Texts
Foscél ar Brénainn (dialogue with Moínenn of Clonfert)
Incoming data
A Middle Irish short story about a dialogue between Brénainn of Clonfert with one of his successors, Moínenn, bishop of Clonfert, on the subject of death and the afterlife.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/3 (pp. 15-58)
incipit: In naghaidh ég ol a daltae fri Bhrennain Shorter version of an anecdote known in fuller form elsewhere.
p. 40a.9
Text
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS celtique 1/I, IV (ff. 1-8, 22-29)
rubric: Fosc[él] ar Brenainn incipit: Luid Brénainn do-thabairt anma a-mathar a-hIfern
f. 29va
MS
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS celtique 1/I, IV (ff. 1-8, 22-29)
rubric: Fosc[él] ar Brenainn ed. and tr. from this manuscript by Joseph Vendryes, ‘Trois historiettes irlandaises du manuscrit de Paris’, Revue Celtique 31 (1910): 309–311.
f. 29va
Sources
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[ed.] [tr.] Vendryes, J., “Trois historiettes irlandaises du manuscrit de Paris”, Revue Celtique 31 (1910): 300–311.
Internet Archive: <link>
309–311 Based on the Paris MS.
[ed.] OʼSullivan, Anne [ed.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983. xv + pp. 1327-1708.
CELT – pp. 1327–1595 (excl. pp. 1596–1708): <link>
Based on LL
Secondary sources (select)
Plummer, Charles, “A tentative catalogue of Irish hagiography”, in: Charles Plummer, Miscellanea hagiographica Hibernica: vitae adhuc ineditae sanctorum Mac Creiche, Naile, Cranat, 15, Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1925. 171–285.
Grosjean, Paul, “Textes hagiographiques irlandais”, Études Celtiques 2:4 (1937): 269–303.
Contents: I. Le miracle du décapité; II. Comment l’Amra de Colum Cille sauva Mac Taidhg de la captivité et du diable; III. La Vision de Baithin; IV. Comment Brendan de Clonfert changea un enfant de fille en garçon dans le sein de sa mère; V. Dialogue de s. Brendan avec son disciple Moinen sur la mort; VI. Les prières de l’anachorète Fergal; VII. Le balai de Fánaid; VIII. Saint Moling et le lépreux; IX. Eulalie de Shaftesbury et le rosaire; X. Sur sainte Reichtín; XII. Un miracle de la Vierge: la statue du Mont-Saint-Michel; XIII. S. Dunchad Úa Braein; XIV. Extraits de la Règle de Tallaght.
