Texts
Fís Adomnáin‘Adomnán's vision’
- Irish religious texts, Fís
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- Immram Snédgusa ocus Maic Riagla
- The ending of the text only.
Manuscripts
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 (1229) = Lebor na hUidre [s. xi/xii]ff. 27a–31b
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 (Hodges & Smith 224, 1230) = Leabhar Breac [s. xvin]pp. 253b–256a (facs.)
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS celtique 1 V/VII, ff. 30-57 + 74-117 [s. xv?]ff. 95rb–98vb
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48a = Liber Flavus Fergusiorum, part 1 [c. 1435-1440]ff. 17vb–20va
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xivex/xvin]cols 709–713Shorter version.
Textual relationships
Cf. Fís Adomnáin II
- Related:
- Fís Adomnáin II
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.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], Fis Adamnain: slicht Libair na hUidre. Adamnán's vision, Simla: privately printed, 1870.
[tr.] Stokes, Whitley [tr.], “Adamnan’s Vision”, Fraser's Magazine 83 (1871): 184–194. Reprinted in Margaret Stokes, Three months in the Forests of France, London 1895, pp. 265-79.
Internet Archive: <link>
[tr.] Boswell, C. S., An Irish precursor of Dante: a study on the vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the eighth-century Irish Saint Adamnán, with translation of the Irish text, London, 1908.
Secondary sources (select)
Colwell, James J., “Fís Adamnán: a comparative study, with introduction, text, and commentary based on the version of the Lebor na Huidre”, Dissertation: Edinburgh University, 1952.
Dumville, David N., “Towards an interpretation of Fís Adomnáin”, Studia Celtica 12–13 (1977–1978): 62–77.
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