Texts
Commentary on the Amra Choluim Chille
Incoming data
Middle Irish commentary in the form of scholia accompanying copies of the Amra Choluim Chille.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 50
First leaf is a badly stained fragment. On p. 24: introduction beg. Locc don ealadhuinse.
p. 1–
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C iii 2
Extensive gloss
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1106
Item nos. 3 and 8. Modern copy of the introduction to the Amra Choluim Chille from the Leabhar Breac and YBL respectively.
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1288
Poem with Middle Irish commentary. Transcribed from Egerton 1782
f. 54
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1441
context: Irish Liber hymnorum Ff. 33v-34vb contain the prose preface, ff. 26ra-28v the poem with interlinear gloss.
ff. 33–34vb (prose preface), 26ra–28v
Text
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.40
Preface and other quotations inserted in the Betha Choluim Chille.
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
‘A poem/song for Colum Cille’: the poem ascribed to Dallán Forgaill, with extensive commentary.
f. 54r(95)a.1–
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.], “The Bodleian Amra Choluimb Chille”, Revue Celtique 20 (1899): 31–55, 132–183, 248–289, 400–437. Corrigenda in Revue Celtique 21 (1900): 133–136.
[ed.] Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson [eds.], The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, vol. 1: Text and introduction, Henry Bradshaw Society, 13, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.
comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction
Volume 2: Translation
Volume 2: Translation
[tr.] Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson, The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, vol. 2: Translation and notes, Henry Bradshaw Society, 14, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.
comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction
Volume 2: Translation
Volume 2: Translation
[ed.] [tr.] Crowe, John O'Beirne [ed. and tr.], The Amra Choluim Chilli of Dallan Forgaill, vol. 1, Dublin: MacGlashan and Gill, 1871.
comments: Volume 1 contains an edition and translation of the text. Volume 2, which was to include "notes, a grammatical analysis of the text and copious indexes" (as the title announces), was never published.
Betha Choluim Chille in Gaelic MS XL:
[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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494–502 Translation of the preface as inserted into the Betha Choluim Chille copy of Gaelic MS XL, compared with the Leabhar Breac and YBL version. direct link
[ed.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890.
