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Gaelic-English vocabulary to Bedell's Bible of 1690 (Robert Kirk)
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A brief, alphabetically arranged vocabulary (5½ pages) printed at the end of the 1690 edition of Bedell’s Irish Bible (An Biobla Naomhtha), which was the first to combine the Old and New Testaments. The list was compiled by Robert Kirk, minister of Aberfoyle, who supervised the printed of this edition and appended the vocabulary to explain unfamiliar classical Irish words to Scottish readers who might be struggling with the translation. Most of the glosses are in English, while a smaller proportion of them are in Scottish Gaelic.
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Text
London, British Library, MS Egerton 158
context: Kirk-Ó Broin glossary A copy written in Cork by Séamus Ó Broin, who made several additions in Irish.
f. 79r ff
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[ed.] Bedell, William [et al.], and Uillam Ó Domhnuill [et al.], An Biobla Naomhtha: iona bhfuil Leabhair na Seintiomna... / agus na Tiomna Nuaidhe..., ed. Robert Kirk, London: R. Ebheringtham, 1690.
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[ed.] Stokes, Whitley, “The glossary in Egerton 158”, Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 3 (1907): 148–214.
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Egerton copy. Since Stokes only refers to the 1810 edition of Bedell’s Bible, it would seem that he was not fully aware of the origin of the list.
[add.] Stokes, Whitley, “Note on the glossary in Egerton 158”, Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 3 (1907): 247–248.
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[add.] Stokes, Whitley, “Notes on the glossary in Egerton 158”, Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 3 (1907): 290.
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Secondary sources (select)
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás, “Gluaisre Egerton 158, a fhoinsí agus a lorg ar DIL”, Celtica 19 (1987): 133–140.
