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Cologne prologue
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Latin prologue to an 84-year cycle, probably written in the late 4th century and preserved in manuscripts (ultimately) of Irish provenance or Irish affiliations. Cummian, in his Paschal letter, may be drawing on this text when he discusses the lunar limits for the Passion, Burial and Resurrection of Christ. It has been suggested that the prologue may be the ‘heretical’ computistical treatise to which Bede refers in his letter to Plegwin.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Cologne, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, MS 83(ii)
incipit: Cum me animus inpulsaret et cogitationes acciderunt
ff. 193v–?196v
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 63
incipit: Cum magna nime inpulsarer et cogitaciones accederent
ff. 81r–87v
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 63
rubric: Tractatus de Creatione et de annis ab origine mundi; item, de celebratione Paschae; ad quendam Vitalem inscriptus incipit: Cum magna nime [sic] inpulsarer et cogitaciones accederent, animo meo inquirere annos et tempora creature. This copy was begun by the main hand on ff. 81-83 and completed by another, anonymous hand on ff. 83-87.
f. 81r–
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[ed.] Mommsen, Theodor, Chronica minora saec. IV, V, VI, VII, vol. 1, MGH Scriptores. Auctores antiquissimi, 9, Berlin: Weidmann, 1892.
[ed.] Krusch, Bruno, Studien zur christlich-mittelalterlichen Chronologie: der 84jährige Ostercyclus und seine Quellen, Leipzig: Veit & Comp., 1880.
Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>
227–235 Based on the Cologne MS.
