Texts

Fiarfaidhi San Anselmuis

Early Modern Irish
prose
Medieval Irish literary adaptations, Irish religious texts

Irish version of the Dialogus de passione Christi... (wrongly) attributed to St Anselm, who is presented as conversing with the Virgin Mary on the passion of Christ. The translation and adaptation are believed to have been undertaken by Seán O Conchubhair.

Title

Fiarfaidhi San Anselmuis

Fiarfaidhi San Anselmuis, with Sansalmus restored to San Anselmuis, is the title favoured by Skerrett in his edition of the text.

Author

Ascribed to: Ua Conchubhair (Seán) [translator]

Ua Conchubhair (Seán) ... translator

(d. 1391?)

Seán Ua/Ó Conchubhair, Irish scholar, or possibly scholars of the same name, credited with the translation into Irish of the Dialogus de passione Christi attributed to St Anselm and the Liber de passione Christi attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. AFM s.a. 1391 records the killing of one Seaan mac Mathgamhna Uí Choncobhair. Their names may but need not refer to the same person.

Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48b (476) = Liber Flavus Fergusiorum, part 2 [c. 1435-1440]

ff. 6[7]va–9[10]va

rubric: ‘Pais Sansalmus ata annso’

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

f. 15ra1–18rb46

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.1 (1) = 1467 manuscript [c. 1467]

ff. 4v(8)a1–7r(13)a

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.25 [s. xv-xvi]

f. 3r1

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1319 pp. 90-110 [s. xv]

pp. 99–110

Incomplete

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1363 16, pp. 213-244 [c. 1700]

pp. 232–244

Ends imperfect

London, British Library, MS Egerton 136

Part of the prologue only

Language

Early Modern Irish

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

(Possible) sources: Dialogus de passione ChristiDialogus de passione ChristiView incoming data

Related: Irish Liber de passione ChristiIrish Liber de passione ChristiIrish version of the Liber de passione Christi et doloribus et planctibus matris eius usually attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. It is in the form of a dialogue between St Bernard and the Virgin Mary about the passion of Christ. The text is anonymous and may have been the work of Irish scholar Seán Ó Conchubhair.

Classification

Medieval Irish literary adaptationsMedieval Irish literary adaptations
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Irish religious textsIrish religious texts
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Subjects

The PassionThe Passion
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Anselm of CanterburyAnselm of Canterbury

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Jesus

(fl. c.5 BC–30/33 AD)

Galileian Jewish religious leader whom Christians believe to be the incarnation of God on earth, the Saviour of mankind and Messiah (the Christ) through His death and resurrection.

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Mary ... mother of Jesus

(s. i BC–i AD)

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