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Epistolae deperditae fragmenta (Gildas)
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Fragments from letters attributed to Gildas, including one identified as being a response to Finniau concerning monastic matters. These fragments have been preserved as a florilegium (7 fragments) and as quotations attested throughout the Collectio canonum Hibernensis and elsewhere.
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MS
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 279
context: Florilegium (CCCC MS 279) rubric: Incipiunt Agustini dicta de cogum ratione incl. Epistolae deperditae fragmenta (Gildas) A large collection of citations from the Fathers, Scripture, and Gildas (pp. 34, 48–58) and Saint Patrick. Many of these passages are also to be found in the Hibernensis.
in section: p. 11.2–
Text
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 279
rubric: De excommonicatione dicit Gildas incipit: Non Noe Cham, filium suum, magice artis scribam ut arca aut mensae commonione voluit arcere Fragments 1-7: 1 (pp. 48-49), 2 (pp. 49-50), 3 (p. 50ff), 4 (p. 54ff), 5 (p. 56), 6 (p. 57), 7 (p. 58).
p. 48-58
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.] Winterbottom, Michael, Gildas. The ruin of Britain and other works, History from the Sources: Arthurian Period Sources, 7, London: Phillimore, 1978. iv + 162 pp.
80–82 (translation); 143–145 (text)
[ed.] Mommsen, Theodor [ed.], Chronica minora saec. IV, V, VI, VII, vol. 3, MGH Scriptores. Auctores antiquissimi, 13, Berlin: Weidmann, 1898.
[tr.] Williams, Hugh, Gildae De excidio Britanniae / Gildas: The ruin of Britain, London: The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1899.
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255–271 (Appendix A) [‘Extracts from letters (and probably short sermons) of Gildas’]
Secondary sources (select)
Lapidge, Michael, and Richard Sharpe, A bibliography of Celtic-Latin literature, 400-1200, Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources, Ancillary Publications, 1, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1985.
[id. 28.]
