The Mothers’ Lament at the Slaughter of the Innocents

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Printed source of this digital edition

‘Anecdota from Irish MSS’ (III), ed. Kuno Meyer, The Gaelic Journal 4, no. 38 (May 1891) 89-90

Manuscript source of printed text

Royal Irish Academy Ms 23 P 16 (Leabhar Breac), cat. no. 1230, p. 141 a

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Early Irish.

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Project funder: Professor Marianne McDonald (University of California, San Diego) via the Ireland Funds.

Date: Final mark-up completed, 2007-11-06

Text ID: km.gj.4.38.002

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