But the general advances made in the last thirty years in the broader field of Hiberno-Latin studies - arising principally from the pioneerin work of Bernhard Bischoff — have also necessitated a reappraisal of Cummian's Letter as one of the earliest witnesses to the Latin scholarship of the Irish churches. [...] The Letter is dated usually by a combination of internal and external evidence: from the heading of the letter we learn that the addressee is Abbot Segene of lona, who held that office during the years 623-6 5 2.! Bede, in his account of the Irish mission to Northumbria,2 relates how Aidan, bishop of the lona dependency of Lindisfarne during the years 634-651, followed the old Irish custom of calc [...] In support of the choice of 631 as the year of whole-month divergence in Easter dates is the fact that this is also the penultimate year in Mac Carthy's 84-year cycle,14 so that a final decision in the year following (AD 632 = the last year of the 84-year cycle) would have facilitated a changeover in the first year of the new cycle. [...] There can be little doubt that the decision arose out of a comparison of the two cycles for the duration of eighty-four years.15 Likewise, the adoption by the lona community of the "orthodox" Easter reckoning in 715 occurred eighty-four years after its first reception in the southern Irish churches, leading to the events recounted in Cummian's Letter.16 Finally, in favour of 632 as the date for Cu [...] Tipperary).27 The latter connection is streng- thened by the fact that in the Annals of Ulster he is called Do-Becoc Cluana Aird in the notice of his death (AU 690).28 If the genealogy is reliable it would make of Beccan a distant relative of Columba himself and, of course, of Cuimine.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Abbreviations 10
- PART ONE: CUMMIAN’S LETTER DE CONTROVERSIA PASCHALI 12
- Introduction 14
- A. Dating 14
- B. Cummian, Ségéne, Béccán 18
- C. Structure and Purpose of the Letter 26
- D. The Nature of the Controversy 29
- E. Easter Observance in Ireland 33
- F. Pasch — Passion or Resurrection 36
- G. Cummian's Collection of Easter Cycles 40
- H. The Decretum Sinodicum of Cummian's Letter 58
- I. The Manuscript 62
- J. The Edition 65
- Text and Translation 66
- PART TWO: DE RATIONE CONPUTANDI 110
- Introduction 112
- A. The De ratione conputandi 112
- B. The Manuscripts 116
- C. The Edition 120
- D. The Notes and Commentary 122
- Text 124
- Table of New Moons for the 19-Year Cycle 225
- The Roman Calendar 226
- Appendix 1. Other Works Ascribed to Cummian (or Cuimine Fota) 228
- Appendix 2. Biblical Texts and Related Sources 233
- A. Cummian's Letter 233
- B. De ratione conputandi 237
- Bibliography 241
- Index 255
- A 255
- B 257
- C 258
- D 261
- E 262
- F 264
- G 264
- H 265
- I 265
- J 266
- K 267
- L 267
- M 268
- N 269
- O 270
- P 270
- Q 272
- R 272
- S 272
- T 273
- U 274
- V 274
- W 275
- Y 275
- Z 275
