Texts

Senchus fer n-Alban

Incoming data

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Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2

incipit: Da mac Echach Munreamair

ff. 109rd (line 9)–110v

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12

incipit: Da mac Eachach Mundramair

ff. 84vb–85rc

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1298/1-238

cols 66 (line 10)–69 (line 13)

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1298/1-238

col. 66.10–col. 69.13

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.] Bannerman, John, Studies in the history of Dalriada, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1974.

27–68

[ed.] Dumville, David N. [ed.], “Cethri prímchenéla Dáil Riata”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 20 (2000): 170–191.

Edition, with commentary

[ed.] Dumville, David N., “Ireland and North Britain in the earlier Middle Ages: contexts for Míniugud senchusa fher nAlban”, in: Colm Ó Baoill, and Nancy R. McGuire (eds), Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2000, Aberdeen: An Clò Gaidhealach, 2002. 185–212.

Edition, with commentary

Secondary sources (select)

Woolf, Alex, “Senchus Fer n-Alban”, in: John T. Koch (ed.), Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia, 5 vols, Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2006. Vol. 4: 1605–1606.

Sharpe, Richard, “The thriving of Dalriada”, 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. 47–61.