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The Schaffhausen Adomnan

The Schaffhausen Adomnan

Bracken, Damian

Hardcover

Religion General General ChristianityIrish History

ISBN10: 178205118X
ISBN13: 9781782051183
Publisher: Cork Univ Pr
Published: Feb 28 2015
Pages: 282
Weight: 6.30
Height: 1.80 Width: 9.90 Depth: 14.10
Language: English
This facsimile of a major Irish historical manuscripts reproduces the earliest surviving copy of Adomnan's Vita Columbae, the Life of St Columba, dating from the late seventh century. Columba established one of the greatest Irish monastic and cultural foundations of the Middle Ages on the Island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland, in the 560s.



Adomnan's Life of St Columba has been described as perhaps the most sophisticated saint's life to be written in western Europe in the course of the seventh century. It bears witness to the scholarly and spiritual attainments of early Irish Christian culture. The manuscript reprinted in facsimile is one of the foremost achievements of that learned culture and has been preserved in the Stadtbibliothek, Schaffhausen, Switzerland since the eighteenth century.

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