Texts
Betha Beineoin deiscipuil Pátraic
Incoming data
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Life of St Benén, companion of St Patrick, in Irish and Latin.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Lost manuscript (Giolla Glas Ua hUiginn)
On f. 223 of the Brussels MS below, Ó Cléirigh reveals his exemplar to have been written by Giolla Glas Ua hUiginn in 1471 and to have been entrusted to him by the priest Nioclas Ó Cathasaigh when Ó Cléirigh was visiting in Dublin in c.1629.
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.] Grosjean, Paul, “De S. Benigno: episcopo Ardmachano”, in: Hippolyte Delehaye, and Paul Peeters (eds), Acta sanctorum, 68 vols, vol. 67: Novembris tomus 4, Paris, 1925. 145–188.
170–186 Edition, with translation into Latin.
Secondary sources (select)
Ó Riain, Pádraig, A dictionary of Irish saints, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.
Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. This book is a guide to the (mainly documentary) sources of information on the saints named in these dedications, for those who have an interest in them, scholarly or otherwise. The need for a summary biographical dictionary of Irish saints, containing information on such matters as feastdays, localisations, chronology, and genealogies, although stressed over sixty years ago by the eminent Jesuit and Bollandist scholar, Paul Grosjean, has never before been satisfied. Professor Ó Riain has been working in the field of Irish hagiography for upwards of forty years, and the material for the over 1,000 entries in his Dictionary has come from a variety of sources, including Lives of the saints, martyrologies, genealogies of the saints, shorter tracts on the saints (some of them accessible only in manuscripts), annals, annates, collections of folklore, Ordnance Survey letters, and other documents. Running to almost 700 pages, the body of the Dictionary is preceded by a preface, list of sources and introduction, and is followed by comprehensive indices of parishes, other places (mainly townlands), alternate (mainly anglicised) names, subjects, and feastdays.
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Plummer, Charles, “A tentative catalogue of Irish hagiography”, in: Charles Plummer, Miscellanea hagiographica Hibernica: vitae adhuc ineditae sanctorum Mac Creiche, Naile, Cranat, 15, Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1925. 171–285.
