Texts
Benchuir bona regula
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Early metrical hymn in honour of the rule of the community (familia or muinter) of Bennchor (Bangor, Co. Down), which is found in the Antiphonary of Bangor.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS C 5 inf
rubric: Versiculi familiae Benchuir incipit: Benchuir bona regula
ff. 30v–31r
MS
Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS C 5 inf
rubric: Versiculi familiae Benchuir incipit: Benchuir bona regula
f. 30r–
Sources
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[ed.] [tr.] Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín [ed.], “Mary, Eve and the Church (c. 600-1800)”, 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. 45–165.
57–58 Text by F. E. Warren (1853) and translation by Peter O'Dwyer (1988).
[ed.] Warren, Frederick E. [ed.], and W. Griggs, The antiphonary of Bangor: an early Irish manuscript in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, 2 vols, Henry Bradshaw Society, 4, 10, London: Harrison, 1893–1895.
[tr.] OʼDwyer, Peter, Mary: a history of devotion in Ireland, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1988.
35–36
