Desiderius, otherwise called Sgáthán an chrábhaidh
By: by Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire (Florence Conry) Edited by Thomas F. O'Rahilly.
Contributors: Deseoso.; O'Rahilly, Thomas Francis, ed.
Series: Mediaeval and modern Irish series,; vol. XII
Publisher: Stationery Office
Published: 1941
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: gle; spa
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: Sgáthán an chrábhaidh.
Notes: 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.