Howlett (David Robert)

ad D. Ó Cróinín, in Celtica 16 (1984), pp. 169-174. Comments on Latin poem, Lympha coacta gelu, duris licet aemula saxis, by Donnchadh Ó Cobhthaigh. Cf. D. R. Howlett, in Ériu 44 (1993), pp. 187-188.

On Confessio 9 and the question of Saint Patrick’s education.

Origin and meaning of iduma ‘hand (of Almighty God)' as used in Altus prosator, Hisperica famina, etc. Cf. D. Howlett, in Peritia 9 (1995), pp. 72–80.

ad D. R. Howlett, in Celtica 18 (1986), p. 150. Comments on the structure of a Latin poem (beg. Lympha coacta gelu, duris licet aemula saxis) by Donnchadh Ó Cobhthaigh.

Edition of St. Patrick’s Epistola ad milites Corotici and Confessio. Text based on L. Bieler’s edition (BILL 7980), presented per cola et commata; with English translation.

Rev. by
Aidan Breen, in Éigse 29 (1996), pp. 212-214.
Patrick J. Campbell, in SAM 15/2 (1993), p. 260.
John Higgins, in Peritia 10 (1996), pp. 400-407.
Ann E. Moyer, in Peritia 9 (1995), pp. 408-409.
A. S. Mac Shamhráin, in StH 28 (1994), pp. 186-188.
Marina Smyth, in Arthuriana 6/3 (1996), pp. 77-78.
Jane Stevenson, in Early medieval Europe 4/2 (1995), pp. 225-226.

Argues (vs. A. Breen, in Celtica 21 (1990), pp. 40-50) it is a Hebraism and its original form is idama.

Rev. by
Johan Corthals, in Éigse 30 (1997), pp. 198-201.
Christopher Grocock, in Peritia 12 (1998), pp. 379-389.
Leofranc Holford-Strevens, in Early medieval Europe 6/1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 107-108.
Allan B. E. Hood, in Early medieval Europe 8/2 (Jul., 1999), pp. 283-296.
David Howlett, Response to Dr. Christopher Grocock, in Peritia 13 (1999), pp. 312-314.
François Kerlouégan, in CMCS 35 (Summer, 1998), pp. 81-84
Olivier Szerwiniack, in ÉtC 33 (1997), pp. 312-313.

Analyses the language and style of this Vita (based on MS Additional 34124), arguing in favour of its precedence over Vita II and its authorship by Ailerán of Clonard.

Edites and translates five latin poems contained in a number of medieval MSS, of which four regarded hitherto as Northumbrian are now shown to be Irish.

On the knowledge of Greek in Britain and Ireland before the 9th century.

Xpistus in nostra insula que uocatur Hibernia, edited from TCD E 4. 2, UCD-OFM A 2 and Palatinus latinus 482; with English translation.

From Cambridge, Corpus Christi Library, MS 279; with English translation.

Argues, on the basis of prosodic features similar to those of Old Irish verse, that these poems were composed in Ireland during the 7th century.

pp. 72-82: Hiberno-Latin poetry.

Edition, translation and analysis, based on five MSS ranging from the 9th to the 11th centuries.

In Latin; edited, with analysis and English translation, from BL Cotton Cleopatra A ii.

On the influence of early medieval Spain in the creation of the Irish foundation legend.

Rev. by
James McKee and Helen McKee, in CMCS 51 (Summer, 2006), pp. 83-101.
Thomas O’Loughlin, in Early medieval Europe 14/4 (Nov., 2006), pp. 514-515.

Chap. 6 (pp. 184-196): Inscriptions in Irish [written in Latin script].

A numerical analysis of Scíth mo chrob ón scríbainn, preserved in MS Laud 615 and ascribed to Colum Cille.

A prosodic analysis of Ultan’s hymn (Thes. ii 323-326).

A numerical analysis of Hiberno-Latin texts by Mo-Sinu maccu Min, Mo-Cuoróc maccu Net Sémon, Ultán moccu Conchobuir, Cú Chuimne of Iona, and the polyphonic colophon to Cormac’s Psalter.

Numerical analysis of the Latin colophon in the Stowe Missal (fo. 11r).

In Appendix: The Irish names in Suadbar’s letter, by Colin Ireland [Caunchobrach, Fergus, Dominnach, Suadbar].

Edited text with English translation, variant readings, analysis and commentary.