St. Finnian's service

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Can anyone help me find the full text for St. Finnian of Clonard’s service? I’m doing extensive research on him. So far I have found excerpts only.

Catholic Encyclopedia, in the article on the Twelve Apostles of Ireland, gives two excerpts: “Trium virorum millium, sorte fit doctor humilis; verbi his fudit fluvium ut fons emanans rivulis.” and “Regressus in Clonardiam ad cathedram lecturae apponit diligentiam ad studium scripturae.”

James Ussher, in his Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates, gives the following text: “Nativus de Lagenia qui sprevit nomen regium, hic sumpsit infra moenia legendi privilegium. Trium virorum millium, sorte fit doctor humilis; verbi his fudit fluvium ut fons emanans rivulis. En hic rexit in literis viae vicinus regiae; hic se jungebat superis, hic transfertur egregie.”

Given one of the excerpts in Catholic Encyclopedia has an excerpt Ussher doesn’t write, his version must be incomplete. Can anyone find the complete version, in any language at all? Thanks.
 
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The Book of Mulling is available online, but I don’t think that’s what you’re looking for. From memory, I recall that St Finnian’s liturgy is fragmented and cannot be found in full since it wasn’t preserved well, and the Irish weather wasn’t overly kind.

I would highly, highly recommend calling the Diocese of Meath and asking to speak with the archives lady. Nice people.
 
Oh, I see, thanks.

BTW, Douglas Hyde wrote down the same excerpts as Catholic Encyclopedia some years before, but with “opponit” and “reversus” for “apponit” and “regressus”, and describes it as “jingly tune”. It seems to me he may have heard the original hymn, and Catholic Encyclopedia either corrected it against the same text, or just rewrote two words for it to make more sense.
 
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