Editing Book of Armagh (section)

==Contents==
The manuscript can be divided into three parts:

===Texts relating to St Patrick===
The first part contains important early texts relating to St. Patrick.<ref name="TCDBookArmagh" /> These include two ''Lives'' of St. Patrick, one by [[Muirchu Maccu Machteni]] and one by [[Tírechán]]. Both texts were originally written in the 7th century. The manuscript also includes other miscellaneous works about St. Patrick, including the ''Liber Angueli'' (or the ''Book of the Angel''), in which St. Patrick is given the [[primate (bishop)|primatial]] rights and prerogatives of [[Armagh]] by an [[angel]].<ref name="ArmaghArchdiocese">{{cite web|title=St Patrick|url=http://www.armagharchdiocese.org/stpatrick/|website=Archdiocese of Armagh|access-date=4 October 2017|date=8 November 2007}}</ref> Some of these texts are in Old Irish and are the earliest surviving continuous prose narratives in that language. The only old Irish texts of greater age are fragmentary [[gloss (annotation)|glosses]] found in manuscripts on the continent.

*[[Muirchu moccu Machtheni|Muirchu]], ''Vita sancti Patricii''
*[[Tírechán]], ''Collectanea''
*''notulae'' in Latin and Irish on St. Patrick's acts, and ''additamenta'', charter-like documents later inserted into the manuscript
*''Liber Angeli'' ('The Book of the Angel') (640 x 670), written in Ferdomnach's hand
*[[St. Patrick]], ''Confessio'' in abbreviated form

===New Testament material===
The manuscript also includes significant portions of the [[New Testament]], based on the ''[[Vulgate]]'', but with variations characteristic of insular texts. In addition, prefatory matter including prefaces to Paul's Epistles (most of which are by [[Pelagius]]), the ''[[Canon Tables]]'' of [[Eusebius]], and the [[Letter of Jerome to Pope Damasus]] are included.

===''Life'' of St Martin===
The manuscript closes with the ''Life of St. [[Martin of Tours]]'' by [[Sulpicius Severus]].<ref name="Duffy" />