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|Date=The text is no later than the 11th or 12th century, the date of the earliest manuscript. Peter Salmon suggests that the prayer is related to the main section of the Book of Cerne (Cambridge, University Library, MS Ll. 1. 10), which is usually dated to the 9th century and contains prayers and hymns of earlier date. It is not known if the preface, which attributes the prayer to St Brendan and refers to a version of the <em>Navigatio</em>, was originally part of the composition. | |Date=The text is no later than the 11th or 12th century, the date of the earliest manuscript. Peter Salmon suggests that the prayer is related to the main section of the Book of Cerne (Cambridge, University Library, MS Ll. 1. 10), which is usually dated to the 9th century and contains prayers and hymns of earlier date. It is not known if the preface, which attributes the prayer to St Brendan and refers to a version of the <em>Navigatio</em>, was originally part of the composition. | ||
|Century1= | |Century1=8th century | ||
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|Century2= | |Century2=11th century | ||
|Textual relationships= | |Textual relationships=The long list of invocations beginning <em>Libera me, Domine (sicut...)</em>, with its many biblical examples of divine intervention, may go back to a version of the <em>Commendatio animae</em>, an early church prayer now known from the Roman Breviary. The popularity of the latter in Ireland is also evident from the hymn <em>Sén Dé donfé for-donté</em> and the epilogue of the <em>Félire Óengusso</em>. In light of the reference to the <em>Navigatio sancti Brendani</em> in the preface of the <em>Oratio</em>, it may be significant that this text contains an episode in which Brendan and his companions encounter a gigantic sea monster and invoke the Lord for protection, repeating <em>Domine, libera nos/servos tuos...</em> and citing the examples of David and Goliath, and Jonah and the Whale. Peter Salmon observes that this passage is a little more extensive in some manuscript copies than others. | ||
|Draws on=Psalm 90 | |Draws on=Psalm 90; Commendatio animae; | ||
|Compare=Navigatio sancti Brendani | |Compare=Navigatio sancti Brendani; Sén Dé donfé for-donté; Félire Óengusso; | ||
|ObservableExtent=more or less complete | |ObservableExtent=more or less complete | ||
|Manuscripts2={{MS | |Manuscripts2={{MS | ||
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