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Bethu Phátraic / Vita Tripartita S. Patricii‘The Life of Patrick / The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick’

• Old Irish, Latin
• prose
• Irish hagiography

Manuscripts

include:

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 I, (a) ff. 101-122, (b) ff. 1-36, (c) ff. 45-52 [s. xv / s. xvi]

  ff. 5r–30r
  • Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 531 [s. xv / s. xvi]

    ff. 124, 127

    Fragments belonging to Rawl. B 512 originally
• London, British Library, MS Egerton 93 [s. xv (?)]

  ff. 1–18vb

  Corresponds to Stokes's edition at pp. 28–46
• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 17, pp. 503–541

  pp. 520–528
• Three manuscript copies that are now lost were used by John Colgan for the Latin version in his Trias thaumaturga (1647).
• Context: O’Clery’s glossary

  Extracts in O’Clery’s glossary.

Abridged version (homily)

^{(1)n. 1} James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical (1966): 345.

• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 (1230) = Leabhar Breac (‘Speckled Book’) [s. xvⁱⁿ]

  pp. 24–29

  Abridged version.
• Chatsworth (Derbyshire), Book of Lismore = Book of Lismore (Leabhar Leasa Móir) [s. xv]

  ff. 1, 3–7
• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS celtique 1 V/VII, ff. 30-57 + 74-117 [s. xv?]
• Dublin, King's Inns, MS 10 [s. xv]

  ff. 17ra–19vb

  The first page, f. 17r (two columns), is illegible; as leaves are missing, the text breaks off imperfectly.
  • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48a = Liber Flavus Fergusiorum, part 1 [c. 1435-1440]

    part 3rd ff. 29r–30v
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 25 (475) = Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne [s. xvi¹]

  pp. 91–102
• Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 2324-2340 (3410) [1629]

  ff. 13–23
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C iv 3 (1192) [s. xvii]

  p. 233 ff
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 A 15

  pp. 323–355
• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1285 (H 1. 11) [1752]

  ff. 95v–106v

See also results from manuscript descriptions

Language

• Old Irish Latin
• Old Irish and Latin.
  

Form

prose (primary)

verse (secondary)

Textual relationships

• Related:
• Irish glossary from TCD 1337, pp. 623-628
• O’Clery’s glossary
• Pátraicc Macha mártai Gaídil

Classification

Irish hagiography

Subjects

Saint PatrickSaint Patrick
(fl. 5th century)
St Patrick
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Sources

Notes

^1.

James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical (1966): 345.

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.] [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>

[ed.] [tr.] Mulchrone, Kathleen [ed. and tr.], Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick [I. Text and sources], Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1939.

– TITUS version: <link>

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “Betha Phatraic: On the Life of Saint Patrick”, in: Stokes, Whitley, Three Middle-Irish homilies on the Lives of saints Patrick, Brigit and Columba, Calcutta, 1877. 1–47, 138.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Kenney, James F., “Chapter IV: The monastic churches, their founders and traditions: I. The primitive foundations”, in: Kenney, James F., The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies 11, Revised ed. (1929), New York: Octagon, 1966. 288–371.

342–345 [id. 135.]

Mac Neill, Eoin, “The Vita Tripartita of St. Patrick”, Ériu 11 (1932): 1–41.

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December 2011, last updated: January 2021