Texts
Irish story of Comgall and the foreign monk
Incoming data
Anecdote about Comgall of Bangor facing devotional competition from a foreign monk.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.26
incipit: Manach craibdich tainic tairis anoir do comsinid crabaid re Comgall Bendcair
f. 4va
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/IV (ff. 123-144)
incipit: Manach craibthech tánic tairis anoir do chomsinedh crabaid re Comgall Bennchair
f. 141v
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/IV (ff. 123-144)
Story of St. Comgall of Bangor
f. 141b
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[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno, “Anecdota from Irish MSS: 10. MS Rawlinson B 512, fo. 141b, 2; ib., 142a, 2 [and] Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, MS 2324-40, fo. 6”, The Gaelic Journal 4:47 (November 1893, 1889–1893): 229.
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Stories from the Edinburgh MS. XXVI (Kilbride Collection No 22)”, in: Osborn Bergin, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 3, Halle and Dublin, 1910. 7–10.
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