Texts
Do secht n-ingantaib déc in domain in adaig ro génir Críst
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Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48a
Text on the 17 wonders that occurred on the night of Christ’s birth
f. 11vb.36–
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16
On the 17 wonders on the night of the Nativity.
p. 132b–
Sources
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Note below that Ó Cuív does not appear to have been aware of Hull’s publication.
[ed.] Breatnach, Caoimhín, John Carey, Brian Ó Cuív, Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, Martin McNamara, Jean-Daniel Kaestli, and Diarmuid Ó Laoghaire (eds), Apocrypha Hiberniae, part I: Evangelia infantiae, 2 vols, vol. 2, Corpus Christianorum, Series Apocryphorum, 14, Turnhout: Brepols, 2001.
582 ff
[ed.] Ó Cuív, Brian, “The seventeen wonders of the night of Christ’s birth”, Éigse 6:2 (1950, 1948–1952): 116–126.
117–110 (text), 124–125 (notes and variants) [‘Text I’] LB.
[ed.] [tr.] Hull, Vernam, “The Middle Irish apocryphal account of ‘The seventeen miracles at Christ's birth’”, Modern Philology 43:1 — Studies in honor of Tom Peete Cross (August, 1945): 25–39.
29–30 (text); 33–36 (translation) [‘Text I’] Edition from LB, collated with Eg. 1781; with English translation, incl. variant readings from Eg. in footnotes.
[ed.] Ó Cuív, Brian, “The seventeen wonders of the night of Christ’s birth”, Éigse 6:2 (1950, 1948–1952): 116–126.
119–120 (text) [‘Text II’] LFF.
[ed.] [tr.] Hull, Vernam, “The Middle Irish apocryphal account of ‘The seventeen miracles at Christ's birth’”, Modern Philology 43:1 — Studies in honor of Tom Peete Cross (August, 1945): 25–39.
32 (text); 36–37 (translation) [‘Text IV (LFF)’] LFF, with occasional readings from YBL.
[ed.] Ó Cuív, Brian, “The seventeen wonders of the night of Christ’s birth”, Éigse 6:2 (1950, 1948–1952): 116–126.
120–121 [‘Text III’] RIA 24 P 25.
[ed.] Hull, Vernam, “The Middle Irish apocryphal account of ‘The seventeen miracles at Christ's birth’”, Modern Philology 43:1 — Studies in honor of Tom Peete Cross (August, 1945): 25–39.
31 [‘Text II (P)’] 24 P 25
