Texts
Días macclérech
Incoming data
Short story about two clerical students who make an agreement that whoever of them should die first will return to the other with reports of the hereafter.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Cork, University College, Book of Lismore
incipit: Dias macclerec batar i comuidh oc leghiunn
ff. 85ra–85va
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
incipit: DÍAs macclerech ro batar i commaid oc légund comtar comaltai óptar noidin.
p. 278a–
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
incipit: DÍAs macclerech ro batar i commaid oc légund comtar comaltai óptar noidin
pp. 278a–278b
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/IV (ff. 123-144)
Story of two fellow clerical students
f. 140b
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/IV (ff. 123-144)
incipit: Da macclerech robadar a comann ac denam a leighiunn
f. 140vb-141r
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.
[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. OʼBrien, and Anne OʼSullivan [eds.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983.
CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>
Vol. 5, 1222 Diplomatic edition of the copy in LL.
[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.
