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Epscop do Gáedelaib dochoid do Róim ‘A bishop of the Gaels went to Rome’

  • Middle Irish
  • prose
Title
Epscop do Gáedelaib dochoid do Róim
‘A bishop of the Gaels went to Rome’
Not so much a title as the first part of the opening words.
Speaker/Addressee
According to Elizabeth Boyle, the Book of Leinster version is Middle Irish.
Manuscripts
LL =
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]
pp. 281b–282a
beg. ‘EPscop do Gaedelaib dochoid do Róim’
LB =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 (1230) = Leabhar Breac (‘Speckled Book’) [s. xvin]
p. 260a.50 ff
rubric: ‘A marrath fil forsin ernaigthi is ed tuicter triasin scel sa’
beg. ‘Epscop uasal do Goedelu do choid do Boim’
Slightly longer, modernised version.
Language
  • Middle Irish
  • According to Boyle (below), the Book of Leinster version “should perhaps be placed ... into the Middle Irish period: we might date it (very tentatively) to the tenth or eleventh century, though no later than that”, whereas the Leabhar Breac version represents a later reworking of the text exhibiting a degree of modernisation, with features of Early Modern Irish.
Form
prose (primary)

Classification


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Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] [tr.] Boyle, Elizabeth, “Lay morality, clerical immorality, and pilgrimage in tenth-century Ireland: Cethrur macclérech and Epscop do Gáedelaib”, Studia Hibernica 39 (2013): 9–48.
Editions of the texts in LL and LB, with English translation (of the LL text), discussion, commentary and summary of the tale.
[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967. xv + pp. 1119-1325.
CELT – pp. 1119-1192 and 1202-1325: <link>
Diplomatic edition of the text in LL.
[ed.] Dottin, Georges, Manuel d’irlandais moyen, 2 vols, vol. 2, Paris, 1913.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
132–134 [id. 29. ‘La faute de l’évêque’] Edited from LB.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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July 2023
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