| LC control no. | no2021043254 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lathcen, -661 |
| Variant(s) | Laidcenn, -661 Laidcenn mac Buith Bannaig, -661 Laidcend mac Baíth Bandaig, -661 Laidgen, -661 |
| Associated country | Ireland |
| Located | Laois (Ireland) |
| Death date | 0661 |
| Affiliation | Clonfert Molua Monastery |
| Profession or occupation | Monks |
| Special note | Data contributed by the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
| Found in | 9466 (online via HMML), viewed on April 12, 2021 (Lathcen; author of Compendium moralium Gregorii Magni; manuscript text in Latin) <https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/9754> Dictionary of Irish biography (online via Royal Irish Academy and Cambridge University Press): "Lathcen (Laidcenn)" (Lathcen (Laidcenn) (d. 661), son of Báeth Bandach, monk of Clonfertmulloe (Co. Laois) and biblical scholar; ca. 595 wrote abbreviated version of Gregory the Great's commentary on Job) <https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do;jsessionid=2967F6754E13518808EA0A388F8D60C0?articleId=a4692&searchClicked=clicked&searchBy=&browsesearch=yes> Biographical index of the middle ages, 2008: part 2, p. 688 (Laidgen (Clonfert Molua); died ca. 660; monk; Scotland) Wikipedia (online), viewed on January 18, 2021: Laidcenn mac Buith Bannaig (also Laidcend mac Baíth Bandaig; died 661; monastic scholar; at Cluain Ferta Mo-Lua (Clonfert-Mulloe, Co. Laois); known for having produced the Ecloga de Moralibus, an epitome of Gregory the Great's Commentary on Job; ascribed author of the earliest surviving example of a lorica or breastplate, a term applied to a genre of charm-prayers) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laidcenn_mac_Buith_Bannaig> Omnium Sanctorum Hiberniae (online), viewed on January 18, 2021: Saint Laidgen of Clonfert-molua, January 12 (Saint Laidgen or Laidcenn was a monastic associated with the foundation of St Lua or Molua at what is now the parish of Kyle or Clonfertmulloe, County Laois) <http://omniumsanctorumhiberniae.blogspot.com/2013/01/saint-laidgen-of-clonfert-molua-january.html> |
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