Texts
De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae
Incoming data
Latin theological treatise on the nature of miraculous phenomena in Scripture. While sometimes attributed in the manuscripts to Augustine, the text is thought to have been written in the 7th century by an anonymous Irishman who is now often referred to as Augustinus Hibernicus or the Irish Augustine.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 10543-10544
Comprises index (ff. 21b-22a), Book 1 (ff. 22b-46b), Book 2 with index (ff. 46b-67b) and Book 3 with index (ff. 67b-75a)
ff. 21b–75a
Text
Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 34
Probably dependent on the copy in Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 20
ff. 259a–272b
Sources
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] Migne, Jacques-Paul [gen. ed.], Sancti Aurelii Augustini, Hipponensis episcopi, opera omnia: post Lovaniensium theologorum recensionem, 12 vols, vol. 3: Opera exegetica, Patrologia Latina, 35, Paris, 1841.
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2149–2200 Reprint of the 17th-century edition by the Benedictines of St.-Maur.
[ed.] MacGinty, Gerard, “The treatise De mirabilibus sacrae Scripturae: critical edition, with introduction, English translation of the long recension and some notes”, 2 vols, PhD thesis (unpublished), National University of Ireland, 1971.
Secondary sources (select)
MacGinty, Gerard, “The Irish Augustine: De mirabilibus sacrae Scripturae”, in: Próinséas Ní Chatháin, and Michael Richter (eds), Irland und die Christenheit: Bibelstudien und Mission. Ireland and Christendom: the Bible and the missions, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1987. 70–83.
Löfstedt, Bengt, “Notes on the Latin of the De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae of Augustinus Hibernicus”, in: Thomas OʼLoughlin (ed.), The Scriptures and early medieval Ireland: proceedings of the 1993 Conference of the Society for Hiberno-Latin Studies on Early Irish Exegesis and Homilectics, 31, Steenbrugge, Turnhout: In Abbatia S. Petri, Brepols, 1999. 145–150.
Simonetti, Manlio, “De mirabilibus Sacrae Scripturae: un trattato irlandese sui miracoli della Sacra Scrittura”, Romanobarbarica 4 (1979): 225–251.
Gorman, Michael M., “The myth of Hiberno-Latin biblical exegesis”, Revue Bénédictine 110 (2000): 42–85.
Especially 79–84
Kenney, James F., “Chapter III: The Irish church in the ‘Celtic’ period”, in: James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Revised ed., 11, New York: Octagon, 1966. 156–287.
275–277 [id. 104.]
Esposito, Mario, “On the Pseudo-Augustinian treatise De mirabilibus sanctae scripturae written in Ireland in the year 655”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 35 C — 1919 (1918–1920): 189–207.
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