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Synodus I S. Patricii
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A collecion of canons which are said to have been promulgated by Patrick and his suffragan bishops Auxilius and Iserninus. The text has been variously dated to Patrick's time, the 6th and 7th century.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 279
rubric: Incipit sinodus episcoporum idest Patricii Auxilii Issernini
p. 1–
Text
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 279
rubric: Incipit sinodus episcoporum idest Patricii Auxilii Issernini
pp. 1–11
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.] Farris, M. J., The bishops’ synod: the first synod of Patrick, Liverpool: Francis Cairn, 1976.
[ed.] [tr.] Bieler, Ludwig [ed.], and D. A. Binchy [appendix], The Irish penitentials, Scriptores Latini Hiberniae, 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1963.
54–59; 240
[ed.] Ware, James, S. Patricio, qui Hibernos ad fidem Christi convertit, adscripta opuscula, London: apud Johannem Crook, 1656.
Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link>
42–46
[tr.] de Paor, Liam [tr.], Saint Patrick's world: the Christian culture of Ireland's apostolic age, Blackrock: Four Courts Press, 1993.
135–138 [‘The First Synod of Saint Patrick’]
[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.
76–80
Secondary sources (select)
Herren, Michael W., and Shirley Ann Brown [eds.], Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the fifth to the tenth century, Studies in Celtic History, 20, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002.
31–32
Charles-Edwards, T. M., Early Christian Ireland, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
245–247
Dumville, David N., “St Patrick at his ‘first synod’?”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 175–178.
Hughes, Kathleen, Early Christian Ireland: introduction to the sources, Sources of History, London, et al.: The Sources of History, 1972.
68–73
