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De vindictis magnis magnorum peccatorum
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A collection of excerpts from the Bible, focusing on a number of well-known sinners and their punishments. Some features, such as its use of the term vindicta crucis, might betray a Hiberno-Latin origin for the compilation.
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Ambrose, Shannon O., “The De vindictis magnis magnorum peccatorum: a ‘new’ Hiberno-Latin witness to the Book of Kings”, Eolas 5 (2011): 44–61.
Petitmengin, Pierre, “La compilation ‘De vindictis magnis magnorum peccatorum’: exemples d’anthropophagie tires des sieges de Jerusalem et de Samarie”, in: Roger Gryson (ed.), Philologia sacra: biblische und patristische Studien für Hermann J. Frede und Walter Thiele zu ihrem siebzigsten Geburtstag, Freiburg: Herder, 1993. Vol. 2: 622–639.
Cross, James E, “On Hiberno-Latin texts and Anglo-Saxon writings”, 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. 69–79.
