Collectio canonum Hibernensis

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Collectio canonum Hibernensis (English: Irish collection of Canon law) is an Irish ecclesiastical work written in Latin before 725. It is the work of two Irish scholors working in 8th century Europe, Cú Chuimne of Iona (d. 747) and Ruben of Dairinis (d.725). Its title reflects its origin as a compilation of over two hundred years worth of canon law and synodal decrees. Cú Chuimne and Rubin displayed their profound knowledge and learning with the wide number of sources and texts they used for their book, all dating from the centuries prior to 725. They include

• eccleiastical histories
• a definition by Virgil Maro Grammaticus
• a compusticial tract by Pseudo-Theophilus
• spurious 'Acts' of the council of Caesarea
• several quotes from all but one of the works of Isidore of Seville
• so-called dicta of Saint Patrick.

[edit] Sources

• "Hiberno-Latin Literature to 1169", Dáibhí Ó Crónín, "A New History of Ireland", volume one, 2005.
• Die irische Kanonensammlung, ed. Hermann Wasserschleben, Leipzig, 1885.
• Some seventh-century Hiberno-Latin texts and their relationships, Aidan Breen, Peritia, iii, pp. 204-14, 1984.