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Patricius an seinen ausgefallenen Zahn

verse beg. A fhir há / focus mennatan i mbá

• Irish
• verse

Irish religious poem (between 3 and 5 qq). In at least two witnesses, it is attributed to Saint Patrick in the context of an anecdote about his loss of a tooth.

First words (verse)

• A fhir há / focus mennatan i mbá

Author

Ascribed to: Saint PatrickSaint Patrick
(fl. 5th century)
St Patrick
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Manuscripts

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

  p. 353dheading: ‘Oenfhiacal immorro la Patric [...] ut Patricius dixit’beginning: ‘A fhir á / facus mennutan i m-bá’

  3 qq, here followed by a quatrain (of a new poem?) beg. Saegul Mo Chaemóc Leith, after which the MS becomes illegible. In line with his reading in Rawl. B 512 (below), Stokes gives macnutan rather than mennutan.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 I, (a) ff. 101-122, (b) ff. 1-36, (c) ff. 45-52 [s. xv/xvi]

  f. 16vbheading: ‘Is annsin rogab Patraic inrand’beginning: ‘A fhir há / ocus mennutan immbá’ context: Bethu Phátraic

  Note that Stokes expands the m with suspension stroke as macc rather than men.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610 ff. 1–58 and ff. 73–122 = Leabhar na Rátha [1453–1454]

  f. 74ra.19–30beginning: ‘A fhir há / focus mennatan i mbá’

  Version without narrative context or attribution to Patrick.

See also results from manuscript descriptions

Language

• Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Number of stanzas

5 qq.

Classification

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Ó Riain, Pádraig [ed.], Corpus genealogiarum sanctorum Hiberniae, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1985.

2 Book of Leinster version.

[dipl. ed.] OʼSullivan, Anne [ed.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983. xv + pp. 1327-1708.

CELT – pp. 1327–1595 (excl. pp. 1596–1708): <link>

1584–1585 Book of Leinster version.

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Patricius an seinen ausgefallenen Zahn”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 10 (1915): 41.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Version in the Laud MS.

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], The tripartite Life of Patrick: with other documents relating to that saint, 2 vols, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, 89, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1887.

Internet Archive – part 1 (ends on p. 227): <link>, <link> Internet Archive – part 2: <link> CELT – Liber angeli from the Book of Armagh: <link>

140–141 Edition and English translation of the version in Rawl. B 512, with the text from LL given in a footnote.

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