Editing Columbanus (section)

==Sources==
Most of what we know about Columbanus is based on Columbanus' own works (as far as they have been preserved)<ref name="walker">{{cite book|editor-last=Walker |editor-first=G. S. Murdoch |title=Columbani Opera |publisher=The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies |location=Dublin |year=1957 |isbn=978-1-85500-050-6}}</ref><ref name="lapidge">{{cite book|last=Lapidge |first=Michael |title=Columbanus: Studies on the Latin Writings |year=1997 |publisher=Boydell Press |location=Woodbridge |isbn=978-0-85115-667-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=odZIo0Q6z90C}}</ref> and [[Jonas of Bobbio|Jonas of Susa]]'s ''Vita Columbani'' (''Life of Columbanus''), which was written between 639 and 641.{{#tag:ref|Walker's edition is also available on [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/ CELT] (University College Cork), a website that provides Irish medieval sources with English translations. A critical edition of Jonas's ''Vita Columbani'' was published in 1905 by Bruno Krusch in ''[http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb00000740_meta:titlePage.html?sortIndex=010:070:0037:010:00:00 Monumenta Germaniae Historica]''[http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb00000740_meta:titlePage.html?sortIndex=010:070:0037:010:00:00 , ''Scriptores Rerum Germaincarum'' ''in usum schoarum'', vol. 37, Hannover: Hahn 1905]. See also [http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/columban.asp Internet Medieval Sourcebook].|group=Note}}

Jonas entered Bobbio after Columbanus' death but relied on reports of monks who still knew Columbanus.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Munro |first=Dana C. |title=The Life of St. Columban, by the Monk Jonas, (7th Century) |url=https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columban.asp |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=Internet History Sourcebooks}}</ref> A description of miracles of Columbanus written by an anonymous monk of Bobbio is of much later date.<ref name="ohara">O'Hara, Alexander, and Faye Taylor. "Aristocratic and Monastic Conflict in Tenth-Century Italy: the Case of Bobbio and the ''Miracula Sancti Columbani''" in ''Viator. Medieval and Renaissance Studies''. 44:3 (2013), pp. 43–61.</ref> In the second volume of his ''Acta Sanctorum O.S.B.'', Mabillon gives the life in full, together with an appendix on the miracles of Columbanus, written by an anonymous member of the Bobbio community.<ref name="edmonds"/>