Apocrypha Hiberniae
Subtitle: Apocalyptica : In tenga bithnua : The ever-new tongue
By: cura et studio John Carey
Series: Corpus Christianorum . Series Apocryphorum -- 16; Corpus Christianorum -- 16.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9782503530758
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Creation; Cosmology
Other titles: In tenga bithnua; Ever-new tongue; Apocalyptica; Container of (expression): In tenga bithnua. English (Carey); Container of (expression): In tenga bithnua. Irish (Carey)
Notes: Medieval Irish text, possibly based on the apocryphal Acts of Philip.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-31) and indexes.

Two separate recensions of the Irish text, each translated into English.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Abbreviations; title: Bibliography; title: Introduction. Structure of the edition; title: Recensions and manuscripts; title: Second recension; title: LQ vs. YOM; title: LQY vs. OM; title: LQYO vs. M; title: Short Recension; title: Third recension (modern recension); title: Synopsis; title: Background and sources. Previous scholarship; title: A revelation discourse?; title: The Acts of Philip; title: Transmission to the West; title: Hexaemeral and cosmological sources; title: Translation into Irish; title: Language and dating. Phonology; title: Nouns; title: Adjectives; title: The definite article; title: Pronouns. Infixed pronouns; title: Verbs. The deponent; title: Simplification of compound verbs; title: Sense of the augmented preterite; title: Personal endings; title: Inflection of strong verbs; title: The substantive verb; title: The copula; title: Prepositions; title: Particles; title: Date of the Book of Lismore version; title: Date of the second recension; title: Principles of edition. Structure; title: The Book of Lismore text; title: The second recension; title: Paragraph division; title: Expansion; title: In tenga bithnua : the ever-new tongue : edition and translation of the Lismore text and of the second recension. First recension : Lismore text; title: Second recension; title: Commentary and textual notes; title: Indices. Concordance of the present edition with the treatments of Stokes and Herbert; title: Index of Biblical references; title: Index of persons and places; title: Index of authors and texts; title: Index of manuscripts.