Excerpts from a Book of David

INCIPIUNT EXCERPTA QUEDAM DE LIBRO DAUIDIS

Insular text, probably from the 6th century (16 canons)

Manuscript:

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Latin 3182, Codex Bigotianus, [s.X, Brittany]. p. 282-283. Catalogue Information.

Editions:

F.W.H. Wasserschleben (1851), Die Bussordnungen der adendländischen Kirche. Halle: Verlag, p. 101-102.

Schmitz, H.J. (ed.) (1858) Die Bussbücher und die Bussdisciplin der Kirche. Nach handschriftlichen Quellen dargestellt, Mainz [2nd ed., 2 vols., vol. 1], p. 492-493.

Haddan, Arthur West and Stubbs, Willian (eds.) (1864), Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland (Oxford) Vol 1; p.118-120.

Ludwig Bieler (1963), The Irish Penitentials, Scriptores Latini Hiberniae V, Dublin: DIAS, p. 70, 72.

Translations:

Ludwig Bieler (1963), The Irish Penitentials, Scriptores Latini Hiberniae V, Dublin: DIAS, p. 71, 73.

John T. McNeill and Helena M. Gamer (1938), Medieval handbooks of penance: a translation of the principal “libri poenitentiales” and selections from related documents, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 172-174.

Commentaries:

James Kenney (1929), The Sources for the Early History of Ireland: Vol.1 Ecclesiastical. Dublin: Four Courts Press, [1993, 2nd ed. and reprinted], p. 239-240.

Ludwig Bieler (1963), The Irish Penitentials, Scriptores Latini Hiberniae V, Dublin: DIAS, p. 3, 12-13.

Cyrille Vogel (1978), Les “Libri Paenitentiales”, Typologie des Sources du Moyen Âge Occidental, Turnhout: Brepols, p. 60-61.

Michael Lapidge and Richard Sharpe( 1985), A Bibliography of Celtic-Latin Literature 400-1200, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 144, p. 48.

Studies:

Frantzen, A.J. (1983) The Literature of Penance in Anglo-Saxon England, New Brunswick, p. 19.

Meens, Rob (2014), Penance in Medieval Europe, 600–1200, Cambridge: CUP, p. 40-43.

Farrell, Elaine C.S.P. (forthcoming), Taboos and Penitence: Christian Conversion in Early Medieval Ireland, Studia Traditionis Theologiae, Turnhout: Brepols. (Doctoral Thesis, UCD 2012).

Mews, Constant J. and Joyce, Stephen J., The Preface of Gildas, the Book of David, and the British Church in the Sixth Century. Peritia 29. p. 81-100.