Texts
De ratione conputandi
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Manuscript witnesses
MS
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5413-5422/ff. 63-108, 117-124
incipit: Sciendum nobis quomodo sol in principalibus linguis uocatur No heading.
f. 77v.m–
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[ed.] Walsh, Maura, and Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Cummian’s letter De controversia Paschali: together with a related Irish computistical tract De ratione conputandi, Studies and Texts, 86, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1988.
Secondary sources (select)
Warntjes, Immo, The Munich computus: text and translation. Irish computistics between Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede and its reception in Carolingian times, Stuttgart, 2010.
Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, “A seventh-century Irish computus from the circle of Cummianus”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 82 C (1982): 405–430.
abstract:
The Letter of Cummian on the Paschal question (c. A.D. 632) has long been recognised as one of the primary historical documents of the early Irish churches. The purpose of this paper is to show that a computus in Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, MS 5413-22, is the work either of Cummian himself or of a member of his immediate circle, and therefore represents an important new witness to the state of scientific learning in seventh-century Ireland.
