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Lorica of Laidcenn
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Latin metrical hymn or lorica (breast-plate) attributed to Laidcenn mac Baíth Bannaig.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Cambridge, University Library, MS Ll. 1. 10/ff. 2-99
rubric: hanc luricam loding cantauit ter in omne die incipit: SUFFRAGARE TRINITATI / UNITAS UNITATIS MISERERE/ trinitas [4] Text with interlinear Old English glosses.
f. 43r.1–
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16
incipit: [S]uffragare trinitatis unitas Copy with interlinear glosses and attributed to Gillas (Gildas).
pp. 241b–242b
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[ed.] [tr.] Herren, Michael W., The Hisperica famina, 2 vols, vol. 2, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Studies and Texts, 85, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1987.
Vol. 2, 76–89
[dipl. ed.] Esposito, Mario, “Bachiarius. Arator. Lathcen”, Journal of Theological Studies, Old series, 30 (April, 1929): 286–291.
289–291 Version from the Verona MS.
[ed.] Blume, Clemens, “Pars altera: Hymnodia Hiberno-Celtica saeculi V.IX.”, in: Clemens Blume [ed.], Die Hymnen des Thesaurus Hymnologicus H. A. Daniels und andere Hymnen-Ausgaben. I. Die Hymnen des 5.-11. Jahrhunderts und die Irisch-Keltische Hymnodie aus den ältesten Quellen, 51, Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1908. 257–364.
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358–364 (see introduction for comments) [id. 262. ‘Lorica sancti Gyldae sapientis’]
[ed.] Stokes, Whitley, Irish glosses: a mediæval tract on Latin declension with examples explained in Irish: to which are added the Lorica of Gildas, with the gloss thereon, and a selection of glosses from the Book of Armagh, Dublin: Dublin University Press, 1860.
