Martin (Martin Joseph)
McNamara s. xx–xxi
Works authored
Contents: Preliminary material -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Irish scholars: early medieval Ireland & continental Europe -- Chapter 2. Irish biblical texts, glossarial material, and commentaries -- Chapter 3. Bible influences: early Irish Latin & vernacular literature -- Chapter 4. Christological and historical interpretation in the Psalms -- Chapter 5. Cathach of St Columba & the St Columba series psalm headings -- Chapter 6. Apponius' commentary on the canticle of canticles -- Chapter 7. Josephus Scottus' Abbreviatio commentarii Hieronymi in Isaiam -- Chapter 8. Theodulf of Orléans' Bible commentary and Irish connections -- Chapter 9. Background to Irish gospel texts -- Chapter 10. Glossed text on Matthew's Gospel -- Chapter 11. The Irish origin of Vienna 940: a commentary on Matthew -- Chapter 12. Hiberno-Latin apocalypse commentaries: purpose and theology -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Updates to Bernhrd Bischoff's Wendepunkte list -- Appendix 2. Libri scottice scripti in St Gallen Stiftsbibliothek catalogue -- Appendix 3. Critical edition of Canticle section of De enigmatibus -- Appendix 4. Irish gospel texts publication project -- Bibliography -- Indexes.
Contents: Preliminary material -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Irish scholars: early medieval Ireland & continental Europe -- Chapter 2. Irish biblical texts, glossarial material, and commentaries -- Chapter 3. Bible influences: early Irish Latin & vernacular literature -- Chapter 4. Christological and historical interpretation in the Psalms -- Chapter 5. Cathach of St Columba & the St Columba series psalm headings -- Chapter 6. Apponius' commentary on the canticle of canticles -- Chapter 7. Josephus Scottus' Abbreviatio commentarii Hieronymi in Isaiam -- Chapter 8. Theodulf of Orléans' Bible commentary and Irish connections -- Chapter 9. Background to Irish gospel texts -- Chapter 10. Glossed text on Matthew's Gospel -- Chapter 11. The Irish origin of Vienna 940: a commentary on Matthew -- Chapter 12. Hiberno-Latin apocalypse commentaries: purpose and theology -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Updates to Bernhrd Bischoff's Wendepunkte list -- Appendix 2. Libri scottice scripti in St Gallen Stiftsbibliothek catalogue -- Appendix 3. Critical edition of Canticle section of De enigmatibus -- Appendix 4. Irish gospel texts publication project -- Bibliography -- Indexes.
Works edited
In 1927 M. R. James published Latin Infancy Gospels, identified by him in two related but not identical manuscripts (one the British Library Arundel 404; the other from Hereford), together with a parallel text from the Irish manuscript known as the Leabhar Breac. Later researches brought to light more manuscripts of this Latin work, and also of the Irish text. James recognized that his apocryphal Latin Infancy text was compiled from a combination of the Protevangelium of James and a hitherto unknown text which he named "The Source". Recent research has identified a full Latin translation of the Protevangelium of James. A hitherto unrecognized Irish Infancy Narrative has also been identified in the Dublin manuscript known as the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. A deep study of this related tradition was called for. This has been carried out over the past ten years by an Irish team in conjunction with Professor Daniel Kaestli and AELAC. The fruits of this labour are published in these two volumes.
Volume 13 has a general introduction with a historical sketch of New Testament apocrypha in Ireland and a history of research on the subject. This is followed by a comparison of the Infancy Narratives in the Leabhar Breac and the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. There are special introductions to these Infancy texts, followed by critical editions of the Irish texts, accompanied by English translations and rich annotation. Next there is similar treatment of the Irish versified Narrative (from ca. 700) of the Childhood Deeds of Jesus (commonly known as the Infancy Narrative (or Gospel) of Thomas. There is then (in volume 14, but with continuous pagination) the edition and translation of an Irish thirteenth-century poem with elements from Infancy Narratives, and both Latin and Irish texts on the wonders at Christ's birth, accompanied by translations and notes. The edition of the Irish material is followed by a critical edition of the full Arundel and Hereford forms of the Infancy Narrative (here referred to as the "J Compilation"), together with a detailed study of all the questions relating to this work. The volume concludes with a critical edition (by Rita Beyers) of the Latin text of the Protevangelium of James, accompanied by a detailed study of the work.
The work contains a detailed study of the Latin translations of the Protevangelium of James and the transmission of this work in the West. The "J Compilation" (a combination of the Protevangelium and texts of Pseudo-Matthew) can be traced back in manuscript transmission to ca. 800, and must have originated some time earlier. Behind it stands an earlier "I ("I" for Irish) Compilation" without influence from Pseudo-Matthew, the form found in the Irish witnesses. It is argued that M. R. James's "Source" may be of Judaeo-Christian origin and may really be the Gospel of the Nazoreans. Among the indexes there is a list of all the Irish words found in the texts.
In 1927 M. R. James published Latin Infancy Gospels, identified by him in two related but not identical manuscripts (one the British Library Arundel 404; the other from Hereford), together with a parallel text from the Irish manuscript known as the Leabhar Breac. Later researches brought to light more manuscripts of this Latin work, and also of the Irish text. James recognized that his apocryphal Latin Infancy text was compiled from a combination of the Protevangelium of James and a hitherto unknown text which he named "The Source". Recent research has identified a full Latin translation of the Protevangelium of James. A hitherto unrecognized Irish Infancy Narrative has also been identified in the Dublin manuscript known as the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. A deep study of this related tradition was called for. This has been carried out over the past ten years by an Irish team in conjunction with Professor Daniel Kaestli and AELAC. The fruits of this labour are published in these two volumes.
Volume 13 has a general introduction with a historical sketch of New Testament apocrypha in Ireland and a history of research on the subject. This is followed by a comparison of the Infancy Narratives in the Leabhar Breac and the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. There are special introductions to these Infancy texts, followed by critical editions of the Irish texts, accompanied by English translations and rich annotation. Next there is similar treatment of the Irish versified Narrative (from ca. 700) of the Childhood Deeds of Jesus (commonly known as the Infancy Narrative (or Gospel) of Thomas. There is then (in volume 14, but with continuous pagination) the edition and translation of an Irish thirteenth-century poem with elements from Infancy Narratives, and both Latin and Irish texts on the wonders at Christ's birth, accompanied by translations and notes. The edition of the Irish material is followed by a critical edition of the full Arundel and Hereford forms of the Infancy Narrative (here referred to as the "J Compilation"), together with a detailed study of all the questions relating to this work. The volume concludes with a critical edition (by Rita Beyers) of the Latin text of the Protevangelium of James, accompanied by a detailed study of the work.
The work contains a detailed study of the Latin translations of the Protevangelium of James and the transmission of this work in the West. The "J Compilation" (a combination of the Protevangelium and texts of Pseudo-Matthew) can be traced back in manuscript transmission to ca. 800, and must have originated some time earlier. Behind it stands an earlier "I ("I" for Irish) Compilation" without influence from Pseudo-Matthew, the form found in the Irish witnesses. It is argued that M. R. James's "Source" may be of Judaeo-Christian origin and may really be the Gospel of the Nazoreans. Among the indexes there is a list of all the Irish words found in the texts.
Contributions to journals
(1) the full collation of a hitherto unstudied text, the fragments of an Irish Hebraicum Psalter in MS. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) fr. 2452 (tenth century), fols 75-84, which on analysis is revealed as an early representative of the typical Irish recension of the Hebraicum (AKI—the sigla for the psalter text of the three MSS Amiatinus, Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana Amiatino I; Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. perg. 38; Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale 24 [A. 41]);
(2) a more detailed examination of the Psalter of Cormac (thirteenth century);
and (3) of the so-called Psalter of Caimin (c. 1100).
With these, two comments on two other psalters are also given (that in the 'Reference Bible' and the Double Psalter of St-Ouen) while a preliminary section treats of texts having a bearing on the understanding of the psalter in Ireland (the Tituli psalmorum attributed to Bede; psalm prologues and biblical canticles and psalm prayers).
(1) the full collation of a hitherto unstudied text, the fragments of an Irish Hebraicum Psalter in MS. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) fr. 2452 (tenth century), fols 75-84, which on analysis is revealed as an early representative of the typical Irish recension of the Hebraicum (AKI—the sigla for the psalter text of the three MSS Amiatinus, Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana Amiatino I; Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. perg. 38; Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale 24 [A. 41]);
(2) a more detailed examination of the Psalter of Cormac (thirteenth century);
and (3) of the so-called Psalter of Caimin (c. 1100).
With these, two comments on two other psalters are also given (that in the 'Reference Bible' and the Double Psalter of St-Ouen) while a preliminary section treats of texts having a bearing on the understanding of the psalter in Ireland (the Tituli psalmorum attributed to Bede; psalm prologues and biblical canticles and psalm prayers).
