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Cath Maige Rath II

Incoming data

A catalogue entry is available.

Second and longer recension of the tale of the battle of Mag Rath.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 44 

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 9 

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 1a 

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Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/6 (cols 281-344) 

Version edited by John O'Donovan. The first page is illegible and a folio is missing.

cols 281–310

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339/Supplement 

Fragment only.

pp. 409–410   

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.] OʼDonovan, John [ed. and tr.], The banquet of Dun na n-Gedh and the battle of Magh Rath, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1842.

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Secondary sources (select)

Dillon, Myles, “A note on the texts of Cath Maige Rath preserved in the Yellow Book of Lecan”, Éigse 7:3 (1955): 199–201.

Ó Riain, Gordon, “Varia I: 1. Two quatrains in Cath Maighe Rath; 2. An unrecorded scribal note in RIA 23 Q 16; 3. IGT II 1258”, Ériu 63 (2013): 145–151, 151–153, 152.