Hisperica Famina

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The Hisperica Famina is a text from the middle of the 7th century from Ireland, which reports on topics of everyday life (daily routine of some monastery students , wooden churches, clothing, hunting, banquet, fighting with robbers), but also a kind of natural history of heaven and the contains four elements. It is written in a form of Latin enriched with Greek, Hebrew and Celtic words (as well as artificial words), Hibernian or Hisperic Latin, which was particularly popular among Irish monks from the 6th to 10th centuries (including Columban of Iona , Adomnan of Iona , Virgilius Maro Grammaticus , Gildas ).

Mostly an Irish origin is assumed, but there are also references to Breton reception (Breton commentaries in various manuscripts).

One manuscript is in the Vatican Library, one in Paris in the National Library, another from the second half of the 9th century is in the National Library of Luxembourg (originally from the Imperial Abbey of Echternach ). The manuscripts indicate different arrangements of the same material. According to Zimmer, these are exercises for students in a monastery, who have been provided with a common Latin glossary and which should deal with the same topics.

expenditure

  • A. Mai, Classici Auctores, Volume 5, Rome 1833 (= Patrologia Latina , Volume 90)
  • JM Stowasser: Incerti auctoris Hisperica famina denuo edidit et explanavit, 13th annual report on the kk Franz Joseph Gymnasium Vienna, 1887 (Vatican text)
  • Michael Herren (Ed.): The Hisperica Famina, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, 2 volumes, 1974, 1987
  • Francis John Henry Jenkinson (Ed.): The Hisperica Famina, Cambridge University Press 1908, Archives

literature

  • FJ Mone: The Gallic language and its usefulness, Karlsruhe 1851 (and Institut de Luxembourg 1896)
  • H. Zimmer: New fragment from Hisperica famina, News Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen 1895
  • FJE Raby: Secular Latin Poetry, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1934
  • M. Roger: L´enseignement des lettres classiques d´Ausone a Alcuin, Paris: Picard 1905
  • RAS Macalister: The secret languages ​​of Ireland, Cambridge University Press 1937
  • Philip W. Damon: The Meaning of the Hisperica Famina, The American Journal of Philology, Volume 74, 1953, pp. 398-406
  • H. Gaidoz, Henry Bradshaw: Mélanges: Le manuscrit luxembourgois des Hisperica famina, Revue Celtique, Volume 11, 1890, 219, Archives
  • P. Grosjean: Confusa Caligo, Celtica, Vol. 3, 1956, pp. 35-85.
  • Andy Orchard: The Hisperica Famina as literature, Journal of Medieval Latin, Volume 10, 2000, pp. 1-45.
  • Louis Lemoine: Note sur les Hisperica famina et la Bretagne, in: Joëlle Quaghebeur, Sylvain Soleil (ed.), Le pouvoir et la foi au Moyen Âge en Bretagne et dans l'Europe de l'Ouest: mélanges en mémoire du professeur Hubert Guillotel, Britannia Monastica 13, 14, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010, pp. 215-224.
  • Michael Winterbottom: On the Hisperica Famina, Celtica, Volume 8, 1968, pp. 126-139.
  • Max Manitius : History of Latin Literature in the Middle Ages, Volume 1, Beck, 1911, p. 156ff