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Comanmand nóebúag hÉrenn

• Early Irish
• list, prose
• Irish hagiography

Early Irish tract containing lists of female Irish saints (nóebúag ‘holy virgins’) of the same name. In the manuscripts, the text immediately follows that of a similar tract known as Comainmnigud nóem nÉrenn.

Author

Anonymous.

Manuscripts

Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 3 = Detached folios from the Book of Leinster [s. xii]

f. 368[14]g39 ff

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502 2, ff. 19–89 = Lebar Glinne Dá Locha (?) [1125 x 1150]

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]

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London, British Library, MS Additional 30512 = Leabhar Uí Maolconaire [s. xv-xvi]

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1285 (H 1. 11) [1752]

Copy from London, British Library, MS Additional 30512.

See also results from manuscript descriptions

Language

• Early Irish

Form

list, prose (primary)

Textual relationships

Related: Comainmnigud nóem nÉrennComainmnigud nóem nÉrenn

Early Irish tract containing lists of Irish saints of the same name. Most copies of the text are followed by a similar tract focusing on female Irish ‘holy virgins’ (Comanmand nóebúag hÉrenn).

Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Subjects

saints of IrelandIreland and Irish history, Irish people, saints
saints of Ireland

id. 27585

saints of IrelandIreland and Irish history, Irish people, saints
saints of Ireland

id. 27585

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.] Brosnan, Denis T., “Comainmnigud noem Herend so sis”, Archivium Hibernicum 1 (1912): 314–365.

353–360

Secondary sources (select)

Plummer, Charles, “A tentative catalogue of Irish hagiography”, in: Charles Plummer, Miscellanea hagiographica Hibernica: vitae adhuc ineditae sanctorum Mac Creiche, Naile, Cranat, 15, Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1925. 171–285.

Utrecht University Library: <link>  : View in Mirador

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web page identifiers

page name: Comanmand nóebúag hÉrenn

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Contributors

C. A., Dennis Groenewegen

Page created

April 2016, last updated: January 2024