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Letter from Columbanus to Pope Boniface

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Letter from Columbanus addressed to Pope Boniface IV and written in 613.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Exemplar (lost) of St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 1346

Lost. Provenance: Bobbio.

Text

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 1346

17th cent.

pp. 88–109

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Walker, G. S. M. [ed.], Sancti Columbani opera, Scriptores Latini Hiberniae, 2, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1957.

CELT – Epistulae (text): <link> CELT – Epistulae (translation): <link>

[‘Epistula V’]

[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.

Collection: Dmgh.de: <link>

170–177

[ed.] Fleming, Patrick, Collectanea sacra: seu S. Columbani Hiberni abbatis..., Louvain, 1667.

Editio princeps.

Secondary sources (select)

Wright, Neil, “Columbanus’s Epistulae”, in: Michael Lapidge (ed.), Columbanus: studies on the Latin writings, 17, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997. 29–92.

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. 639.]