Columbanus, Sermones/Instructiones
  • Columbanus, Sermo 1-13, (CPL 1107)
  • Columbanus, Sermo 14 = Epistola 6 (CPL 1111)
  • Ps.-Columbanus, Sermo 15 = Exhortatoria S. Columbani in conventu ad fratres (CPL 996)
  • Ps.-Columbanus, Sermo 16-17 De octo principalibus vitiis / De homine misero
  • Ps.-Columbanus, Sermo 18, see Eucherius, Sermo ad monachos (CPL 1119)
 
Edition/Translation:
  • G.S.M. Waler, Columbanus, Opera, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 1957, pp. 60-121 (Sermones); pp. 206-208 (Exhortatio); pp. 208-210 (De homine misero); pp. 201-212 (De octo vitiis principalibus.
  • Patrologia Latina, vol. 80, col. 229-260.
  • Online on CELT.
Incipits:

Sermo 1: De fide
Instructionis valde necessariae curam gerens
Sermo 2:
Divinae profunditatis magnitudo emenso
Sermo 3: Qualiter monachus Deo placere debet
Quid in mundo optimum est?
Sermo 4:
Omnis disciplina, iuxta apostolum, in praesenti videtur
Sermo 5
O tu vita humana, fragilis et mortalis
Semo 6
Donate Domino de humana vita
Sermo 7
O te caecam insaniam
Sermo 8
Ecce nunc de fine viae dicendum est
Sermo 9
Adhuc de fine dicamus, fratres carissimi
Sermo 10
Multum nobis de fine, fratres carissimi, timorem
Sermo 11 De disciplina
Moyses in lege scripsit, Fecti Deus hominem
Sermo 12 De compunctione
Compunctionis necessariae insinuationem
Sermo 13
Cottidianae experientiae ratiocinationibus humanae
Sermo 14 = Epistola 6
Cum iam de moribus moralibusque
Exhortatoria S. Columbani (Sermo 15):
In Ecclesia Dei, fratres mei, summum locum per Dei misericordiam
De homine misero (Sermo 16):
Cogita non quid es, miser homo
De octo vitiis (Sermo 17):
Octo sunt vitia principalia, quae mergunt hominem
Sermo 18 = Eucherius, Sermo ad monachos
Instruit nos atque hortatur
    
Manuscripts:

Complete Collection




St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 1349 s. XVII

complete collection / De octo vitiis
Ms. M; not yet on CESG
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale G.V. 38
s. IX-X
fol. 90v-125
complete collection / De octo vitiis Ms. T
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale G. VII. 16
s. IX2
fol. 13v-59
complete collection / De octo vitiis Ms. Ti
Sermo 3/11/De homine misero/
De octo vitiis




Paris, BN lat. 17188
s. XVII
pp. 153-159
Sermo 3 and 11 / De homine misero / De octo vitiis Ms. D
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Reg. lat. 140
s. IX
fol. 78-82
Sermo 3 and 11 / De homine misero / De octo vitiis Ms. R
Sermo 5 only




Admont, Stiftsbibliothek 331
s. XII
fol. 43-
Sermo 5 (as Ep. S. Columbani)

Bamberg, Universitätsbibliothek Lit. 143 (olim B VI 15) s. XII
fol. 63v-64v
Sermo 5
Ms. lambda; image
Budapest, Universty Library 72 s. XV

Sermo 5

Göttweig, Stiftsbibliothek 112 (57)
s. XII
fol. 43v-
Sermo 5 (as Ep. S. Columbani)

Graz, Universitätsbibliothk 480
s. XII
fol. 45v-46
Sermo 5 (as Ep. S. Columbani)

Klosterneuburg, Stifsbiblitohek 570
s. XV
fol. 89=89v
Sermo 5 (as Ep. S. Columbani)

Klosterneuburg, Stiftsbibliothek 587
s. XII
fol. 62v-63v
Sermo 5 (as Ep. S. Columbani)

Lambach, Stiftsbiblitothek 31
s. IX
fol. 110-111
Sermo 5 (as Ep. S. Columbani)

Lilienfeld, Stiftsbibliothek 113
s. XV
fol. 121v
Sermo 5
Hill Monastic Library;
Kleinmariazell
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 6330
s IXin
fol. 48-49
Sermo 5

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 14949 (Em. w. 6)
s. XV
fol. 16-17
Sermo 5
Ms. E
Paris, BN lat. 13340 s. XVIII
fol. 97-100
Sermo 5 (as Ep. S. Columbani)
Ms. H
Salzburg, Stiftsbibliothek St.-Peter b.IX.20 s. XV
fol 6-6v
Sermo 5
Ms. sigma;
Hill Monastic Library
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 141 s. X

Sermo 5
not verified,
probably error
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 915
s. X
pp. 167-169
Sermo 5
Ms. G; image on CESG
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 927
s. XV

Sermo 5
not yet on CESG,
check
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 1347
s. XVII

Sermo 5
not yet on CESG, check
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek 1550
s. XII
fol. 85v-86v
Sermo 5 (as Ep. S. Columbani)

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek 3878
s. XV
fol. 178-178v Sermo 5 (as E. S. Columbani)
Hill Monastic Library
Zurich, Zentralbibliothek Rh hist. 28
s. IX
fol. 109v-111
Sermo 5 (as Ep. S. Columbani)
Ms. K;
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