The Bollandist edition in the Acta Sanctorum

Confessio and Epistola in the 1668 Bollandist edition in the Acta Sanctorum by Daniel Papebroch, based on a MS from Arras (BM 450) at a time when the two folios that are missing today were still present: De Sancto Patricio Episcopo Apostolo et Primate Hiberniae. Acta Sanctorum, Martii II (1668), pp. 517-592, Confessio & Epistola pp. 533-544(cf. bibliography):

"Confessio ... Quam ex vetustissimo Nobiliacensis S. Vedasti monasterij codice eruit Andreas Denis, Atrebas, e Societate Iesv."

Cf Bieler I 9 (with fn. 12): "Two leaves of this MS testimony are now missing, but were still in place when a copy was taken from this codex by A. Denis that served as the base text for Papebroch's edition, and thus serving now as a primary source for the missing passages" (in Bieler's apparatus criticus sigla 'v' instead of 'V') "even though it has to be accepted with reserve."

Images created from a copy of the Royal Irish Academy Library by ISOS - Irish Script On Screen, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS).

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(An electronic text version available at Acta Sanctorum online.)

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