Texts

Vita sancti Aedi filii Bricc ‘The life of Áed mac Bricc’

  • Latin
  • Irish hagiography
Latin Life of Áed mac Bricc, patron saint of Rahugh, in three recensions

Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Subjects

Áed of Rahugh
Áed of Rahugh
(d. 589)
Áed mac Bricc, patron saint of Ráith Áeda and Cell Fháir / Áir (Rahugh and Killare, Co. Westmeath)

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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.] Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.
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34–45 An edition of the Kilkenniensis recension based on M, collated with T
[ed.] Heist, W. W. [ed.], Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae: ex codice olim Salmanticensi, nunc Bruxellensi. Lives of the saints of Ireland, from the Salamanca manuscript now of Brussels, Subsidia Hagiographica, 28, Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1965.
167–181 An edition of the Salmanticensis recension

Secondary sources (select)

Plummer, Charles, Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.
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xxvi–xxviii
Sharpe, Richard, Medieval Irish saints’ lives: an introduction to Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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