Instructio Pie Vivendi Et Superna Meditandi – Cuid 1

Cur síos

Instruction in Holy Life and Heavenly Thought. Vol. I, Latin and Irish versions with Glossary of Irish Words

John MacKechnie (foilsithe den chéad uair / first published 1934)

xiv + 230 + 8 pp. ISBN 1 870 16629 9

The manuscript of this work was discovered in the nineteenth century ‘in an inside wall about fourteen inches thick in the Hoar Abbey at Cashel’. The text, edited by John MacKechnie, is a treatise on the monastic life addressed by a spiritual advisor to a nun. It has been described as ‘possibly the dullest of the Society’s publications’!