Texts

Cath Finntrága ‘The battle of Ventry’

Early Modern Irish
Finn Cycle

Title

Cath Finntrága

‘The battle of Ventry’

Or in more modern spelling, Cath Fionntrágha.

Manuscripts

One vellum manuscript:

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 487 1, ff. 1–11 [s. xv]

ff. 1ra.1–11ra.20

14 paper manuscripts:

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1296 (H 2. 5) [s. xviii]

p. 243

The earliest paper MS.

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 24 (29) [s. xviii]

pp. 309–384

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 C 15 (377) [s. xviii]

p. 25

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 39 (114) [s. xviii]

pp. 27–71

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 C 26 (765) [s. xviii]

pp. 66–102

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 43 (482) [s. xviii]

pp. 89–107

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 21 (917) [s. xviii-xix]

p. 316

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 9 (527) [s. xix]

p. 53

London, British Library, MS Additional 18946 [s. xix]

f. 139

London, British Library, MS Egerton 149

pp. 109 ff

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 B 15 (191) [s. xix]

pp. 1–57

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 17

pp. 57–110

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 21 (339) [s. xix]

pp. 1–54

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.2.8

pp. 197–237

Language

Early Modern Irish

Classification

Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle

id. 578

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.] [tr.] OʼRahilly, Cecile [ed. and tr.], Cath Finntrágha, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 20, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1962.

CELT – edition (pp. 1–47 with variants from the appendix): <link>

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Cath Finntrága or The Battle of Ventry, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 1.4, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885.

Edition based on Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 487; variants from BL Egerton 149.

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