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Baile Binnbérlach mac Búain

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Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 

pp. 129–130   

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/3 (pp. 15-58) 

pp. 47a–48a   

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/3 (pp. 15-58) 

p. 47a.13–p. 48a

Text

London, British Library, MS Harley 5280 

ff. 48r–48v  

MS

London, British Library, MS Harley 5280 

f. 48r–f. 48v

MS

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/I (ff. 101-122, 1-36, 45-52) 

‘The story of Baile the Sweet-voiced’, fragment.

f. 122v

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/I (ff. 101-122, 1-36, 45-52) 

Fragment giving the beginning of the text.

f. 122v  

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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “Scél Baili Binnbérlaig”, Revue Celtique 13 (1892): 220–227. Corrigenda in Revue Celtique 17 (1896): 319.  

comments: For corrigenda, see Revue Celtique 17 (1896): 319.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link>

Based on Harleian 5280

[ed.] Hull, Vernam [ed.], “The text of Baile Binnbérlach mac Buain from MS 23.N.10 of the Royal Irish Academy”, Journal of Celtic Studies 1 (1950): 94–97.

Based on 23 N 10

[ed.] [tr.] OʼCurry, Eugene, Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history, delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland during the sessions of 1855 and 1856, Dublin, 1861.

Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – Originally from Google Books: <link>, <link>, <link> Internet Archive – multiple copies: <link>

472–475 TCD 1337 version

[tr.] Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín [ed.], “Gormlaith and her sisters, c. 750-1800”, in: Angela Bourke, Siobhán Kilfeather, and Maria Luddy [et al.] (eds), The Field Day anthology of Irish writing, vol. IV: Irish women's writing and traditions, Cork: Cork University Press, 2002. 166–249.

218–219 English translation based on that of O'Curry, with minor alterations.

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Hibernica minora, being a fragment of an Old-Irish treatise on the Psalter, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 8, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894.

Internet Archive: <link> TLH – Erchoitmed ingine Gulidi (ed. and tr.): <link>

84 Fragment from Rawlinson B 512 direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Doran, Michelle, “Textual criticism and Baile Binnbérlach mac Búain”, in: Vincent Gillespie, and Anne Hudson (eds), Probable truth: editing medieval texts from Britain in the twenty-first century, 5, Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. 345–354.

Murray, Kevin, “Some thoughts on Baile Binnbérlach mac Búain”, in: Dan M. Wiley (ed.), Essays on the early Irish king tales, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 84–90.