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Náemhshenchas náemh Insi Fáil (Version B)
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Versified list of the saints of Ireland.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5100-5104
incipit: Naoimhshenchas naomh Innsi Fáil 180 qq. Colophon as transcribed in the catalogue description: An brathair Michel O Cleirigh do sgriobh an duan so a cconveint Duin na nGall as an ccoip do sgriobadh as leabhar Leacain Mhic Fir Bhisigh ⁊ nir chuir athrucchadh suidhighte na cumaoin sgribhneorachta uirre acht ani fuair san ccoip asar sgriobh .28. April. 1636.
ff. 212r–217r
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2
incipit: Náemsheanchas náem indsi Fáil 181 qq.
f. 49va ff
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1348/vol. 2
“mainly of the B type, but with differences” (Plummer).
p. 97
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1348/vol. 2
Described by Abbott in the catalogue as a “Metrical Genealogy of the Irish Saints, by Eochaidh Eigeas O'Cleireachan, pp. 53”.
p. 97–
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Secondary sources (select)
Plummer, Charles, “A tentative catalogue of Irish hagiography”, in: Charles Plummer, Miscellanea hagiographica Hibernica: vitae adhuc ineditae sanctorum Mac Creiche, Naile, Cranat, 15, Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1925. 171–285.
