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King David and the beggar (short version)

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Manuscript witnesses

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29/pp. 17-216 

f. 57ra = p. 83a

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29/pp. 17-216 

incipit: Aroile duine truagh bocht ⁊ moirsheisir cloinde aigi tainic cum Dabith do chuincidh almsaine fair   

f. 57ra  p. 83a  

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 25 

incipit: Araili duine truag bocht doruacht docum. Dáibhidh ri do cuinnchid ailmsuine fair   

f. 65va  p. 124a  

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1781 

incipit: Aroile duine truagh bocht ⁊ muirer mor cloinne [aige] tainic co Daibid   Flower: “Egerton is nearer to the Book of Fermoy”

f. 150b  

Sources

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[ed.] Meyer, Kuno, “A medley of Irish texts: XII. King David and the Beggar”, Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 3 (1907): 321–322.  

Book of Fermoy, p. 83 a, and 24 P 25, p. 124a.

Celtic Digital Initiative – edition: <link> CELT – Book of Fermoy version: <link> CELT – 24 P 25 version: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

McNamara, Martin, The apocrypha in the Irish Church, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1975.

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