Texts
Betha Brénainn Clúana Ferta I
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So-called first Irish Life of Brénainn of Clúain Fertae (Clonfert, Co. Galway), also known as the Lismore Life. While the first and second Lives represent much the same version during the first part of the narration, they diverge at the point where the second Life becomes conflated with the Navigatio sancti Brendani. The first Life, moreover, concludes with a fragment of Fis Adomnáin.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 187
Copied from the lost Black Book of Molaga. Corresponds to the Lismore version.
f. 29
Text
pp. 195–205
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Cork, University College, Book of Lismore
rubric: Beatha Brenainn meic Fhinnlagha incipit: Beatus uir qui timet Dominum in mandatis eius uolet nimis Defective at the end.
ff. 72(30)va.1–77(35)ra
MS
Cork, University College, Book of Lismore
Life of St Brénainn (Brendan) of Clonfert
f. 72va–
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 12 D 22
Irish Life copied from the Book of Lismore, with English translation by John O'Donovan on alternate pages. For English translations, see also RIA MS 12 M 13 and Cork, UCL, MS T 34.
pp. 93–193
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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 6
Coped from the Book of Lismore.
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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS celtique 1/V, VII (ff. 30-57, 74-117)
rubric: Betha Bhrénaind indso Defective at the end.
ff. 81v–87r
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.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890.
Secondary sources (select)
Mac Mathúna, Séamus, “The Irish Life of Saint Brendan: textual history, structure and date”, in: Clara Strijbosch, and Glyn S. Burgess (eds), The Brendan legend. Texts and versions, 24, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. 117–158.
Kenney, James F., “Chapter V: The monastic churches: II. The churches of the sixth to ninth centuries; general treatises”, in: James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Revised ed., 11, New York: Octagon, 1966. 372–485.
413–414 (VB6) [id. 202.]
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.
