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Note on Lon Garad

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Brief Irish note on a saint of the Osraige named Lon Garad, or Longarad, nicknamed Cos-fhinn ‘White-Leg’, known as a scholar who was exceptionally learned but also niggardly in keeping his books to himself. It is found in at least three versions of the Commentary of Félire Óengusso, along with one or two quatrains concerning the saint’s death, as well as (semi-)independently, as an item wedged in with other Irish hagiographic material.

Manuscripts
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 (1230) = Leabhar Breac (‘Speckled Book’) [s. xvin]
p. 95
beg. ‘Longarad .i. i Sléib Mairge no a Muig Thuathat huaiscirt [sic] Osraige’
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 II, ff. 53–75 [c. 1500]
beg. ‘Longarad Coisfind ⁊ rl. I Muig Tuathait a tuaiscert Osraigi’
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610 ff. 59–72 and ff. 123–146 = (part of the) Book of the White Earl [c. 1410-1452]
f. 68ra.inf
beg. ‘.i. Longarad coisfhind [...]’
Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 3 = Detached folios from the Book of Leinster [s. xii]
p. 371[17]c.57 ff
beg. ‘Lon Garad Cosfind. i tuasciurt Ossairge’
Shorter version, without mention of Colum Cille.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]
f. 53(109)vb
beg. ‘Lonngarad Coisfhinn a Tuaiscirt Osraide’
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29 pp. 17-216 = Book of Fermoy ‘proper’ [s. xiv/xv]
p. 130b
beg. ‘Longarad Coisfhind a Muig Tuatha’
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Subjects

Colum Cille
Colum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).
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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.

[dipl. ed.] OʼSullivan, Anne [ed.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983. xv + pp. 1327-1708.
CELT – pp. 1327–1595 (excl. pp. 1596–1708): <link>
1690 Diplomatic edition from UCD Franc. A 3.
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Henry Bradshaw Society, 29, London: Harrison, 1905.  
Edition and translation of the Félire Óengusso, with introduction, notes, etc.
CELT – edition (prefaces, prologue, main text and epilogue): <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>, <link>
198–199 Version from Rawl. B 512 (R2), with variants from UCD Franc. A 3 (LL) and Laud (L) in footnotes.
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], On the calendar of Oengus, Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Irish Manuscript Series, 1.1, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1880.  

Stokes' first edition of the Félire Óengusso (the second edition was published in 1905). A new version of the preface was published as in 1883.

Internet Archive: <link>
cxli–cxlii Version from the Leabhar Breac.
[ed.] [tr.] Crosthwaite, John Clarke [ed.], The book of obits and martyrology of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity commonly called Christ Church, Dublin, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1844.
Celtic Digital Initiative – pp. 1-193 only: <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link>, <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>, <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: View in Mirador
lxxi–lxxii Version (probably) from the Leabhar Breac.
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