Stair Ercuil ocus a bás The life and death of Hercules

Author(s)

• Quin, E. G. (Ernest Gordon)
• Lefèvre, Raoul, fl. 1460

Bibliographic Information

Stair Ercuil ocus a bás = The life and death of Hercules

edited and translated, with notes, glossary, etc. by Gordon Quin

（Irish Texts Society = Cumann na Scríbheann Gaedhilge, v. 38）

Pub. for the Irish Texts Society, by the Educational company of Ireland, 1939

Other Title

Stair Ercuil ocus a bás

Note

Irish and English on opposite pages

Preface and introduction in English

"The text ... exists ... in one manuscript only, that numbered H. 2.7 in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin ... The source ... is Raoul Lefevre's 'Recueil des histoires de Troyes,' finished ... in 1464 ... The exploits of Hercules occupy part of Book 1 and the whole of Book 2 of the 'Recueil'" -- Introd., p. [xiii]-xv

Spine & added title page: 1939 (1936)

• NCID: BA65588772
• Country Code: ie
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: gleeng
• Place of Publication: Dublin
• Pages/Volumes: xl, 263 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PB1347
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Irish language -- Middle Irish -- Texts
  • LCSH : Hercules
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0695616X