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['This is a manuscript transcription made in 1636 of a translation by two Franciscans, Séamus Ó Siaghail and Aodh Ó Raghailligh, for the Irish Poor Clares at Bethlehem convent. The manuscript is held at the Royal Irish Academy; a digital version is availble via Irish Scripts on Screen.\r\nFor an edition, see Eleanor Knott (ed.), ‘An Irish Seventeenth-Century Translation of the Rule of St. Clare’, Ériu, 15 (1948). For further discussion, see Coolahan, Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland, chapter 2.\r\n\r\nMLC may12']
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