Texts

Homily on the Deadly Sins

Early Irish
prose
Irish religious texts, Irish penitentials, sermons and homilies

Title

Homily on the Deadly Sins

Edited by Kuno Meyer under the German heading Von den Todsünden.

Initial words (prose)

Conæmdetar sruithe Érenn a ríaglaib na screptræ pennatóir dílgind frepthæ cech pechtæ ó biuc co m-mór

in Rawlinson B 512: ‘Conæmdetar sruithe Érenn a ríaglaib na screptræ pennatóir dílgind frepthæ cech pechtæ ó biuc co m-mór’ (‘The venerable of Ireland have drawn up from the rules of the Scriptures a penitential for the annulling and remedying of every sin, both small and great.’).⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Translated by Binchy in: Ludwig Bieler • D. A. Binchy, The Irish penitentials (1963): 259.

Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 3 A, ff. 1-19 [c.1467]
ff. 15r–15v
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 III, (a) ff. 75B-100, (b) ff. 37-44 [s. xv]
ff. 39rb–40vb
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 10 2, pp. 19-50 [s. xvi]
pp. 47–48

Language

Early Irish

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

Text derives from the Old Irish Penitential.⁽²⁾^{n. 2} Westley Follett, Céli Dé in Ireland (2006).

Classification

Irish religious texts Irish penitentials

Sources

Notes

^1.

Translated by Binchy in: Ludwig Bieler • D. A. Binchy, The Irish penitentials (1963): 259.

^2.

Westley Follett, Céli Dé in Ireland (2006).

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[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: II. Aus Rawlinson B. 512. Von den Todsünden”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 3 (1901): 24–28.

Celtic Digital Initiative – all Mitteilungen of ZCP 3: <link> CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Follett, Westley, Céli Dé in Ireland: monastic writing and identity in the early Middle Ages, Studies in Celtic History 23, Woodbridge, 2006.

125, 225

Bieler, Ludwig [ed.], and D. A. Binchy [appendix], The Irish penitentials, Scriptores Latini Hiberniae 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1963.

258 Appendix by Binchy

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C. A.,Dennis Groenewegen