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The Life of Fursa

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Whitley Stokes

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Sources

    Manuscript sources for the Irish text
  1. Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, MS 2324–40, AD 1629; scribe: Michael O'Clery (Charles Plummer, Miscellanea hagiographica Hibernica (Brussels 1925) 190 section 39). A copy of RIA MS 968.
  2. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 968 (olim A. iv. 1 olim Stowe 9; see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. 22, 2780–83), c. 1627; scribe: Domnall Ó Duinnín (Charles Plummer, Bethada naem nÉrenn (2 vols, Oxford 1922), i p. xii).
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    Digital images of Stokes's edition and translation
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    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Whitley Stokes, The Life of Fursa in Revue Celtique. volume 25 (1904) page 385–404

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Created: Translation by Whitley Stokes (c.1904)

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Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [LA] A few words are in Latin.
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Language: [FR] One word is in French.

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