Texts

Vita sancti Endei abbatis de Arann

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Medieval Latin Life of St Énda of Aran

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Killiney, Franciscan Library, MS F 1

p. 291 ff

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 485

ff. 103r–108

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 505/ff. 1-210

f. 90 ff

MS

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 505/ff. 1-210

Life of St Énda of Aran (feast-day: 21 March)

f. 90a

Sources

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[ed.] Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.

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60–75 [‘Vita sancti Endei abbatis de Arann’]

[ed.] Colgan, John, Acta sanctorum veteris et maioris Scotiæ seu Hiberniæ, sanctorum insulæ, Louvain: Everard De Witte, 1645.

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704–710 This text, imperfect at the beginning, was taken from the Franciscan MS.

[ed.] Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, vel a catholicis scriptoribus celebrantur, 68 vols, vol. 8: Martius III (19–31), Antwerp: Ioannes Meursius, 1668.

267–274 Text taken from Colgan.

Secondary sources (select)

Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.

Internet Archive: <link>

lxii–lxiv

Kenney, James F., “Chapter V: The monastic churches: II. The churches of the sixth to ninth centuries; general treatises”, 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. 372–485.

374 [id. 164. ‘Life of St Énda’]

Zimmer, Heinrich, “Keltische Beiträge II: Brendans Meerfahrt”, Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum und deutsche Litteratur 33 (1889): 136–220.

Digizeitschriften.de: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

206 ff