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Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension A)

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A catalogue entry is available.

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29/pp. 1-16 

p. 1a–p. 16b

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29/pp. 1-16 

Fragment bound in front of the Book of Fermoy.

ff. 1–8  pp. 1–16   

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iii 1 

The order of the folios is disturbed.

ff. 9–22  

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 

incipit: IN PRINCIPIO fecit Deus celum & terram   Redaction 1. Includes the Roll of the Kings (Do Fhlathusaib hÉrend, see below).

p. 1a–p. 26b

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 

ff. 1a–26b  

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 

rubric: Incipit do flathiusaib Herend & dia hamseraib o ré Mac Miled co hamsir Tuathail Techtmair.   On the pre-Christian kings of Ireland, until the time of Túathal Techtmar

p. 14b.45–p. 24a

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 

rubric: Incipit do flaithesaib & amseraib Herend iar creitim.   On the Christian kings of Ireland

p. 24a–p. 26b

Text

Mullingar, Longford-Westmeath County Library, Gaelic MS 1 

Two fragments, with the verse reduced or omitted

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.] [tr.] Macalister, R. A. S., Lebor gabála Érenn: The book of the taking of Ireland, 5 vols, Irish Texts Society, 34, 35, 39, 41, 44, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1932–1942.

Internet Archive – Vol. 1 (1938 ed.): <link> Internet Archive – Vol. 2 (1939 ed.): <link> Internet Archive – Vol. 3 (1940 ed.): <link> Internet Archive – Vol. 4 (1941 ed.): <link> Internet Archive – Vol. 5 (1956 ed.): <link>

[ed.] Carey, John, “Lebar gabála, Recension I”, unpublished PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 1983.

Edition of the text except for the king-lists.

[tr.] Carey, John [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: John T. Koch, and John Carey (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, 4th ed., 1, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. [Various].

§ 108. Translation of the first recension.

Secondary sources (select)

Carey, John (ed.), Lebor gabála Érenn: textual history and pseudohistory, Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series, 20, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 2009.

Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part I: the growth of the text”, Ériu 38 (1987): 79–140.  

comments: The second part is Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II”, Ériu 39 (1988).

Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II: the growth of the tradition”, Ériu 39 (1988): 1–66.  

comments: This article continues Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part I”, Ériu 38 (1987).

Hamel, A. G. van, “On Lebor Gabála”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 10 (1915): 97–197.

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