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Vita sancti Fechini

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Latin life of St Féchín, abbot of Fore.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Killiney, Franciscan Library, MS F 1

p. 220 ff

Text

Lost manuscript (vita sancti Fechini, MS FitzSim)

The Bollandists had a second version of the text, which they received from Henry Fitzsimon. This manuscript is now lost.

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 485

f. 111v ff

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 505/ff. 1-210

f. 178d ff

MS

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 505/ff. 1-210

Life of St Féichín of Fore (feast-day: 20 January)

f. 178a

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.

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76–85 Edition based primarily on R1, conflated with R2 and compared with F.

[ed.] Colgan, John, Acta sanctorum veteris et maioris Scotiæ seu Hiberniæ, sanctorum insulæ, Louvain: Everard De Witte, 1645.

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130–133 (incl. two hymns at the end)

[ed.] Bollandus, Ioannes, and Godefridus Henschenius, Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, vel a catholicis scriptoribus celebrantur, 68 vols, vol. 2: Ianuarius II, Antwerp: Ioannes Meursius, 1643.

329–332

Secondary sources (select)

Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.

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lxiv–lxvii