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Mo Ling and the Devil

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Manuscript witnesses

MS

Cork, University College, Book of Lismore 

rubric: Sgel ar Muling annso sis   Short story about St Mo Ling Luachra and the Devil

f. 87ra–f. 87rb

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 

p. 284a (line 48ff)  

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 

incipit: Fechtas dósom oc ernaigthi ina eclais.   Prose and verse

p. 284a–p. 284b

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Book of the White Earl 

context: Commentary to Félire Óengusso   Version in the commentary to the Félire Óengusso

MS

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/II (ff. 53-75) 

Legend of St. Moling and the Devil

f. 64v

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/IV (ff. 123-144) 

f. 141va28-vb30  

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.] Stokes, Whitley [ed.], Goidelica: Old and early Middle Irish glosses, 2nd ed., London, 1872.  

comments: Cf. Stokes, Whitley, et al., Thesaurus palaeohibernicus (1901–1910).

Internet Archive: <link>

179–182 Text from LL

[ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967. xv + pp. 1119-1325.

CELT – pp. 1119-1192 and 1202-1325: <link>

1239–1240 Diplomatic edition of the LL version direct link

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, The martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Henry Bradshaw Society, 29, London: Harrison, 1905.  

Edition and translation of the Félire Óengusso, with introduction, notes, etc.

CELT – edition (prefaces, prologue, main text and epilogue): <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>, <link>

154–156 Laud 610 version

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], On the calendar of Oengus, Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Irish Manuscript Series, 1.1, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1880.  

Stokes' first edition of the Félire Óengusso (the second edition was published in 1905). A new version of the preface was published as in 1883.

Internet Archive: <link>

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