Texts

Manuscript witnesses

Text
Cork, University College, Book of Lismore 
Fragment corresponding to Leabhar Breac, pp. 156a (line 62)–157b (line 29).
ff. 41ra–41vb  
MS
Cork, University College, Book of Lismore 
incipit: [n]a nIudaidhe. de ar daigh coneiplitis do ghorta   Acephalous fragment of an Irish text based on Vengeance du Sauvoir. Complete copies are found in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610, ff. 18va-22vb, and Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16, pp. 150b (line 54)-157b (line 29). Stokes describes this leaf, f. 2 in his numbering, as “misplaced”.
f. 41ra.1–f. 41vb
Text
ff. 44r–48r  pp. 57–65   
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 
incipit: Da bliadhain .xl. uero batar na Hiudaide a morforpairt cruid ⁊ bíd ⁊ clainni   
p. 150b.52–p. 157b.29
Text
pp. 150b (line 54)–157b (line 29).   
Text
f. 63vb  

Sources

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Edition wanted
As announced in Apocrypha, an edition by Pierre-Yves Lambert is forthcoming.
Translation wanted
No translation known at this stage

Secondary sources (select)

Lambert, Pierre-Yves, “La compilation irlandaise de la ‘Vengeance du sang du Christ’ (Dígail fola Críst). État des recherches”, Apocrypha: International Journal of Apocryphal Literatures 15 (2004): 235–258.
Flower, Robin, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 2, London: British Museum, 1926.
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Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890.
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