ABSTRACT

The question of the provenance of the fourteenth-century collection of Latin lives of mainly Irish saints known as Codex Salmanticensis1 has previously been addressed in some detail by William W. Heist,2 more briefly by Richard Sharpe,3 and in passing by myself.4 Heist and Sharpe agreed on a provenance inter Anglos, that is to say an essentially English religious community located in an anglicised part of Ireland. For my part I have advocated a provenance inter Hibernas. Given this direct clash of opinion, the question of the manuscript's provenance clearly merits a full reappraisal. Furthermore, since I draw support for my reading of the evidence from the Register of Clogher, a lost compilation whose character has recently been further illuminated by William O' Sullivan,5 it is appropriate that the question should be reopened in the present volume.