Vita Columbae

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Langue:	Latin
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Contenu:	Récit de la vie de saint Colomban.
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The Life of St. Columba, Founder of Hy, written by Adamnan, ninth abbot of that monastery. The text printed from a manuscript of the eighth century; with the various readings of six other manuscripts preserved in different parts of Europe. To which are added, copious notes and dissertations, illustrative of the early history of the Columbian institutions in Ireland and Scotland. By William Reeves, Dublin, Dublin University Press for the Irish Archæological and Celtic Society, 1857, lxxx + 499 + 10 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Itinera Hierosolymitana et descriptiones Terrae Sanctae bellis sacris anteriora et latina lingua exarata sumptibus Societatis illustrandis Orientis Latini monumentis ediderunt Titus Tobler et Augustus Molinier, Genève, Fick (Publications de la Société de l'Orient latin. Série géographique, 1-2 et 4), 1879-1885, 3 t. (ici p. 139-210) [Gallica] [GB: t. 1:1-2, t. 2] [IA: t. 1:1-2, t. 2]
Life of St. Columba, Founder of Hy. Written by Adamnan, ninth abbot of that monastery. Edited by William Reeves, Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas (The Historians of Scotland, 6), 1874, clxxxiv + 385 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Adamnani Vita S. Columbae, edited from Dr. Reeve's text; with an introduction on early Irish church history, notes and a glossary by J. T. Fowler, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1894.
Brüning, Gertrud, « Adamnans Vita Columbae und ihre Ableitungen », Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, 11, 1917, p. 213-304. [GB] [HT] [IA]
Adamnani Vita S. Columbae, edited from Dr. Reeve's text; with an introduction on early Irish church history, notes and a glossary by J. T. Fowler. A new edition, revised, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920, 280 p.
Adamnan's De locis sanctis, edited by Denis Meehan, Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Scriptores Latini Hiberniae, 3), 1958, 154 p. + [3] p. de pl.
Adomnan's Life of Columba, edited with translation and notes by the Late Alan Orr Anderson and by Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, London, Edimburgh et Paris, Nelson, 1963, xxiv + 590 p. + [4] p. de pl.
Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, ex codice olim Salmanticensi nunc Bruxellensi, edited by W. W. Heist, Bruxelles, Société des Bollandistes (Subsidia hagiographica, 28), 1965, lii + 436 p.
Picard, Jean-Michel, Adomnan, Vie de saint Columba, livre premier, thèse de doctorat, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, 1981, 3 t., xxvi + 512 + 363 p.
Adomnán's Life of Columba, edited and translated by the late Alan Orr Anderson and by Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson; revised by Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, Oxford, Clarendon Press (Oxford Medieval Texts), 1991, lxxx + 263 p. + 4 p. de pl. — Réimpr.: 1998.
Adomnano di Iona, I luoghi santi, introduzione, traduzione e commento a cura di Maria Guagnano, Bari, Edipuglia (Quaderni di invigilata lucernis, 34), 2008, 279 p. + 4 p. de pl.

Traductions modernes

en allemand:
- Adamnan, Das Leben des heiligen Columba von Iona = Vita S. Columbae, eingeleitet, übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Theodor Klüppel, Stuttgart, Hiersemann (Bibliothek der mittellateinischen Literatur, 8), 2010, v + 190 p.
en anglais:
- Ancient Lives of Scottish Saints, translated by W. M. Metcalfe, Paisley, Gardner, 1895, xxiii + 373 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
- The Pilgrimage of Arculfus in the Holy Land, translated and annotated by James Rose Macpherson, London, Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 10), 1889, xx + 91 p.
- Anderson 1963 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Anderson 1991 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Adomnán of Iona, Life of St Columba, translated by Richard Sharpe, Harmondsworth et New York, Penguin Books (Penguin Classics), 1995, 406 p.
- The Life of Columba by Adamnan; an abridged translation by John Gregory, Edinburgh, Floris, 1999, 63 p.
en français:
- Les lieux saints, en trois parties, d'après le récit d'Arculfe, prélat de Gaule (690) par saint Adamnan, abbé d'Hey, précédé de l'Itinéraire en Terre Sainte du Pélerin de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Delmas, 1891, 92 p.
en italien:
- Guagnano 2008 (voir sous Éditions modernes)

Études

Baudry, Robert, « Les premiers pas d'Arthur ou: Dossier Arthur », Histoire et roman. Actes du colloque de Lille 3 (1^er-3 octobre 2002), éd. Catherine Croizy-Naquet et Philippe Logié, Bien dire et bien aprandre, 22, 2004, p. 193-206. DOI: 10.54563/bdba.1629
Bieler, Ludwig, Ireland and the Culture of Early Medieval Europe, éd. Richard Sharpe, London, Variorum Reprints (Collected Studies Series, 263), 1987, xii + 322 p.
Borsje, Jacqueline, « The monster in the river Ness in Vita sancti Columbae: a study of a miracle », Peritia, 8, 1994, p. 27-34. DOI: 10.1484/j.peri.3.202
Enright, Michael J., Prophecy and Kingship in Adomnán's "Life of Saint Columba", Dublin et Portland, Four Courts Press, 2013, 202 p.
Herbert, Máire, Jona, Kells, and Derry: the History and Hagiography of the Monastic Familia of Columba, Oxford, 1988.
Picard, Jean-Michel, « The purpose of Adomnán's Vita Columbae », Peritia, 1, 1982, p. 160-177.
Picard, Jean-Michel, « The Schaffhausen Adomnán—a unique witness to Hiberno-Latin », Peritia, 1, 1982, p. 216-249.
Picard, Jean-Michel, « Adomnan's Vita Columbae and the cult of Colum Cille in continental Europe », Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, 98:1, 1998.
Thomas, Charles, « The "monster" episode in Adomnan's Life of St. Columba », Cryptozoology, 7, 1988, p. 38-45.
Thrall, William Flint, « Clerical sea pilgrimages and the Imrama », The Manly Anniversary Studies in Language and Literature, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1923, p. 276-283. [GB] [HT] [IA]
Réimpression:
- The Manly Anniversary Studies in Language and Literature, Freeport, Books for Libraries Press, 1968, x + 432 p. [IA]
Woods, David, « Adomnán on St Columba as imitator of Christ », The Mystery of Christ in the Fathers of the Church: Essays in Honour of D. Vincent Twomey SVD, éd. Janet E. Rutherford et David Woods, Dublin et Portland, Four Courts Press, 2012, p. 135-150.

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