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Praefatio Gildae de paenitentia

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A British Latin text concerning penitential practices for monastic and clerical sins, which is attributed to Gildas and thought to date back to the 6th century.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 625

ff. 52r–54v

Text

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 3182

pp. 280–281

MS

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 3182

rubric: Incipit praefatio Gildae de poenitentia

p. 280–p. 281

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.

83–86 (English translation); 146–147 (text)

[ed.] [tr.] Bieler, Ludwig [ed.], and D. A. Binchy [appendix], The Irish penitentials, Scriptores Latini Hiberniae, 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1963.

60–65 (text and facing–page translation); 3, 12–13 (comments)

[ed.] Mommsen, Theodor [ed.], Chronica minora saec. IV, V, VI, VII, vol. 3, MGH Scriptores. Auctores antiquissimi, 13, Berlin: Weidmann, 1898.

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89–90

[ed.] Haddan, A. W., and W. Stubbs, Councils and ecclesiastical documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland, 3 vols, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869.

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113–115

[ed.] Schmitz, Hermann Joseph, Die Bussbücher und die Bussdisciplin der Kirche: nach handschriftlichen Quellen dargestellt, 2 vols, Mainz: Franz Kirchheim, 1883–1898.

Reprint: Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1958.

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495–497

[ed.] Wasserschleben, F. W. H., Die Bussordnungen der abendländischen Kirche: nebst einer rechtsgeschichtlichen Einleitung, Halle: Ch. Graeger, 1851.

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105–108

[tr.] McNeill, John T., and Helena M. Gamer, Medieval handbooks of penance; a translation of the principal libri poenitentiales and selections from related documents, Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies, 29, New York: Columbia University Press, 1938.

comments: Reprinted in 1965 and 1991.

175–178 (translation); 174–175 (introduction)

Secondary sources (select)

Meens, Rob [Meens, R. M. J.], Penance in medieval Europe, 600–1200, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

40–43

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.

60 [id. 147.]

Vogel, Cyrille, Les Libri paenitentiales, Typologie des sources du moyen Âge occidental, 27, Turnhout: Brepols, 1978.

60–61

Kenney, James F., “Chapter III: The Irish church in the ‘Celtic’ period”, in: James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Revised ed., 11, New York: Octagon, 1966. 156–287.

239–240