The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, April 1865 Volume 1. Various
---------------------------------------------------------------
Author: Various
Number of Pages: 26 pages
Published Date: 13 Sep 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781236726445
File size: 27 Mb
Download Link: The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, April 1865 Volume 1
---------------------------------------------------------------
Excerpt: ...of St. Gall, in Switzerland, possessed for centuries many old Irish manuscripts, amongst which are mentioned by Von Arx, "Quatuor Evangelia; Evang. S. Joannis; Epistolae S. Pauli; liber Prophetarum; et plura fragmenta," all which are styled Codicis Scottici in a catalogue of the ninth century (Monumenta Germ. Historica. tom. 2, pag. 66 et 78). The monastery of Bobbio, however, was distinguished above all others for the richness of its store of manuscripts: it was founded by Irish Religious in the seventh century, and for a long subsequent period was the great literary mart of North Italy, and a cherished resort of Irish pilgrims. From the present of books made to this monastery by an Irish ecclesiastic named Dungall, we may judge how abundant were the Biblical treasures of our island before the tenth century. The ancient list of these books is published by Muratori, and it comprises not only the Evangelium plenarium, and Psalterium, and other Books of Scripture, but also the commentaries of Origen, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, St. Gregory the Great, St. Ambrose, Bede, Cassiodorus, and Albinus; the poems of Fortunatus, Paulinus, Arator, Prudentius, and Juvencus; the Ecclesiastical History of Hegesippus; and one work with the curious title, "librum quendam Latine Scotaicae linguae," which probably means a treatise in Latin on the Irish language (See Muratori, Antiqq. Ital., iii. 818). Such collections of books, once so abundant in our island, were deliberately pillaged and destroyed, first by the pagan Danes, and again by the Protestant maligners of our country, under Henry VIII. and Elizabeth. In a preceding article, "The See of Cork," we have given a specimen of the Scriptural books preserved in an humble Franciscan convent in Youghal in 1490; and Dr. Reeves, in his Essay on the Culdees, gives us a short notice of another Irish library in the twelfth century, in which the Gospels and copies of other portions of the Sacred Scripture hold their usual...
Read online The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, April 1865 Volume 1
Buy The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, April 1865 Volume 1
Download The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, April 1865 Volume 1 ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent
Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, April 1865 Volume 1 ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent
Links:
broken enter key laptop
Transactions of the ... Session of the American Institute of Hom Opathy, Volume 25 pdf
secret key encryption methods