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Celtic scholar and philologist Whitley Stokes (1830 1909) edited
and translated many important early medieval texts from Ireland, in
Latin and Irish, which remain standard reading. This two-volume
edition of works about Patrick, the fifth-century apostle to
Ireland, was first published in 1887. The Tripartite Life, compiled
around 900 CE, is the earliest-known saint's life in Irish. It was
intended to be read over the three days of the saint's festival.
Hagiography rather than history, with many fictitious and legendary
elements, it is partly in Irish and partly in Latin. The Irish
portions are translated into English. Volume 1 includes an
extensive introduction on the manuscript sources, the work's
probable date on linguistic grounds, and the social context in
which it originated. Stokes also attempts to disentangle fable from
known biographical information about Patrick, and discusses the
saint's own writings and the annalistic references given in Volume
2.
Celtic scholar and philologist Whitley Stokes (1830 1909) edited
and translated many important early medieval texts from Ireland, in
Latin and Irish, which remain standard reading. This two-volume
edition of works about Patrick, the fifth-century apostle to
Ireland, was first published in 1887. Volume 2 contains a range of
works dating from the fifth to the eleventh century. It includes
the two surviving works that can be attributed to Patrick himself,
the Confession and Letter to Coroticus. The excerpts from the Book
of Armagh from the seventh century onward reflect the growing
nationwide cult of St Patrick, and Armagh's claim to ecclesiastical
primacy by associating Patrick with its church. These include the
accounts of Patrick by Tirechan and Muirchu, and the 'Book of the
Angel'. There are also hymns by Secundinus and Fiacc, Ninnine's
prayer and an Irish homily from the Lebar Brecc. Translations of
the Irish, along with several appendices and indexes, are also
provided.
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