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Eochair-sciath an aifrinn ‘The key-shield of the Mass’

Geoffrey Keating
  • Early Modern Irish
  • prose
  • Irish texts, Religious treatise
An Irish prose treatise in defence of the Mass, written and completed by Geoffrey Keating in c. 1613.
Author
Keating (Geoffrey)
Keating (Geoffrey)
(c.1580–1644)
Irish priest, historian and poet; author of Foras feasa ar Éirinn
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Manuscripts

includes:

Maynooth, Russell Library, MS B 7 [s. xvii]
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 49
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1353 (H 4. 12) [s. xviii]
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1325 (H 3. 6) [1714]
pp. 64–257
with preface
Language
  • Early Modern Irish
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Irish textsIrish texts
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Religious treatiseReligious treatise
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Subjects

MassMass
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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.] OʼBrien, Patrick, Geoffrey Keating. Eochair-sciath an aifrinn: an explanatory defence of the mass written in Irish early in the seventeenth century, Dublin, 1898.
CELT: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge – edition: <link>
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
June 2013, last updated: January 2024
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