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Letter from Columbanus to Pope Gregory
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[ed.] Gundlach, Wilhelm, “Columbae sive Columbani abbatis Luxoviensis et Bobbiensis epistolae”, in: Ernst Dümmler (ed.), Epistolae Karolini aevi, tomus I, 3, Berlin: Weidmann, 1892. 154–190, 720.
[ed.] Fleming, Patrick, Collectanea sacra: seu S. Columbani Hiberni abbatis..., Louvain, 1667.
See p. 157. Editio princeps from another, unknown manuscript. It was not Fleming but his publisher, Thomas Sheerin, who transcribed this text and had it included.
Secondary sources (select)
Stancliffe, Clare, “Columbanus and shunning: the Irish peregrinus between Gildas, Gaul, and Gregory”, in: Alexander OʼHara (ed.), Columbanus and the peoples of post-Roman Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 113–142.
Wright, Neil, “Columbanus’s Epistulae”, in: Michael Lapidge (ed.), Columbanus: studies on the Latin writings, 17, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997. 29–92.
