Texts

Ríagail Phátraic

Incoming data

A catalogue entry is available.

Tract on the relationship between church and laity.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Cork, University College, Book of Lismore

rubric: Raigail Patraic Fragment.

f. 81vb

MS

Cork, University College, Book of Lismore

rubric: Riaghail Pátraic

f. 81vb

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16

context: Ríagail na Céle nDé Longest version, part of Ríagail na Céle nDé (Rule of the Céli Dé, §§ 57-65)

p. 11b

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336/6.2

cols 852–855

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336/6.2

incipit: Forata anmanda fer nErenn a timna Patraic

Edited in CIH 2129.6-2130.36.

col. 852–col. 855

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.] OʼKeeffe, J. G. [ed. and tr.], “The Rule of Patrick”, Ériu 1 (1904): 216–224.

Internet Archive: <link>

Edition and translation based on TCD 1336.

[dipl. ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.

comments: numbered pp. 1926–2343; diplomatic edition of legal material from:

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 (continued)
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1387
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1308
London, British Library, MS Additional 4783
London, British Library, MS Nero A 7
Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS NKS 261b
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 3
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 11
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C i 2
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16
Dublin, Trinity College, MS E 3. 3

CIH 2129.6–2130.37 Diplomatic edition of the text in TCD 1336.

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890.

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135, 359 (notes) Book of Lismore version. The corresponding Leabhar Breac version of this fragment is edited and translated in the notes. direct link direct link

[ed.] [tr.] Reeves, William, The Culdees of the British Islands, as they appear in history: with an appendix of evidences, Dublin: Gill, 1864.

HathiTrust: <link>

Fragment embedded in the ‘Rule of the Céli Dé’.

Secondary sources (select)

Kelly, Patricia, “The Rule of Patrick: textual affinities”, in: Próinséas Ní Chatháin, and Michael Richter (eds), Ireland and Europe in the early Middle Ages: texts and transmissions / Irland und Europa im früheren Mittelalter: Texte und Überlieferung, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. 284–295.

Sharpe, Richard, “Some problems concerning the organization of the church in early medieval Ireland”, Peritia 3 (1984): 230–270.

Follett, Westley, Céli Dé in Ireland: monastic writing and identity in the early Middle Ages, Studies in Celtic History, 23, Woodbridge, 2006.

142–143