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Vita sancti Albei
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Latin life of St Ailbe of Emly.
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[ed.] [tr.] Ó Riain, Pádraig, Beatha Ailbhe: The life of Ailbhe, Irish Texts Society, 67, London: Irish Texts Society, 2017.
abstract:
Ailbhe, patron of the diocese of Cashel and Emly, a ‘second Patrick’ with ‘all Munster behind him’, was the most prominent southern Irish saint to have been made the subject of a Life. In this volume, all surviving textual witnesses, Latin and Irish, to Ailbhe’s Life are brought together under one cover. Each of the Latin and Irish texts is provided with an English translation. The Latin version of the saint’s Life in Rawlinson MS 505, and the vernacular version in Brussels MS 2324-40 are edited here for the first time.
comments: Contents: Preface; 1. Previous work on the Lives of St Ailbhe; 2. Contents of the Life; 3. Manuscripts, editions and character of the various recensions; 4. The Codex Samanticensis (S) version of the Latin Life; 5. The Rawlinson (R) version of Ailbhe's Life; 6. The Trinity College (T) and Marsh's Library (M) version of the Life; 7. The vernacular version of the Life; Commentary; Appendices.
58–89 (Salm.), 90–123 (Rawl.), 124–165 (TCD/Marsh's Library) Editions of the Latin lives in the Brussels MS (Cod. Salmenticesnsis), Rawlinson and TCD/Marsh's Library.
[ed.] Heist, W. W. [ed.], Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae: ex codice olim Salmanticensi, nunc Bruxellensi. Lives of the saints of Ireland, from the Salamanca manuscript now of Brussels, Subsidia Hagiographica, 28, Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1965.
118–131
Text from Brussels MS 7672-7674 (Cod. Salmanticensis).
[ed.] De Smedt, Charles, and Joseph De Backer, Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae ex codice Salmanticensi, Edinburgh and London, 1888.
Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum – scanned copy: <link>
236–260
Text from Brussels MS 7672-7674 (Cod. Salmanticensis).
[ed.] Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.
Internet Archive: <link>
46–64 Text from TCD/Marsh's Library.
Secondary sources (select)
Herbert, Máire, “British and Irish? Some thoughts on the Life of Saint Ailbe”, in: Erich Poppe, Simon Rodway, and Jenny Rowland (eds), Celts, Gaels, and Britons: studies in language and literature from antiquity to the middle ages in honour of Patrick Sims-Williams, Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 71–89.
