosimetrum

Prosimetric tale from the Ulster Cycle

Tractatus de Purgatorio sancti Patricii

prose

H. of SaltryH. of Saltry

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On the Purgatorium sancti Patricii and the vision of a knight called Owein

Trédhe nach fuilngeand rígh réil

verse

beg. Trédhe nach fuilngeand rígh réil

Becc mac Dé

Becc mac Dé

(d. 550s)

legendary seer, best known from literary sources as an Irish prophet associated with Díarmait mac Cerbaill

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Medieval Irish prophetic poem (72 qq) attributed in the final stanza to Bécán Bec mac Dé, better known elsewhere as the prophet Bec mac Dé. According to Eleanor Knott, it is a composite work, which may be regarded as falling into at least two sections (A = qq. 1–13, B = qq. 14-72).

The two deaths

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Visio Pauli (Redaction IV)

prose

A redaction of the long Latin version of the Visio Pauli, known for having English or Insular connections. Irish connections or even origins have also been suggested on the basis of some Hibernicisms and affinities with Hiberno-Latin texts.

Visio Pauli (Redaction VI)

prose

A redaction of the Long Latin version of the Visio Pauli, known for having Irish connections.

Visio Pauli (Redaction XI)

prose

A Latin text of Insular, possibly Irish origin, which consists of extracts from a version of the Visio Pauli (Long Latin 1 redaction) and additional material.

Memoriale super visitatione Laurencii Ratholdi factum de Purgatorio sancti Patricii (James Yonge)

prose

Yonge (James)

Yonge (James)

(d. c.1425)

Anglo-Irish notary, writer and translator active in Dublin. His writings include an English adaptation of the Secreta secretorum, which was commissioned by the earl of Ormond, and an account of the pilgrimage of a Hungarian nobleman, Laurence Rathold, to St Patrick’s Purgatory.

Latin account of a Hungarian nobleman, Laurence Rathold of Pásztó, and the pilgrimage he undertook in 1411 to the island of St Patrick’s Purgatory.

Visiones Georgii

prose

Latin account of the pilgrimage of a Hungarian knight, Georgius Grissaphan/Crissaphan, to St Patrick’s Purgatory and the visions he experienced.

Visiones sanctae Aldegundis (Subnius)

prose

Subnius [abbot of Nivelles]

Subnius ... abbot of Nivelles

(s. vii)

Abbot of Nivelles, who is said to have recorded the visions of Aldegund of Maubeuge and whose account of them was used by the author of her Vita; possibly an Irishman whose name in Irish was Suibne.

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An account of the visions and revelations of St Aldegund, which is purported to have been written by Subnius or Subinus, abbot of Nivelles, and which is now lost if it existed at all. The anonymous author of the Vita prima of the saint claimed to have used it: Supradicta famula Dei Aldgunda de visionibus atque revelationibus spiritalibus, quas Christus ei sponsus eius revelavit, cuidam viro religioso Subnio abbati de Nivialensi monasterio narravit ordinanter et scribendo tradidit.

Vita sancti Fursei

form undefined

Life of the Irish missionary St Fursa (d. c. 649). BHL 3209.

Y naw rhinwedd

prose

A Middle Welsh version of the ‘nine answers/virtues of Christ’, which is given by Elis Gruffydd in Cardiff MS 3.4.

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