On The Calendar of Oengus (1880)

Author: Whitley Stokes

Book ID: 68928

Price: 275.00

The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. [June 1880]. Part 1. On The Calendar of Oengus. By Whitley Stokes. Dublin: The Academy, 1880. First Edition. Pp [31], 352. Folio. Ex library copy with stamps in a library cloth binding. A good copy.

Manuscript letter from Whitley Stokes pasted-in along with a printed review of this work in French by H. D’Arbois De Jubainville. Stokes takes issue with D’Arbois review and criticism.

The Old Irish work known as Félire Óengusso (Martyrology of Óengus) is the earliest metrical martyrology, a register of saints and their feast days, to have been written in the vernacular. The work survives in at least ten manuscripts, the earliest being Leabhar Breac of the early 15th century.

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