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Dum subito properas dulces invisere terras
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Latin poem by Colmán nepos cracavist addressed to a younger Irishman also named Colmán, whom he bids farewell as he (the younger Colmán) is returning to Ireland.
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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS nouv. acq. lat. 1615/ff. 128-193
context: rubric: Excerptum de astrologia. Duo sunt extremi vertices mundi quos apellant polos incl. Dum subito properas dulces invisere terras, Quodam forte die caelo dum turbidus imber Subheadings: f. 180: De positione et cursus planetarum; f. 181v: De intervallis earum; f. 182v: De peritia cursus lunae et maris, followed by two poems attributed to ‘Colmanus nepos cracavist’, beg. Quodam forte die caelo dum turbidus imber and Dum subito properas dulces invisere terrae.
in section: f. 179r–
Text
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS nouv. acq. lat. 1615/ff. 128-193
rubric: Item idem Embedded in an astronomical tract. Follows the poem attributed to Colmán ‘nepos cracavit’ beg. Quodam forte die caelo dum turbidus imber. Three MS lines follow verse line 15, headed De concordia solis et lunae: Ostendendum igitur qualiter ogduades minus plene sint et qualiter endegadę exuberant ut illarum detrimenta possint supplere.
f. 183r.8-183v.2
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[ed.] [tr.] Godman, Peter, Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance, London: Duckworth, 1985. xviii + 364 pp.
278–281
[ed.] Esposito, Mario, “The poems of Colmanus ‘nepos Cracavist’ and Dungalus ‘praecipuus scottorum’”, The Journal of Theological Studies 33 (1932): 113–131.
116–118
[ed.] Strecker, Karl [ed.], Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, vol. 6.1, MGH Antiquitates, Berlin: Weidmann, 1951.
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180–181
