Texts

Suidiugad cathrach Ierusalem ‘The settling of the city of Jerusalem’

Irish
prose
Irish religious texts

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv^ex/xvⁱⁿ]

cols 867–869

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

f. 40(51)va ff

†

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1781 [c. 1484-1487]

The title Suidhughad Iarusalem given in the list of contents on f. 154 suggests that the manuscript may have contained the text, or one like it. The relevant part of the manuscript is lost, however.

Language

Irish

Form

prose (primary)

Classification

Irish religious textsIrish religious texts
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Subjects

Holy City, New Jerusalemyet to be classified
Holy City, New Jerusalem

id. 27186

Theological concept, or a group of these, referring to an earthly representation of heaven; biblical sources include Revelations 21:1–27, according to which John saw civitatem sanctam, Hierusalem novam; held up as an ideal of ecclesiastical settlement, in part relating to architectural and spatial planning, in a variety of medieval sources, incl. Bede, the Hibernensis, Saltair na rann, etc.