Results gathered for Epistola Christi ad Abgarum
Text, with Irish preface (partly illegible). This version includes an addendum which echoes the first part of the addendum in Royal 2 A xx (... saluus erit; sic scriptum est. Qui credit in me saluus erit, though itself a partial repetition) but as it continues, largely agrees with TCD 1441.
The text is close to that of Rufinus, except for an addendum which is subjoined to suggest that the traveller enjoys protection by carrying a copy on one’s person. Marginal Old English glosses, many of them in the left margin of f. 12v, accompany the text: ... et saluus eris sicut scriptum qui credit in me saluus erit. Siue in domu tua siue in ciuitate tua siue in omni loco nemo inimicorum tuorum dominabitur et insidias diabuli ne timeas et carmina inimicorum tuorum distruuntur. Et omnes inimici tui expellentur a te siue a grandine siue tonitrua non noceberis et ab omni periculo liberaueris, siue in mare siue in terra siue in die siue in nocte siuei n locis obscures. Si quis hanc epistolam secum habuerit secures ambuleti n pace. Amen.. Foll., on f. 13r, by a prayer beg. Deus omnipotens et dominus noster Iesus Christu. Many other texts in this manuscript are in some way concerned with the topic of healing.
