Biographia Britannica Literaria; Or, Biography of Literary Characters of Great Britain And Ireland, Arranged in Chronological Order
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t See before, p. 130 of the present volume. 142 ST. COLUMBANUS. \_Siwth Cent. Norfolk, printed a new edition in an 8vo. volume, in which the text, a literal copy of the Vatican manuscript, was accompanied with an English translation, and with many diffuse and often unnecessary notes. A very use- ful edition has been more recently published by the Historical Society, edited by Mr. Joseph Stevenson, with extensive collations of different manuscripts. Editions of Nennius. In the collections by Gal...e and Bertram ; see the table of editions of Gildas, p. 134. The " Historia Brittonum," commonly attributed to Nennius ; from a manu- script lately discovered in the Library of the Vatican Palace, at Rome ; edited in the tenth century, by Mark the Hermit ; with an English version, &c. By the Rev. W. Gunn, B.D. 8vo. Loud. 1819. Nennii Historia Britonum. Ad fidem Codicum Manuscriptorum recensuit Josephus Stevenson. 8vo. Lond. 1838. (By the Historical Society.) ST. COLUMBANUS. During the period in which the light of science seems to have been dim in Britain, the sister island sent forth a great man, some of whose writings were afterwards in repute among the Anglo-Saxons, and of whom our information is much more authentic, because the scene of his labours lay principally in France and Italy.
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