Medieval Irish Apocalyptic Apocrypha (2024)
McNamara MSC, Martin, Caoimhín Breatnach, Pádraig A. Breatnach, John Carey, Joseph Flahive, Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, Máire Herbert, Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh, Erich Poppe, Charles D. Wright, eds. Apocrypha Hiberniae II, Apocalyptica 3. Corpus Christianorum Series Apocryphorum 22. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. approx. iv + 444 pp.
“The present volume, the continuation of volume CCSA 21, comprises further editions, by several of the major scholars now working in the field of medieval Irish apocrypha, of a selection of important eschatological texts.
The first of these, Bráth, níba bec a breisim, edited by Erich Poppe, concerns the events which will occur on the Day of Judgement. Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh provides edition, translation and a commentary of Poems 153-162 of Saltair na Rann, an independent eschatological composition. Prof. Uáitéar Mac Gearailt publishes a study and a commented edition of Scéla Laí Brátha, Tidings of the Day of Judgement. Prof. Caoimhín Breatnach publishes Garbh éirghid iodhain bhrátha, Harshly do the pangs of Doomsday, as well as two short Irish texts on the Fifteen Signs Before Doomsday and on Doomsday. Prof. Pádraig A. Breatnach provides the edition of A Tract on the Fifteen Signs of Doomsday. Fr Martin McNamara MSC publishes two short studies in Appendices: the first one on the duration of the Day of Doom (The Day of Doom a Thousand Years, in Appendix 1); the second one concerns a quotation in the Fifteen Signs text edited by Caoimhín Breatnach from the 15th-century Latin theologian Pelbartus (Passage from Pelbartus, Advent Sermon IV: Appendix 2). Fr McNamara also introduces the collection with a discussion of “The Signs before Doomsday”.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
General Introduction: The Signs before Doomsday
Martin McNamara
Bráth, níba bec a breisim – A Poem on the Day of Judgement
Erich Poppe
Poems 153-162 of Saltair na Rann
Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
Scéla Laí Brátha – Tidings of the Day of Judgement
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt
Garbh éirghid iodhain bhrátha – Harshly do the pangs of Doomsday approach
Caoimhín Breatnach
Texts on the Fifteen Signs Before Doomsday and on Doomsday
Caoimhín Breatnach
A Tract on the Fifteen Signs of Doomsday with Account of Hells Torments and the Joys of Heaven
Pádraig A. Breatnach
Appendix 1: The Day of Doom a Thousand Years
Martin McNamara
Appendix 2: Passage from Pelbartus, Advent Sermon IV
Martin McNamara
Indexes for volumes CC SA 21-22 (Apocrypha Hiberniae II, 2-3: Apocalyptica)
Index of Biblical References
Index of Persons and Places
Index of Texts Edited in these Volumes and their Sources
Index of Authors and Texts
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Irish Words
Index of Latin Words”
Description from the publisher’s website.
