The Schaffhausen Adomnan

Book info: The Schaffhausen Adomnan (Hardcover, 282 pages) – Cork University Press, 2015. Language: English.

This facsimile of a major Irish historical manuscripts reproduces the earliest surviving copy of Adomnan's Vita Columbae, the Life of St Columba, dating from the late seventh century. Columba established one of the greatest Irish monastic and cultural foundations of the Middle Ages on the Island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland, in the 560s.Adomnan's Life of St Columba has been described as perhaps the most sophisticated saint's life to be written in western Europe in the course of the seventh century. It bears witness to the scholarly and spiritual attainments of early Irish Christian culture. The manuscript reprinted in facsimile is one of the foremost achievements of that learned culture and has been preserved in the Stadtbibliothek, Schaffhausen, Switzerland since the eighteenth century. Editorial Reviews About the Author Damian Bracken is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork.

Eric Graff lectures in the College of Liberal Arts, Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio, USA.