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Vita sancti Columbani (Jonas of Bobbio)

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Manuscript witnesses

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Admont, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 2

incipit: Columbanus etenim

f. 236r–f. 247r

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Admont, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 2

ff. 236r–247r

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Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, MS I.2.4° 6

olim Schloss Harburg, MS I. 2.

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Avignon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 276

ff. 110r–124v

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Bergamo, Biblioteca del Clero di S. Alessandro in Colonna, MS 227

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Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 48

ff. 184vb–191va

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Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 7984

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Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 8518-8520

Beginning lost.

f. 1r-31v

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Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 9289

Without preface Dominus eximis.

ff. 90r–97v

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Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 18108

Beg. of the 12th c.

ff. 182v–194v

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Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 642/vol. 5

ff. 7r–11vb

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 257

Text with both preface. No list of capitula.

pp. 237–?

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Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Conv. Soppr. A.I.1213

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Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS II.I.412

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Hereford, Cathedral Library, MS P vii 6

ff. 90vb–102ra

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London, British Library, MS Additional 21917

incipit: fuerit prudens lector vel auditor agnoscit Imperfect at the beginning. Written by hand A.

f. 6r–f. 12r

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London, British Library, MS Additional 21917

ff. 6r–12r

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London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius D iv

ff. 125r–132r

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London, British Library, MS Harley 2802

ff. 140ra–147va

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Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS Lat. 91

olim Biblioteca Lindesiana, MS lat. 101 = MS Crawford 101.

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Mantua, Biblioteca Comunale Teresiana, MS 475

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Metz, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 523

ff. 19r–50r

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Metz, Grand Séminaire, MS 1

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Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS B 55 inf

Two extracts.

ff. 242r–243r

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Montpellier, École de Médecine, MS 1/1

ff. 130–144

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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 1087

ff. 73v–108r

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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 4628

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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 18546/2

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Fell 2

p. 175 ff

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 163

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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 5600

ff. 2v–45v

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Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 1333

ff. 109r–131v

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Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 715/vol. 3

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Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 715/vol. 4

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St. Gallen, Staatsarchiv, MS Pfäfers XII

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 553

pp. 2–115

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The Hague, Royal Library, MS 70 H 50

ff. 17r–51v

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Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS F II 10

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Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS F III 15

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Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS F IV 12

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Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS F IV 26

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Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Reg. lat. 1025

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Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 430

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Volterra, Biblioteca Guarnacci, MS 6777

Not known to Krusch.

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Wormsley Park, Getty Library, MS BM4149

olim Holkam Hall 129.

ff. 35(37)r–55(57)r

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Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C 10i

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.

A new edition by Alain Dubreucq is forthcoming.

[ed.] [tr.] Tosi, Michele, Vita Columbani et discipulorum eius, Piacenza: Emiliana grafica, 1965.

Edition and translaton into Italian. Text of Metz, Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire, MS 1.

[ed.] Krusch, Bruno, Ionae Vitae sanctorum Columbani, Vedastis, Iohannis, MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum, 37, Hanover and Leipzig, 1905.

Digital MGH: <link>

1–294 direct link

[ed.] Krusch, Bruno (ed.), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (II), MGH Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 4, Hanover, 1902.

Digital MGH: <link>

61–152 (text); 1–61 (introduction); 153–156 (Appendix: De Bobuleno abbate) direct link

[ed.] Herwagen, Johann, and Johann Herwagen, Opera Bedae venerabilis presbyteri Anglosaxonis: viri in diuinis atque humanis literis exercitatissimi: omnia in octo tomos distincta, pout statim post praefationem suo elenco enumerantur, 8 vols, Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1563.

The edition was begun Johann Herwagen the Elder, who died before he could complete it, and continued by his son, who published and printed the work in 1563. Reprints: Cologne (1612); Cologne (1688).

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica – vol. 1: <link> Google Books – vol. 2: <link> Google Books – vol. 7: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 7 (originally from Google Books): <link> Internet Archive – vol. 8 (originally from Google Books): <link> Google Books – vol. 8: <link>

Vol. 3, 275–305 Editio princeps of Liber I.

[tr.] OʼHara, Alexander, and Ian Wood, Jonas of Bobbio, Life of Columbanus, Life of John of Réomé, and Life of Vedast, Translated Texts for Historians, 64, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017.

Secondary sources (select)

Krusch, Bruno, “Vita Columbani abbatis discipulorumque eius auctore Iona”, in: Bruno Krusch, and Wilhelm Levison (eds), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (V), 7, Hanover and Leipzig, 1920. 822–827.

Digital MGH: <link>

Addenda to the conspectus.

Krusch, Bruno, Ionae Vitae sanctorum Columbani, Vedastis, Iohannis, MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum, 37, Hanover and Leipzig, 1905.

Digital MGH: <link>

ix–xi Conspectus of manuscripts. direct link