Adamnanus, de Iona (624-704)
This manuscript from the island monastery of Iona (Hy) in Scotland contains the oldest and best surviving version of the biography of the Irish saint Columba, composed between 608 and 704. In this work, Adamnan, the ninth abbot of Iona, tells the life story of monastery founder Columba (Columcille in Old Irish), who lived from 519/522 to 597. This manuscript can be dated to the time between the writing of the original text and the death of Iona's Abbot (or Bishop) Dorbbene in the year 713. It is the oldest codex containing a single biography in Latin, and is among the few datable manuscripts written in the Insular script during the 7th and 8th centuries.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
- Adamnanus, de Iona Found in: Standard description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Vita Columbae (S. 1a-136a)
Incipit: Beati nostri patroni
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- Adamnanus, de Iona (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Adomnán, Vita Columbae Found in: Additional description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Vita S. Columbae (p. 1-136)
Incipit: Beati nostri patroni christo sufragante uitam discripturus fratrum flagitationibus obsecundare uolens
Explicit: magis ac magis glorificans in mensis sublimat honoribus qui est benedictus in saecula. Amen.
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- Adamnanus, de Iona: Prima praefatio (p. 1a-2a)
Incipit: Beati nostri patroni christo sufragante uitam discripturus
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- Adamnanus, de Iona: Secunda praefatio (p. 2a-5a)
Incipit: Uir erat uitae uenerabilis et beatae memoriae monasteriorum pater et fundator
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- Adamnanus, de Iona: Primi libri kapitualtiones (p. 5a-6a)
Incipit: De uirtutum miraculis breuis narratio
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- Adamnanus, de Iona: Liber primus (de profeticis reuelationibus) (p. 6a-52b)
Incipit: Uir itaque uenerandus qualia uirtutum documenta dederit in huius libelli primordiis
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- Adamnanus, de Iona: Liber secundus (de uirtutum miraculis) (p. 52b-103b)
Incipit: Alio in tempore cum uir uenerandas in scotia apud sanctum findbarrum
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- Adamnanus, de Iona: Liber tertius (de angelicis uisionibus) (p. 103b-136a)
Incipit: In primo ex his tribus libellis libro ut superius commemoratum est
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- Adamnanus, de Iona: [Adamnanus, Vita sancti Columbae] Found in: Additional description
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Latin composite manuscript from the period between 1150 and 1250, written in Southern Germany, perhaps even in St. Gall. The volume contains (not quite complete) the sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux on the Old Testament Song of Songs (Sermones super cantica canticorum), the history of the First Crusade by Robert of Reims (Historia Hierosolimitana), the work De locis sanctis by the Irish scholar and saint Adomnán of Iona († 704), a Relatio about the Apostle Thomas as well as short verses about the parts of the Liturgy of the Hours (Versus de horis canonicis), and verses about the ten plagues of Egypt (Versus de plagis Aegyptii).
Online Since: 10/07/2013
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Arculphus de locis sanctis libri III auct. Adamnano (S. 254-284) Found in: Standard description
- Adamnanus, de Iona (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Robertus, Remensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Adamnan of Iona (Hy; ca. 624-704), Vita of Saint Columba († 597), with a faded pen drawing of the saint at prayer.
Online Since: 06/12/2006
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Adamnan, Leben des hl. Columba Found in: Standard description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Vita sancti Columbae (5-163) Found in: Standard description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Prima praefatio apologica (5-6) Found in: Standard description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Prefatio secunda (6-10) Found in: Standard description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Vita (10-58) Found in: Standard description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Miracula (58-163) Found in: Standard description
- Adamnanus, de Iona (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Greith, Carl Johann (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Adomnán, Vita Columbae (uersio breuior) Found in: Additional description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Vita S. Columbae (uersio breuior) (p. 5-163)
Incipit: Beati nostri patroni christo suffragante uitam descripturus fratrum flagitationibus obsecundare uolens
Explicit: cui est cum patre honor uirtus laus gloria et imperium sempiternum in unitate spiritus sancti per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.
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- Adamnanus, de Iona: Prima praefatio (p. 5-6)
Incipit: Beati nostri patroni christo suffragante uitam descripturus
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- Adamnanus, de Iona: Secunda praefatio (p. 6-10)
Incipit: Uir erat uitae uenerabilis et beatae memoriae monasteriorum pater et fundator
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- Adamnanus, de Iona: Liber primus (de profeticis reuelationibus) (p. 10-58)
Incipit: Sanctus igitur columba nobilibus fuerat oriundus genitalibus
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- Adamnanus, de Iona: Liber secundus (de uirtutum miraculis) (p. 58-110)
Incipit: Alio in tempore cum uir uenerandus in scotia apud sanctum findbarrum episcopum
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- Adamnanus, de Iona: Liber tertius (de angelicis uisionibus) (p. 110-163)
Incipit: In primo ex his tribus libellis libro ut superius commemoratum est
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- Adamnanus, de Iona (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Greith, Carl Johann (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Adamnán von Hy, Vita sancti Columbae Found in: Additional description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Vita sancti Columbae (p. 5-163) Found in: Additional description
- Adamnanus, de Iona (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Greith, Carl Johann (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Adamnanus, de Iona: Vita S. Columbae Found in: Additional description
- Adamnanus, de Iona (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Greith, Carl Johann (Librarian) Found in: Additional description