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Genemain Moling ocus a bethu
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Vernacular Irish Life of St Mo Ling. The text is a patchwork (in the neutral sense of the word) of various legends about the saint, including his birth and upbringing, encounters with a spectre, with Suibne Geilt and Grág, and the Bórama tribute.

Independent, Cath Cairnd Chonaill, Foras feasa ar Éirinn, Acta sanctorum Hiberniae
Guaire Aidne, Cumméne Fota and Caimín of Inis Celtra
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Gwyrthyeu Seint Edmund archescop Keint
prose
Middle Welsh version of the miracles of St Edmund of Canterbury.
Hystoria gweryddon yr Almaen
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Pennant (Huw) [Syr]
Pennant (Huw) ... Syr
(fl. 15th century (second half)–1514)
Welsh poet; scribe of Peniarth MS 182.

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Middle Welsh adaptation of the legend of St Ursula and the 11,000 virgins. The text was written by Syr Huw Pennant, as the colophon at the end of the text states, and survives, in his own hand, in Peniarth MS 182.
Imthechta Rícinde ingine Crimthainn ocus Cairche Dergáin
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Short narrative about two pious women, Rícenn, daughter of the king of Uí Maine, and her tutoress Caírech Dergáin, nun at Clúain Bairenn.
Irish Life of Catherine of Alexandria
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Ó Gilláin (Enóg)Ó Gilláin (Enóg)
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Irish Life of St Catherine of Alexandria.
Irish Life of Mo Chóemóc of Leigh
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Irish translation of the Latin vita of St Mo Chóemóc, abbot of Liath Mo Chóemóc (Leamakevoge or Leigh, Co. Tipperary).

Irish list of Patrick's household
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An Irish list of members of St Patrick’s household, possibly compiled during the abbacy of Joseph, bishop-abbot of Armagh (ob. 936).

Irish story of Albert of Germany
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Brief Irish devotional story concerning a certain Albert (Ailibertus, Aliberd), bishop in Germany, who made Christ reveal to him the seven, or eight, things that are best for the soul and most pleasing to God as well as a rule consisting of 15 Our Fathers. Grosjean, with the help of suggestions made to him, has identified the story as a version on the theme of Christ’s nine answers, variants of which circulated widely throughout Europe, both in Latin and in the vernacular, in the 14th and 15th centuries and sometimes appear with an attribution to Albert(us)/Albrecht.

Irish treatise on the twelve apostles (genealogy, appearance, death)
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An Irish treatise on the Twelve Apostles, their genealogies, their personal appearances (chiefly hair and beards), their deaths and their burial places.
Le voyage de saint Brendan (Benedeit)
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Benedeit
Benedeit
(fl. 12th century)
Anglo-Norman poet and author of a versified adaptation of the Navigatio sancti Brendani, which he dedicated to Aaliz, identifiable with Henry I’s second wife Adeliza of Louvain (or according to another MS, to Mahalt la reine, who is identifiable with Henry’s first wife, Edith Matilda).

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Legendarium Bodecense
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A late medieval legendary written at the monastery of Böddeken (Kreis Paderborn). It is thought to have been a substantial collection, spanning twelve volumes for each month of the year, although little of it survives today. Those for February, June, August and November appear to have been lost when Bollandist scholar H. Moretus produced his catalogue description (1908). Those for December and a part of March were later found together in a manuscript at Paderborn. Most of the volumes which Moretus was able to consult were held in Münster, but they were destroyed by fire in 1945, leaving the Paderborn MS (March, December) and a manuscript (October), together with a single leaf (June), in Schloss Erpernburg as the last physical remains of the collection.

Letter from Ermenrich of Ellwangen to Grimald
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Ermenrich of EllwangenErmenrich of Ellwangen
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A letter written c.850x854 by Ermenrich, monk of Ellwangen (later bishop of Passau), to Grimald, who was abbot of St. Gall and Weissenburg as well as archchaplain of Louis the German. Ermenrich devotes a section to the Life of St Gall and notes that he would have completed a metrical version had someone else not beaten him to it. The letter survives because Grimald had it included in a manuscript compiled for his use.

Liber de virtutibus sancti Columbae (Cumméne)
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Cumméne FindCumméne Find
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List of Irish saints (Colum Cille o Dhoire)
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A catalogue of roughly 150 saints of Ireland, whose selection may ultimately derive from the Martyrology of Donegal. It is extant in two versions, both of which may be linked to members of the Ó Cléirigh family: as a set of glosses to Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh’s version of the versified list of Irish saints beg. Náemhshenchas náemh Insi Fáil; and as a list found at the end of Rawl. B 484, which may be in the hand of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh.

List of Irish saints and places
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list
A catalogue of Irish saints and the places associated with them. It is attested on page 353 of the Book of Leinster and includes a poem (6 qq) beg. Nonbur Síl Chonaire.
Dinnshenchas Érenn C supplement
Dinnshenchas of Mag nÚra
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Prose text on the dinnshenchas of Mag nÚra. It offers a version of an anecdote in Bruiden Da Choca (§ 28 in Stokes’ edition, p. 163), distinguishing between three successive names for the plain. The two earlier names, Mag nDerg and Mag nÚatha, are associated with events from the Ulster Cycle, while the main narrative focuses on St Colum Cille, who is said to have composed a hymn in memory of Ciarán (patron of Clonmacnoise) in return for trí mámanna do úraibh Cíaráin '‘three handfuls of Ciarán’s earth’. Colum Cille went to Mag nÚatha, where he scattered the earth and expelled many demons there, hence it was called Mag nÚra after this.

Míorbuile Senáin
prose
Text on the miracles of St Senán of Inis Cathaig (Scattery Island)
Miracula sancti Davidis (BL MS Royal 13 C i)
prose
A collection of eleven accounts of miracles attributed to St David of Wales and set in a period between the 13th century and beginning of the 15th. It is uniquely found as an appendix to a copy of Gerald of Wales’s account of the life and miracles of the saint in BL MS Royal 13 C i.
Mo Chutu and the Devil in Rathan
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Short anecdotal story about Mo Chutu of Rathan, telling how the Devil gained access to Rathan.
Mo Chutu, Comgall and the Devil
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Short anecdotal story about St Mo Chutu of Rathan, telling how the Devil caused him to go on pilgrimage.
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