Texts
Ab Adam usque ad diluuium (Irish tract)
- Latin
- prose
Latin tract on the ages of the world.
Title
Ab Adam usque ad diluuium (Irish tract)
No heading.
First words (prose)
- Ab Adam usque ad diluuium
Manuscripts
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]
f. 5vb
beg. ‘Ab Adam usque ad diluuium anni mille .dc.luí’
Language
- Latin
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
(Possible) sources: Historia BrittonumHistoria Brittonum
Sources
Primary sources
[ed.] [tr.] Boyle, Elizabeth, “Biblical history in the Book of Ballymote”, in: Ruairí Ó hUiginn (ed.), Book of Ballymote, 2, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2018. 51–76.
Text based on Tristram, with a new English translation.
[ed.] Tristram, Hildegard L. C. [ed.], Sex aetates mundi: die Weltzeitalter bei den Angelsachsen und den Iren. Untersuchungen und Texte, Anglistische Forschungen, 165, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1985.
Note that Tristram, unlike Boyle, treats Ab Adam usque ad diluuium and whats follows beg. Prima igitur etas as two distinct texts.
web page identifiers
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
May 2023, last updated: July 2023
Elizabeth Boyle has observed that the text is nearly identical to the first paragraphs of the Historia Brittonum.