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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. 46heading: ‘[D]o geinemain Eoin baisti annso mar a der Legendauria’

Form

prose (primary)

Classification

Medieval Irish literary adaptations Irish religious texts

Subjects

John the BaptistJohn the Baptist – No short description available
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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 [ed.], Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 2, London: British Museum, 1926.

445

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