Texts
Geinemain Eóin Baisti
Incoming data
Medieval Irish translation of the De decollatione Johannis Baptistae, a section in the Legenda aurea concerning the conception of John the Baptist. The text is imperfect.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
London, British Library, MS Egerton 91
rubric: [D]o geinemain Eoin baisti annso mar a der Legendauria
f. 46
Sources
Secondary sources (select)
McNamara, Martin, The apocrypha in the Irish Church, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1975.
64 [id. 53. ‘The conception of John the Baptist’]
Flower, Robin, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 2, London: British Museum, 1926.
