Download or read book The Altus of St. Columba (Classic Reprint) written by John Marquess of Bute and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Altus of St. Columba The work in which the editor is often engaged has suggested to him that there may be many persons who will hail with pleasure a new and handy edition of the Altus of St. Columba, as well from veneration for the memory of the author, as from appreciation of the intrinsic merits of the work and of its interest as a specimen of the antient Celtic Latin poetry. What follows does not pretend to offer a critical text, as the object is to call attention to the great hymn itself, rather than to the minor peculiarities of its form. The spelling is therefore given in its ordinary shape, and one or two corrections have been made of what seem to be simply copyists' blunders. Some conjectural emendations are suggested in the notes. The text has been taken from the (unhappily uncompleted) edition of the Liber Hymnorum, prepared for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, by the late Dr. Todd, who includes in his notes a reprint of Colgan's edition of the Capitula now missing in the Codex he used; and the information and observations contained in his notes have been freely used in preparing the present edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."