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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Sigla -- Introduction -- 1 A background to the Hibernensis -- 1.1 Authorship -- 1.2 Date of composition -- 1.3 Structure -- 1.4 Sources: general discussion -- 1.5 Sources: the Bible -- 1.6 Sources: Irish synods -- 1.7 The late antique and early medieval canonical background -- 1.8 The Hibernensis and Irish vernacular law -- 1.9 Remarks on Latinity -- 2 Recensions and textual varieties -- 2.1 Distinguishing between the recensions: a formal approach -- 2.2 Different recensions, different sources -- 2.3 The recensions and their Irish sources -- 2.4 Vestiges of a pre-recensional text -- 2.5 An early secondary witness to the undivided text -- 2.6 Postulating an undivided text -- 3 Editing the Hibernensis -- 3.1 The present edition -- 3.2 The main copy -- 3.3 Principles of the present edition -- The main text -- Book, chapter, and other numbers -- Cited sources -- Grammar, orthography, and translation -- Variant readings and emendations -- 4 Manuscripts studied for the present edition -- A Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, 221 (193) -- B Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 3182 -- D Monte Cassino, Archivio e Biblioteca dell'Abbazia, 297 -- H Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42 -- O London, British Library, Cotton Otho E. XIII -- P Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 12021 -- S St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek 243 -- V Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, T. XVIII -- Q Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Mp. th. q. 31 -- Tables -- 1: Texts attributed to Sinodus Hibernensis and Hibernenses -- 2: Sinodus Romana and Romani in Hib.A and Hib.B -- 3: Texts attributed to Patrick -- 4: Irish sources not mentioned in previous tables -- 5: Q and the present edition - a synoptic table -- Editorial conventions -- Text of the Hibernensis.