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Desiderius, otherwise called Sgáthán an chrábhaidh
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- Creator
- by Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire (Florence Conry) Edited by Thomas F. O'Rahilly
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- Sgáthán an chrábhaidh
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- Irish, Spanish
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- Dublin : Stationery Office, 1941
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- 4 preliminary leaves, [v]-li, 363 pages ; 19 cm
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- ocm04955073
- An allegorical pilgrimage.
- Reprint of the original edition (Louvain, 1616) entitled "Emanuel / leabhar ina bhfuil modh / iarrata ... na / beathadh riaghaltha ... Sgáthan an chrábhaidh drong / oile Desiderius." An incomplete translation of parts I to III of the Spanish work, Tratado llamado el Desseoso, y por otro nombre, Espejo de religiosos. The first edition known, written in Catalan by a priest of the order of St. Jerome, was an anonymous publication (Barcelona, 1515). Passages were inserted to encourage Irish Catholics, and considerable omissions made, in Conry's version. cf. Introd., p. [VII] and XVI.