| Location: | Schaffhausen |
| Library / Collection: | Stadtbibliothek |
| Shelfmark: | Gen. 1 |
| Manuscript title: | Adamnanus de Iona, Vita Columbae |
| Caption: | Parchment · 71 ff. · 29 x 22.5 cm · Irish · between 688 and 713 |
| Language: | Latin, Ancient Greek |
| Manuscript summary: | This manuscript from the island cloister of Iona (Hy) in Scotland contains the oldest and best surviving version of the biography of the Irish saint Columba, composed between 608 and 704. In this work, Adamnan, the ninth abbot of Iona, tells the life story of cloister founder Columba (Columcille in Old Irish), who lived from 519/522 to 597. This manuscript can be dated to the time between the writing of the original text and the death of Iona's Abbot (or Bishop) Dorbbene in the year 713. It is the oldest codex containing a single biography in Latin, and is among the few datable manuscripts written in the Insular script during the 7th and 8th centuries. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.5076/e-codices-sbs-0001 |
| Permanent link: | http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/sbs/0001 |
| How to quote: | Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Gen. 1: Adamnanus de Iona, Vita Columbae (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/sbs/0001) |
| Online since: | 12/09/2008 |
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