Texts

Leabhuir an tSean Tiomna

Incoming data

17th-century Irish translation of the Old Testament, commissioned and supervised by the Anglican bishop William Bedell (d. 1642) and published posthumously in 1685, financed by Robert Boyle.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd IX 7

Continuation from the Marsh MSS above. Incl. the prophetic books and apocryphal books omitted from the print publication.

Text

Dublin, Marsh's Library, MS Z 4.2.3a

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Dublin, Marsh's Library, MS Z 4.2.3b

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Dublin, Marsh's Library, MS Z 4.2.4

Transcript.

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[print] Bedell, William, Leabhuir an tSean Tiomna: ar na dtarruing on teanguidh ughdarach go Gaidhlig tré chúram agus sáothar, an doctúr Uilliam Bhedel, 1685.

The original printed book

[reprint] Bedell, William, and William OʼDomhnuill, Biobla naomhtha: ann a bhfuilid an tSean Tiomnadh...Uilliam Bhedel / agus an Tiomna Nuadh...Uilliam O Domhnuill, London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1817.

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19th-century print

[reprint] Bedell, William, Leabhuir an tSean Tiomna: ar na dtarruing on teanguidh ughdarach go Gaidhlig tré chúram agus sáothar, an doctúr Uilliam Bhedel, Dublin: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1827.

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19th-century print

[ed.] Ó Cuinn, Cosslett, Scéalta as an apocrypha, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1971.

Edits a number of texts excluded from the printed publication: Bel and the dragon, Susanna and the Elders, and the Book of Tobit.

[ed.] Ó Madagáin, Breandán, “ [Review of: Ó Cuinn, Cosslett, Scéalta as an apocrypha, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1971.]”, Studia Hibernica 14 (1974): 181–187.

184–187 Text of Book of Baruch ch. 2, from Cambridge MS, ff. 342-343 (with variants from Marsh, Z 4.2.4).

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Fearghail, Fearghus, “The first Irish translation of the Old Testament”, Biblicum Jassyense: Romanian Journal for Biblical Philology and Hermeneutics 4 (2013): 103–124.

McCaughey, Terence, Dr. Bedell and Mr. King: the making of the Irish Bible, Dublin: DIAS, 2000.

Williams, N. J. A., I bprionta i leabhar: na Protastúin agus prós na Gaeilge, 1567–1714, Dublin: An Clóchomhar, 1987.

Herbert, Máire, and Pádraig de Brún, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in Cambridge libraries, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

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