Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: T201046

Life of Saint Fintán, alias Munnu, abbot of Tech Munnu (Taghmon, Co. Wexford)

Author: [unknown]

Background details and bibliographic information

File Description

W. W. Heist

Translated by Roy Flechner

Electronic edition rendered in TEI-XML by Beatrix Färber

Funded by College of Arts and Humanities, UCD

1. First draft.

Extent of text: (6925) words

Publication

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt

(2021)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: T201046

Availability [RESTRICTED]

Available with prior consent of the CELT Project for purposes of academic research and teaching.

Notes

We are very grateful to Dr Roy Flechner for donating the English translation of this Saint's Life to CELT, based on Heist's Latin edition, and for supplying the relevant codicological and bibliographical details. For more information, please see the Credits in the Introduction.

Sources

    Primary Manuscript
  1. 'Codex Salmanticensis', now Brussels, Bibliothèque royale Albert 1er, MS 7672–7674, fols. 110–123.
    Edition of Latin original
  1. W. W. Heist, ed., Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae e Codice Salmanticensi nunc Bruxellensi, Subsidia Hagiographica 25 (Brussels 1965), 198–209.
    Selected Literature
  1. Richard Sharpe, Medieval Irish Saints' Lives: An Introduction to the Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae (Oxford 1991), 297–339.
  2. Rachel Butter, 'St Munnu in Ireland and Scotland', in: The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland, eds. Steve Boardman and Eila Williamson (Woodbridge 2010), 21–41.
  3. Judyta Aleksandra Szacillo, 'Irish hagiography and its dating: a study of the O'Donohue group of Irish saints' lives', Unpublished PhD Thesis, Queens University of Belfast, 2012.
  4. Pádraig Ó Riain, 'The O'Donohue Lives of the Salamancan Codex: the earliest collection of Irish saints' lives?', in: Gablánach in scélaigecht: Celtic studies in honour of Ann Dooley, eds. Sarah Sheehan, Joanne Findon, and Westley Follett (Dublin 2013), 38–52.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Roy Flechner, Life of Saint Fintán, alias Munnu, abbot of Tech Munnu (Taghmon, Co. Wexford) in . , Cork, CELT (2021)

Encoding

Project Description

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Sampling Declaration

The present text represents a translation of pp. 198–209 of Heist's edition. The Latin original is still in copyright.

Editorial Declaration

Correction

Text has been checked and proofread by the editor.

Normalization

The electronic text represents the edited text.

Quotation

Direct speech is rendered q.

Hyphenation

Soft hyphens are silently removed. Words containing a hard or soft hyphen crossing a page-break or line-break have been placed on the line on which they start.

Segmentation

div0=the Life; div1=the section; page-breaks mark the printed edition and are encoded pb ed="WWH" n=""/.

Standard Values

Dates are standardized in the ISO form yyyy-mm-dd. (There are no dates in the text.)

Canonical References

This text uses the DIV1 element to represent the Section.

Profile Description

Created: Translation by Roy Flechner (and his associates?) (2020)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The translation is in English.
Language: [GA] Some words are in Irish.
Language: [LA] Some words are in Latin.

Revision History