Texts
De reddendis decimis
Incoming data
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8th-century Latin sermon which may have been produced in a Hiberno-Latin milieu on the continent.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. perg. 254/ff. 72-213
rubric: De reddendis decimis et primitiuis que dominus praecepit incipit: Primus homo qui dedit decimam
f. 172v–
MS
London, British Library, MS Royal 5 E xiii
rubric: De reddendis decimis et primitivis que dominus precepit Ends imperfectly.
f. 9r–
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.] [tr.] Scheirer, Christopher R. J., “The eighth-century sermon De reddendis decimis in London, British Library, MS Royal 5.E.XIII and Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, MS Aug. perg. 254: edition, translation, and commentary”, The Journal of Medieval Latin 27 (2017): 133–164.
abstract:
This article explores the history and textual relationships of the unpublished tithing sermon De reddendis decimis. The sermon, which was likely composed in the eighth century, survives in two manuscript witnesses of the eighth and ninth century, both of which have strong Hiberno-Latin affiliations. In addition to presenting an edition, translation, and full commentary on the text, I trace the sermon’s transmission history and manuscript context, and reveal its debt to a variety of late-antique, early-medieval, and apocryphal literary sources. The collocation of these material, textual, and orthographical features, I argue, locates this sermon’s origin in a Continental monastic center under the strong influence of Irish textual and intellectual traditions.
Incl. commentary.
