Texts

Dígal fola Críst ‘Revenge for Christ's blood’

Irish religious texts

A "historical piece ... which is founded partly on Josephus' account of the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, and corresponds with the mediaeval French Vengeance du Sauveur" (Stokes).⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Whitley Stokes, Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore (1890): vi.

Manuscripts

include:⁽²⁾^{n. 2} Whitley Stokes, Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore (1890): vi–vii.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610 ff. 1–58 and ff. 73–122 = Leabhar na Rátha [1453–1454]

ff. 18va–22vb

Complete

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

pp. 150b (line 54)–157b (line 29).

Complete

Cork, University College, Book of Lismore = Book of Lismore (Leabhar Leasa Móir) [s. xv]

ff. 41ra–41vb

Fragment corresponding to Leabhar Breac, pp. 156a (line 62)–157b (line 29).

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29 pp. 17-216 = Book of Fermoy ‘proper’ [s. xiv/xv]

ff. 44r–48r pp. 57–65

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS celtique 1 V/VII, ff. 30-57 + 74-117 [s. xv?]

f. 90rb

London, British Library, MS Egerton 91 [s. xv]

f. 63vb

Imperfect

Classification

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Sources

Notes

^1.

Whitley Stokes, Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore (1890): vi.

^2.

Whitley Stokes, Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore (1890): vi–vii.

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Edition wanted

As announced in Apocrypha, an edition by Pierre-Yves Lambert is forthcoming.

Translation wanted

No translation known at this stage

Secondary sources (select)

Lambert, Pierre-Yves, “La compilation irlandaise de la ‘Vengeance du sang du Christ’ (Dígail fola Críst). État des recherches”, Apocrypha: International Journal of Apocryphal Literatures 15 (2004): 235–258.

Flower, Robin, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 2, London: British Museum, 1926.

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Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890.