Texts

Coisecrad eclaisi

Incoming data

A catalogue entry is available.

Middle Irish tract on the consecration of a church.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16

rubric: Incipit Coisecrad Eclaisi indso incipit: Líne andso dorigensat hecnaide eolcha

pp. 277a.m–278a.i

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16

rubric: Incipit Coisecrad Eclaisi indso incipit: Líne andso dorigensat hecnaide eolcha

p. 277a.m–p. 278a.i

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.

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, “The Lebar Brecc tractate on the consecration of a church”, in: Miscellanea linguistica in onore di Graziadio Ascoli, Turin, 1901. 363–387.

Internet Archive: <link>

[ed.] [tr.] Olden, Thomas, “On an early Irish tract in the Leabhar Breac, describing the mode of consecrating a church”, Transactions of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society 4 (1897–1898): 98–104, 177–180.

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Carragáin, Tomás, Churches in early medieval Ireland: architecture, ritual and memory, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Series, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2010. xvi + 392 pp + 298 ill..

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