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Beatha Chríost

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A lengthy Modern Irish poem (roughly about 4000 lines) on the life and death of Christ.

Manuscript witnesses

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Cork, University College, MS 21 

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Dublin, King's Inns, MS 19 

pp. 189–364   

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Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 231 

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 B 29 

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS A ii 4 

To be verified.

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Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1352 

incipit: Do denamh foirtilliochta soluis glain coidhche   

“proceeds on p12 to the Gospel History.”

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Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1352 

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Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 40 

pp. 79–97   

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Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.2.8 

Fragment. Beginning only.mayn

p. 292  

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London, British Library, MS Egerton 179 

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Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 35 

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Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 110 

The manuscript on which Ní Chróinín based her edition.

Sources

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[ed.] Ní Chróinín, Áine, Beatha Chríost, Leabhair ó Láimhsgríbhnibh, 17, Dublin: Oifig an tSoláthair, 1952.

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