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Lebor Bretnach

Incoming data

A catalogue entry is available.

Middle Irish adaptation of the Historia Brittonum ascribed to Nennius

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 

incipit: ...amAcht cena ol se.   Incomplete. Subheading on f. 3b: ‘De chathaigecht Gorthemir’.

p. 3a.1–p. 4b.22

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 

Fragment.

ff. 3a–4b  

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 

rubric: Leabhor Breatnagh [later hand]   Ends abruptly on f. 141. See the TCD fragment below.

f. 139(148)ra–f. 141(150)

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 

f. 113r(203)a–f. 117r(211)b

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 

Interpolated version.

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1295 

p. 378–p. 390

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1319/pp. 172-187, 192-194 

Sections I–V = §§ 1–7 of Van Hamel’s edition, except the concluding phrase of IV. Beginning imperfect.

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1319/pp. 172-187, 192-194 

pp. 174b24–176a   

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336/6.1 

col. 806–col. 826

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336/6.1 

cols 806–826

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.

[ed.] Hamel, A. G. van [ed.], Lebor Bretnach: the Irish version of the Historia Britonum ascribed to Nennius, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1932.

Irishmanuscripts.ie – PDF: <link> Google Books: <link>  : View in Mirador

[ed.] [tr.] Todd, James Henthorn, Leabhar Breathnach annso sis: the Irish version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1848.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: View in Mirador

Secondary sources (select)

Clancy, Thomas Owen, “Scotland, the ‘Nennian’ recension of Historia Brittonum, and the Lebor Bretnach”, in: Simon Taylor (ed.), Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297: essays in honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 87–107.

Dumville, David N., “The textual history of Lebor Bretnach: a preliminary study”, Éigse 16:4 (Geimhreadh 1976, 1975–1976): 255–273.

Dumville, David N., “‘Nennius’ and the Historia Brittonum”, Studia Celtica 10–11 (1975–1976): 78–95.