Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: L201080

The Liber Angeli

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Witley Stokes

Electronic edition compiled by Roman Bleier

Funded by Trinity College Dublin Long Room Hub and
King's College London and
CENDARI: Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure This digital transcription of the Liber Angeli was produced during a CENDARI research fellowship at King's College London.

Extent of text: 2660 words

Publication

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(2015)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: L201080

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Notes

Sources

    Primary Manuscript
  1. Dublin, Trinity College MS 52, Book of Armagh, fo. 20 va–fo. 22 ra (Stokes's numbering: 20 b 1 - 22 a 1). The manuscript was written c. 807 in small Irish minuscule and probably three scribes were involved copying it. The Liber Angeli was copied by Ferdomnach, a master scribe of Armagh. The text is within a section called the Patriciana, containing texts related to St Patrick.
    Selected editions and translations
  1. Whitley Stokes (ed.), The Tripartite Life of Patrick, with other documents relating to that Saint with translations and indexes, Rolls Ser. 8vo, Part I. cxcix + 267 [8] pp. facs. Part II. 269–676 (London 1887).
  2. John Gwynn (ed.), Liber Ardmachanus = The Book of Armagh (Dublin 1913).
  3. Edward Gwynn (ed.), Book of Armagh,the Patrician Documents, in Facsimiles in Collotype of Irish Manuscripts, 3 (Dublin 1937).
  4. Kathleen Hughes (ed.), The Church in early Irish society (London 1966) pp 275-81.
  5. Ludwig Bieler and Fergus Kelly (edd. and trans.), The Patrician texts in the Book of Armagh, edited with introduction, translation and commentary (Dublin 1979) pp 184-91.
  6. David Howlett, The structure of the Liber Angeli, Peritia, 12 (1998) 254-70.
  7. Franz Fischer and Anthony Harvey (edd.), Saint Patrick’s Confessio HyperText Stack (Dublin 2011) (http://www.confessio.ie/) (accessed: 20.10.2015) [facsimile images of the Patrician section of the Book of Armagh].
    Additional Reading
  1. Charles Graves, On the date of the MS called the Book of Armagh, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 3 (1844) 316–24.
  2. Edmund Hogan, "Patrician Documents", Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 8, 3rd ser. (1887) 229–42.
  3. Whitley Stokes and John Strachan (eds.), Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus: a collection of Old Irish glosses, scholia, prose and verse, volume 2 (Cambridge 1903) 238–243.
  4. J. B. Bury, Sources of the Early Patrician Documents, English Historical Review (1904) 493–503.
  5. Elias Avery Lowe (ed.), Codices Latini Antiquiores: a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century II (Oxford 1934).
  6. Paul S. Grosjean, Analyse du Livre d'Armagh, Analecta Bollandiana 63 (1944) 33–41.
  7. Thomas F. O'Rahilly, Review: The Life and Legend of St Patrick: Problems of Modern Scholarship by Ludwig Bieler, Irish Historical Studies, 8, 31 (1953) 268-79.
  8. Kathleen Mulchrone, Ferdomnach and the Armagh Notulae, Ériu 18 (1958) 160–3.
  9. Daniel A. Binchy, Patrick and his biographers: ancient and modern, Studia Hibernica 2 (1962) 7–173.
  10. Ludwig Bieler, The Book of Armagh, in Liam de Paor (ed) Great books of Ireland (Dublin 1967) 51–63.
  11. Francis John Byrne, Review The Church in Early Irish Society by Kathleen Hughes, Irish Historical Studies, 17, 65 (1970) 121–3.
  12. James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: ecclesiastical; an introduction and guide (New York 1979).
  13. Joseph F. Kelly, Review of The Patrician Texts in the Book of Armagh by Ludwig Bieler, Speculum, 56, 3 (1981) 585–7.
  14. Richard Sharpe, Palaeographical considerations in the study of the Patrician documents in the Book of Armagh, Scriptorium: International Review of Manuscript Studies, 36 (1982) 3–28.
  15. Richard Sharpe, The Patrician Documents, Peritia 1 (1982) 363–9.
  16. Richard Sharpe, Some problems concerning the organization of the Church in early medieval Ireland, Peritia, 3 (1984) 230–70.
  17. Michael Lapidge and Richard Sharpe, A bibliography of Celtic-Latin literature 400-1200 (Dublin 1985).
  18. Jane Stevenson, Literacy in Ireland, the evidence of the Patrick dossier in the Book of Armagh, in: The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe, Rosamond McKitterick (ed) (Cambridge 1990) 11–35.
  19. David N. Dumville, The afterlife of Liber Angeli, in: Saint Patrick A.D. 493–1993 (Woodbridge, Suffolk 1993) 253.
  20. Liam De Paor, Saint Patrick's world: the Christian culture of Ireland's apostolic age (Blackrock and Dublin 1993)
  21. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Early Medieval Ireland, 400-1200 (London and New York 1995) 158.
  22. Joseph Falaky Nagy, Conversing with angels and ancients, literary myths of medieval Ireland (Ithaca, NY 1997).
  23. T.M. Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland (Cambridge 2000) 421–8.
  24. Michael Richter, Ireland im Mittelaler, Kultur und Geschichte (Münster, Hamburg und London 2003; 1st ed. 1983) 101–7.
  25. Clare Stancliffe, Religion and society in Ireland, in: The new Cambridge medieval history I, c. 500–c.700, Paul Fouracre (ed) (Cambridge 2005) 397–425.
  26. Thomas O'Louglin, Discovering Saint Patrick (London 2005) 112–6.
  27. Thomas O'Loughlin, Armagh, in: Celtic culture, a historical encyclopedia, 1, John T. Koch (ed) (Santa Barbara 2006) 80.
  28. Elva Johnston, Literacy and Identity in Early Medieval Ireland, Woodbridge 2013.
  29. Edel Bhreathnach, Ireland in the medieval world, AD 400-1000: landscape, kingship and religion (Dublin 2014) 192–212.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. The Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick, with other documents relating to that Saint, edited with translations and indexes (Vol. II). Whitley Stokes (ed), First edition [cxcix + 267 [8] pp. facs.] Her Majesty's Stationery OfficeLondon (1887)

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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Sampling Declaration

The text of this electronic edition represents pp. 352–356 of Stokes's printed edition. Footnotes are integrated into the markup.

Editorial Declaration

Correction

Text proofread twice by Roman Bleier.

Normalization

The electronic texts represents Stokes's edited text from the Book of Armagh. Stokes marked column and page breaks in the Book of Armagh. This is normalised in the electronic edition and tagged mls n="". Stokes's footnotes were encoded as editorial notes and marked note type="auth" n="". In the print edition footnotes start on every page as a new sequence (starting with 1). In the electronic edition this was changed to one continuous sequence (1-10). Notes by the editor of the electronic edition are marked note resp="RB".

Quotation

Direct speech is tagged q. Words highlighted in the print edition are encoded in hi rend="".

Hyphenation

Hyphens marking the continuation of a word in the next line are silently removed.

Segmentation

Stokes's paragraphs and page breaks are encoded.

Interpretation

Names are not tagged.

Profile Description

Created: The Book of Armagh was probably copied at Armagh ca. (807) .

Use of language

Language: [LA] Text is in Latin.
Language: [EN] Witness list and footnotes contain English.
Language: [GR] Main text and footnotes contain Greek.

Revision History