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Vita sancti Boecii ‘Life of St Buite’

  • Latin
  • prose
  • Irish hagiography
Latin Life of St Buite (Buithe, Latin Boecius) of Monasterboice. It is a composite work, consisting of two parts: §§ 1-18, ending with the death of the saint, and §§ 19-31, on the saint’s miracles.
Manuscripts
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 505 1, ff. 1-210 = Codex Insulensis (MS R2 or I) [s. xivex]
ff. 154v–156v
Incomplete at the end, without any sign of the loss of folios.
Killiney, Franciscan Library, MS F 1 [1627]
pp. 178ff
London, British Library, MS Additional 4788 = Milles collection vol. 35 [s. xvii]
ff. 73v ff
Transcript by James Ware
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 8967
Transcript by James Ware
Language
  • Latin
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Subjects

Buite of Monasterboice
Buíte of Monasterboice
(d. 523 AD)
Buíte mac Brónaig (Latin Boetius), early Irish saint and eponymous founder of Mainistir Buite (Monasterboice)
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.
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87–97 [‘Vita sancti Boecii’]
[ed.] Skene, William F., Chronicles of the Picts, chronicles of the Scots, and other early memorials of Scottish history, Edinburgh, 1867.
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410–411 Extracts

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Riain, Pádraig, A dictionary of Irish saints, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.  
Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. This book is a guide to the (mainly documentary) sources of information on the saints named in these dedications, for those who have an interest in them, scholarly or otherwise. The need for a summary biographical dictionary of Irish saints, containing information on such matters as feastdays, localisations, chronology, and genealogies, although stressed over sixty years ago by the eminent Jesuit and Bollandist scholar, Paul Grosjean, has never before been satisfied. Professor Ó Riain has been working in the field of Irish hagiography for upwards of forty years, and the material for the over 1,000 entries in his Dictionary has come from a variety of sources, including Lives of the saints, martyrologies, genealogies of the saints, shorter tracts on the saints (some of them accessible only in manuscripts), annals, annates, collections of folklore, Ordnance Survey letters, and other documents. Running to almost 700 pages, the body of the Dictionary is preceded by a preface, list of sources and introduction, and is followed by comprehensive indices of parishes, other places (mainly townlands), alternate (mainly anglicised) names, subjects, and feastdays.
131–133 [‘Buithe’]
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.
372–373
Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.
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xxxiv–xxxvi
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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November 2013, last updated: January 2024
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