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Muirchú's Life of Patrick

Author: Muirchú maccu Machtheni

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Ludwig Bieler

translated by Ludwig Bieler

Electronic edition compiled by Liam Costello

Funded by University College, Cork, School of History

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 13590 words

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(2019)

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Text ID Number: T201045

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Notes

This text was digitized and made available online as part of a work placement for the MA in Medieval History. The Latin text is available online, with many other resources, at the RIA's Confessio Hypertext Stack Project (https://www.confessio.ie/more/muirchu_latin#).

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    Manuscript sources
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  2. Brussels, Bibliothèque royale 64, 11th century, fo. 299r to 303r.
  3. Vienna, Nationalbibliothek Ser. nov. 3642, 8th century, two fragments.
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    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. The Patrician texts in the Book of Armagh. Ludwig Bieler (ed), First edition [288 pp.] Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Dublin (1979) . Scriptores Latini Hiberniae. , No. 10

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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Sampling Declaration

The present text represents pages 63–123 of the volume. All editorial introduction, notes and indexes have been omitted.

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Correction

The text has been checked and proofread twice.

Normalization

The electronic texts represents the edited text.

Quotation

Quotation marks are rendered q.

Hyphenation

The hyphenation is that of the edition.

Segmentation

div0=the Saint's life; div1=the book; div2=the chapter; page-breaks are marked. Paragraphs are marked. Passages in verse are marked. The story was reconstructed by Bieleer from the three manuscripts into chapters 1-22 of Book 1. Manuscripts B and C start a second Book containing according to Bieler, 'a series of disconnected single stories'; the first three not being in A (7).

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Names of persons and place names are not tagged. Numbers and dates are not marked. The sentences within each paragraph were numbered by the editor.

Canonical References

This text uses the DIV2 element to represent the Chapter.

Profile Description

Created: Translation by Ludwig Bieler. (1979)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The translation is in English.
Language: [LA] A few words are in Latin.

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