Texts

Irish version of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica (Books I-II)

  • Middle Irish
  • prose
  • Medieval Irish literature, Medieval Irish literary adaptations
Middle Irish version of the first two books of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.
Title
Irish version of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica (Books I-II)
No title occurs in the manuscript.
Language
  • Middle Irish
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
(Possible) sources: Historia ecclesiastica gentis AnglorumHistoria ecclesiastica gentis AnglorumA history in five books on the churches and peoples of England.

Classification

Medieval Irish literatureMedieval Irish literature
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Medieval Irish literary adaptationsMedieval Irish literary adaptations
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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.] Cox, Edward G., “A Middle Irish fragment of Bede's Ecclesiastical history”, in: C. S. Northup, M. W. Sampson, W. Strunk, and F. Thilly (eds), Studies in language and literature in celebration of the seventeenth birthday of James Morgan Hart, November 2, 1909, New York, 1910. 122–178.
Internet Archive: <link>
[ed.] Bergin, O. J. [ed.], “A Middle-Irish fragment of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History”, in: Osborn Bergin, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 3, Halle and Dublin, 1910. 63–76.
CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno, “Eine irische Version von Beda's Historia”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 2 (1899): 320–321.  
comments: Laud 610, f. 87 b.
CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Preface only.

Secondary sources (select)

Ní Chatháin, Próinséas, “Bede’s Ecclesiastical History in Irish”, Peritia 3 (1984): 115–130.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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