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Geinemain Eóin Baisti ‘The conception/birth of John the Baptist’

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  • Medieval Irish literary adaptations, Irish religious texts
Medieval Irish translation of the De decollatione Johannis Baptistae, a section in the Legenda aurea concerning the conception of John the Baptist. The text is imperfect.
Manuscripts
London, British Library, MS Egerton 91 [s. xv]
f. 46
rubric: ‘[D]o geinemain Eoin baisti annso mar a der Legendauria’
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Medieval Irish literary adaptationsMedieval Irish literary adaptations
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Irish religious textsIrish religious texts
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Subjects

John the Baptist
John the Baptist
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Sources

Secondary sources (select)

McNamara, Martin, The apocrypha in the Irish Church, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1975.
64 [id. 53. ‘The conception of John the Baptist’]
Flower, Robin, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 2, London: British Museum, 1926.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
March 2014, last updated: January 2024
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