Print Bieler

The Edition by Ludwig Bieler (1950/51)

The 'canonical version' of the reconstructed original Latin text, established by Ludwig Bieler in 1950:

Classica et Mediaevalia 11 (Copenhagen: Librairie Gyldendal, 1950), re-issued by the Irish Manuscripts Comission (Dublin: Stationary Office, 1952) and reprinted by the Royal Irish Academy as Libri Epistolarum Sancti Patricii Episcopi, Clavis Patricii II (Dublin: W. & G. Baird Ltd, Antrim, 1993) including Bieler's 'Addenda' originally published in Analecta Hibernica 23 (1966).

The critical text along with apparatus, commentary and additional notes in an electronic text version as part of the HyperStack, based on the slightly modified plain text version published in Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL).

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The full volume of L. Bieler's edtion as re-published in 1993 including Part I (introduction and critical texts), Part II (commentary) and the Addenda of 1966 as bookmarked PDF [24 MB] [print_bieler.pdf] .

Images created in collaboration with the Hardiman Library, NUI Galway.

Manuscripts

Dublin, Book of Armagh, TCD 52 (‘D’, 9th cent.)
Paris, BnF lat. 17626 (‘P’, 10th cent.)
London, BL Cotton Nero E.1 (‘C’, 10th/11th cent.)
Rouen, BM 1391 (‘R’, 11th cent.)
Salisbury, Cathedral Library 221 (‘G’, 11th/12th cent.)
Salisbury, Cathedral Library 223 (‘F’, 12th cent.)
Arras, BM 450 (‘V’, 12th cent.)
Oxford, Bodleian Rawlinson B 480 (‘O’, 17th cent.)

Print editions

The Edition by Ludwig Bieler (1950/51)

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