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» Author(s): Id:Boethius » Language(s): Latin language » Form: prose » Categories: Non-Celtic texts, Text entries
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Tract on arithmetic, including the study of the significance and categorisation of numbers, written by the Roman philosopher Boethius. In the early Middle Ages, it became one of the principal textbooks on the subject.


» Author(s): Id:Marie de France » Language(s): Old French » Form: verse » Categories: French texts, Text entries » Type: Breton lays

» Author(s): Id:Bale (John) » Language(s): Latin language » Form: prose » Categories: English texts, Text entries » Type: printed book
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The first published version of John Bale's chronological catalogue of British and other authors.


» Ascribed author(s): Id:Philo of Alexandria » Language(s): Latin language » Form: prose » Categories: Non-Celtic texts, Text entries
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Early Latin translation, likely via Greek, of a Hebrew tract of biblical exegesis.


[Hos Karolo regi versus Hibernicus exul], verse beg. ‘Dum proceres mundi regem venerare videntur’

» Author(s): Id:Hibernicus Exul » Ascribed author(s): Id:Hibernicus Exul » Language(s): Latin language » Form: verse » Categories: Hiberno-Latin texts, Text entries
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Latin poem addressed to Charlemagne and reflecting on his conflict with Tassilo III, duke of Bavary, whom he deposed in 788. The poem is preserved, in fragmentary form (103 hexametrical lines), in a single manuscript (Vatican, BAV, MS Reg. lat. 2078) and was written by an anonymous Irishman known from the heading as Hibernicus Exul.


» In English: “A mirror of two men” » Author(s): Id:Gerald of Wales » Language(s): Latin language » Form: form undefined » Categories: Cambro-Latin texts, Anglo-Latin texts, Text entries

» Initial words (prose): ‘Is í áis in tigerna an nodluic so atám’ » Language(s): Early Modern Irish » Form: prose » Categories: Scribal additions, Text entries
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Scribal colophon (dated 1454) at the end of the Leabhar na Rátha, in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610, f. 58vb


» In English: “Recreation for an emperor” » Author(s): Id:Gervase of Tilbury » Language(s): Latin language » Form: prose » Categories: Anglo-Latin texts, Text entries
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Encyclopaedic work written by the English jurist and cleric Gervase of Tilbury. It was dedicated to Emperor Otto IV and intended for his instruction and entertainment, although it is unclear if he ever heard or read the work. The work is divided into three books or decisiones: book I covers the early history of the world, from Creation onwards; book II offers a historical geography of the world (mappa mundi) and its provinces, with excursions on the Holy Land and the six ages of the world. While anecdotal material, including legends about marvels (mirabilia), is found throughout the first two books, book III is entirely devoted to marvellous phenomena.


» Initial words (prose): ‘Neidhi mac Onchon’ » Form: form undefined » Categories: Ulster Cycle, Irish genealogical texts, Text entries

» Form: form undefined » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries
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Three glossaries preserved in the Stowe manuscript RIA MS C i 2. Like the Lecan glossary, these provide single words to gloss difficult words.


» Author(s): Id:O'Sullivan Beare (Philip) » Language(s): Latin language » Form: prose » Categories: Modern sources on Ireland, Text entries
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Last known work by Philip O'Sullivan Beare


[Eol dam aided, erctha gním], verse beg. ‘Eol dam aided, erctha gním’

» Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: verse » Stanzas: 8 st. » Categories: Ulster Cycle, Early Irish poetry, Text entries
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Poem on the deaths of the seven Maines, sons of Medb and Ailill.


[De prima syllaba (Dícuil)], verse beg. ‘Ars cum nulla fuit, nosci qua syllaba prima’

» Author(s): Id:Dícuil » Language(s): Latin language » Form: verse, prose » Categories: Hiberno-Latin texts, Text entries
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A guide to prosody of initial syllables in Latin, authored by Dícuil, an Irish schoolmaster and scholar at the Carolingian court, in c. 825. It consists of a verse prologue and prose tract containing formulations of prosodic principles together with illustrations.


» Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: prose » Categories: Text entries, Medieval Irish literary adaptations
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Middle Irish, abridged version of Bede’s De locis sanctis


» Initial words (prose): ‘Cid ara ndéntar ceilebrad isna tráthaib-sea sech na trátha aile?’ » Language(s): Irish language » Form: prose » Categories: Irish religious texts, Text entries » Keywords: liturgy, canonical hours
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Irish note explaining why the canonical hours have been fixed at particular hours of the day.


» Author(s): Id:John of Cornwall » Language(s): Latin language » Form: form undefined » Categories: Cornish texts, Text entries
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Latin poem (139 hexametric lines) on Merlin and his prophecies, written by John of Cornwall in the middle of the 12th century, or somewhat later, in response to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s account of the same subject. In the introduction, John dedicates his work to his patron, Robert Warelwast (d. 1155), bishop of Exeter, or his succcessor Robert of Chichester (d. 1160?), and puts forward the claim that he is drawing on an independent Cornish source for his text. The text is accompanied by a prose commentary, notably including glosses in a variety of Brittonic, possibly Cornish, the origin and nature of which has been subject to some debate.


» In English: “The Life of St Patrick” » Author(s): Id:Muirchú » Language(s): Latin language » Form: prose » Categories: Irish hagiography, Text entries

[Xristus in nostra insula], verse beg. ‘Xpistus in nostra insula / que uocatur Hibernia’

» In English: “Christ in our island / which is called Ireland” » Ascribed author(s): Id:Ultán of Ardbraccan » Language(s): Hiberno-Latin » Form: verse » Stanzas: 3 st. » Categories: Hiberno-Latin texts, Text entries » Type: hymn, eulogy, abecedarius
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Early Hiberno-Latin hymn (3 qq) dedicated to St Brigit. The three stanzas start with the final letters of the alphabet (X-Y-Z), possibly suggesting that they originally stood at the end of an abecedarius, a longer hymn arranged from A to Z. It is prefaced with an Irish prose introduction, which attributes the poem to Ultán of Ardbraccan. MS T is accompanied with a number of Latin and Irish glosses, one of which praises Brigit with the title ‘the Mary of the Gaels’ (Maire na n.Goidel).


[Sanas Cormaic/Rincne], verse beg. ‘Rin(g)cne quasi quinque’ , part of or cited in: Sanas Cormaic

» Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: prose » Categories: Medieval Irish literature about poets, Sanas Cormaic, Finn Cycle, Text entries
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Entry for ‘rincne’ in Sanas Cormaic, with an anecdote about Ferchess, Mac Con and Finn úa Báiscni.


» In English: “The story of Cano mac Gartnáin” » Language(s): Late Old Irish, Early Middle Irish » Form: form undefined » Categories: Cycles of the Kings, Text entries


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