Texts
Betha Ciaráin Saigre II
Incoming data
Second Irish Life of St Ciarán of Saigir (Seirkieran, Co. Offaly). According to Plummer (1925), it is based on a Latin Life now lost, which also served as an exemplar for a shorter text, Capgrave’s Life of Pieran.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 4190-4200
Colophon: As leabhar memraim le Eochaidh h. hlfernain do scriobadh an tsen-cairt i ttig na mbrat[h]ar i cCaisel, ⁊ ag Drobaois damh anossa a cconueint na mbrathar ag scriobadh na bethadh so asan sen-cairt remnáite an .14. Febru. 1629, i.e. “from a vellum book belonging to Eochaidh O'Heffernan was written the old copy in the house of the Friars at Cashel, and now I am at Drowes in the Friars' convent writing these Lives from the old copy aforesaid, Febr. 14. 1629”.(1)n. 1 Charles Plummer, ‘A tentative catalogue of Irish hagiography’ in Miscellanea hagiographica Hibernica... (1925): 184.
ff. 144a–153b
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.] Plummer, Charles, Bethada náem nÉrenn: Lives of Irish saints, 2 vols, vol. 1: Introduction, texts, glossary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.
[corr.] [add.] 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.
Secondary sources (select)
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.
