Texts

Baile Bricín

Incoming data

Early Irish tale in which an angel visits St Bricín(e), abbot of Túaim Dreccon (Tomregan, Co. Cavan), and reveals to him the names of many future churchmen in Ireland.

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1287

No heading. Transcript from Eg. 1782, f. 17r ff

p. 356

MS

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782

f. 17r–f. 19r

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782

ff. 17a–19a

MS

London, British Library, MS Harley 5280

f. 44v–f. 48r

Text

London, British Library, MS Harley 5280

ff. 44b–48a

Sources

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[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Baile Bricín”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 449–457.

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Secondary sources (select)

Murray, Kevin, “Baile in Scáil and Baile Bricín”, Éigse 33 (2002): 49–56.

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.

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