Texts
Irish treatise on the twelve apostles (genealogy, appearance, death)
- Middle Irish
- prose
An Irish treatise on the Twelve Apostles, their genealogies, their personal appearances (chiefly hair and beards), their deaths and their burial places.
First words (prose)
- Petar apstal cetus, do threb Iuda dó
Manuscripts
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 (1230) = Leabhar Breac (‘Speckled Book’) [s. xvin]pp. 180b.inf–181a.mheading: ‘Incipit do bungenelaig na n-apstal ⁊ dia n-oidedaib ⁊ dia n-ecosc ⁊ donalloca in rohadnacit iat imraiter sund’
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 5, cols 217-280 = YBL section [1407]col. 247heading: ‘Incipit do bunadh geinilaigh na n-apsdal ⁊ da n-aighenaib ⁊ dia n-egosc ⁊ dia n-uaisle ⁊ d'ínadhaib a n-aideda ⁊ a n-adnaicthe annso sis’
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48b (476) = Liber Flavus Fergusiorum, part 2 [c. 1435-1440]f. 24(26)vb.mheading: ‘Do bungenelachaib na n-apstal ⁊ da n-aigheadhaibh ⁊ da n-égosc d'fi[...?] a n-uaisle ⁊ da inadaibh í n-adnaicce annso’
Language
- Middle Irish
- Middle Irish?
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Irish note on the twelve apostles (Christus dub dond a folt)Irish note on the twelve apostles (Christus dub dond a folt)Medieval Irish note in prose on the personal appearances, chiefly hair and beards, of Christ and his apostles.
Sources
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Secondary sources (select)
McNamara, Martin, The apocrypha in the Irish Church, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1975.
85 [id. 74B.] On the LB copy.
Plummer, Charles, “A tentative catalogue of Irish hagiography”, in: Charles Plummer [ed.], Miscellanea hagiographica Hibernica: vitae adhuc ineditae sanctorum Mac Creiche, Naile, Cranat, 15, Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1925. 171–285.
Collection: Utrecht University Library: <link>
256–257 [id. 310.]
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Dennis Groenewegen
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May 2023
