The Irish monk who, in the last quarter of the sixth century, landed in Gaul with a number of companions and founded there in quick succession three monasteries in Annegray, Luxeuil and Fontaines, was then banished from Gaul and reached Northern Italy via Switzerland where he founded in Bobbio his last and most celebrated monastery, is best known by a name which he himself never used: Columbanus. In the five letters of his which have been preserved, he calls himself Columba, 'Dove', and a number of word-plays on the meaning of this name prove that this in fact is what he was called.
Author(s): Johannes Wilhelmus Smit
Publisher: Adolf M. Hakkert
Year: 1971
Language: English
Pages: 276
City: Amsterdam
Abbreviations 1
Bibliography 3
Note on Bible Quotations 21
Introduction 23
PART I. TEXTUAL CRITICISM AND TEXTUAL INTERPRETATION
Introduction 33
Critical Remarks 39
1. Castalitatis 39
2. Contupictam 57
3. Calcalenteris 70
4. Lumina Ingenii 78
5. Scynthenium 81
6. Bubum 88
7. Mihi Nex(u)isse; Irrogas/Irogus 97
8. Chilosum Os 99
9. Heluini/Heulini Litoris 105
io. Licet Mercedem; Credunt Bonis Secretis 110
11. Non a Sola Minax Unda; Octo Molibus 117
12. Lusus Currus 127
13. Trisulcus Arcuato Vulnere Scorpius; Epicroca; Iudicare; Copes, Oliginosis Celotes Palearibus 130
14. Ionas - Peristera - Columba 141
15. Regis... Iussio Agens 160
16. Ascematus Est 161
COLUMBA'S KNOWLEDGE OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE
Introduction 167
Chapter I: Literary Traditions in Columba 172
1. The Turbulent Sea 172
2. The Equitatio Super Undas 190
3. The Remaining Profane Quotations in the Prose 198
Chapter II: Carmina 209
1. Carmen de Mundi Transitu 212
2. Versus ad Hunaldum; ad Sethum 223
3. Carmen Navale 239
4. Versus Fidolio Fratri Suo 242
Final Remarks 250
Indices 254
