As forsake of an article entitled ‘Hibernia Christiana’ published in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record of 1895, Fr Brendan MacCarthy gave this advantageous brief of sources:EARLY AND MEDIAEVAL LATIN LITERATURE OF THE IRISH CHURCH1. CONCILIAR most of all: (a) Synodal Decrees of St. Patrick ; (b) Collectio Canonum Hibernensis; (c) Sermo Synodalis in Speckled Book. LITURGICAL most of all: (a) Stowe Missal ; (6) Corpus Missal ; (c) Stowe Sacramentary; (d) Fragments in Books of Dimma and Mulling ; (e) Antiphonary of Bangor ; (f) Cursus Scottorum. 2.
3. Cyril ; (5) Tractate of St. PASCHAL most of all: (a] Easter Tables of Roman-Irish Cycle of 84, of Victorian and Dionysian (Alexandrine) Cycles ; (b) Spurious Paschal writings: (1) Book of Anatolius ; (2) Acts of Council of Caesarea most of all: (3) Prologue and (4) Letter of St. Athanasius ; (c) Paschal Epistle of Cummian. SCRIPTURAL most of all: (a) Tract of St.
4. Caimin, of Inisceltra, on Ps. Columbanus on the Psalms ; (c) Mystical Interpretations of St. cxviii.; (b) Commentary of St.
Aileran ; (d) Commentary on Wurzburg St. 5. Matthew ; (e) Sedulius on Pauline Epistles, on Breviates and Chapters of, and Hieronymian Prefaces to, the Evangelists ; Paschal Prose of same; (f) Claudius on the Pauline Epistles; (g) De mirabilibus Sacrae Scripturae ; (h) prime and minute books of Chronicle of Marianus Scotus. HYMNAL: (a) Hymns in Book of Hymns; (b) in Mone’s Hymni Latini Medii Aevi, (c) Poems of St. 6.
Columbanus ; (d) Carmen Paschale of Sedulius. MORAL most of all: (a) Penitentials ; (b) Instructions of St. 7. Columbanus.
HAGIOGRAPHIC most of all: (a) Tripartite Catalogue of Saints ; (b) Martyrology of Tallaght ; (c) Patrician Documents most of all: (1) Tripartite Life (from the Irish) ; (2) Collections in Book of Armagh; (d) Adamnan most of all: (1) Life of St. Columba; (2) De Locis Sanctis ; (e) Lives of Saints in Codex Kilkenniensis and other MSS.