Texts

Días macclérech ‘Two clerical students’

prose
Irish religious texts

Short story about two clerical students who make an agreement that whoever of them should die first will return to the other with reports of the hereafter.

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

pp. 278a–278b

beg. ‘DÍAs macclerech ro batar i commaid oc légund comtar comaltai óptar noidin’

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 IV, ff. 123-144

f. 140vb–141r

beg. ‘Da macclerech robadar a comann ac denam a leighiunn’

Cork, University College, Book of Lismore = Book of Lismore (Leabhar Leasa Móir) [s. xv]

ff. 85ra–85va

beg. ‘Dias macclerec batar i comuidh oc leghiunn’

Form

prose (primary)

Classification

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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.

[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. OʼBrien, and Anne OʼSullivan [eds.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983.

CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>

Vol. 5, 1222 Diplomatic edition of the copy in LL.

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890.