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Betha Choluim Chille
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Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.40
This copy offers some additional material that is not found in either Leabhar Breac or the Book of Lismore.
pp. 13–28
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.] Herbert, Máire, Iona, Kells, and Derry: the history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
217–288 Edition and English translation
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “Betha Choluim Chille: On the Life of Saint Columba”, in: Whitley Stokes, Three Middle-Irish homilies on the Lives of saints Patrick, Brigit and Columba, Calcutta, 1877. 89–125, 140.
[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.
[ed.] [tr.] Grosjean, Paul [ed. and tr.], “The life of St. Columba from the Edinburgh MS.”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 2 (1927–1928): 111–171.
Text and translation from Gaelic MS XL.
[add.] Grosjean, Paul, “The life of St Columba from the Edinburgh MS. (supplementary note)”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 3 (1929–1931): 84–85.
[tr.] Hennessy, W. Maunsell [tr.], “The old Irish Life of St. Columba: being a discourse on his life and character delivered to the brethren on his festival”, in: William F. Skene, Celtic Scotland: a history of ancient Alban, 3 vols, vol. 2: Church and culture, 2nd ed., Edinburgh: Douglas, 1887. 467–507.
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Translation based on the Leabhar Breac, collated with the versions in the Book of Lismore and Gaelic MS XL.
Secondary sources (select)
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.
433–434