A martyrology of four cities
Subtitle: Metz, Cologne, Dublin, Lund
By: edited by Pádraig Ó Riain
Contributors: Ado, Saint, Archbishop of Vienne, approximately 800-875; Henry Bradshaw Society
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society -- v. 118; Henry Bradshaw Society (Series) -- v. 118.
Publisher: Henry Bradshaw Society; Woodbridge, UK; Boydell Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; Rochester, NY
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781870252768
Subjects: Sources; Lunds universitetsbibliotek; Mortilogium et martyrologium Ecclesiae Cathedralis S. Trinitatis Dublin; Church history; Christian martyrs; Martyrologies; Biography; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Description: "The martyrology edited here, for the first time since the nineteenth century, derives from a rich variety of sources and has a fascinating history. While it draws on Danish and Irish manuscripts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the editor argues that its layers of Metz and Cologne saints were not added either in Ireland, as has been previously thought, or in Denmark, but rather in the Benedictine monasteries at these two medieval German cities. The presence in both manuscripts of a layer of Irish saints indicates that Irish activity on the Continent had a bearing on the early history of the text, and detailed investigations have led to the monasteries in Metz and Cologne as being those in which the text originated about the year 1000 AD."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Text of a martyrology derived largely from Ado of Vienne's Martyrologium, with the local additions made in Metz, Cologne, Dublin, and Lund.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250) and indexes.

English and Latin; introduction and commentary in English.