Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii is a Latin text written about 1180–1184 by a monk who identified himself as H. of Saltrey. The author is traditionally known as Henry, though this was an insert
A 1506 illustration of Owein with the Prior at St Patrick's Purgatory
Visio Tnugdali
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The Visio Tnugdali is a 12th-century religious text reporting the otherworldly vision of the Irish knight Tnugdalus, later also called "Tundalus", "Tondolus" or in English translations, "Tundale", all
Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
…Auchinleck manuscript preserves a version in Middle English verse. In its themes, Irish background, and breadth of influence, it is comparable to the Visio Tnugdali. The two texts are nearly contemporary and frequently appear in the same manuscripts. Like the Visio Tnugdali, the Tractatus shows influence from the…
The Mouth of Hell, by Simon Marmion, from the Getty Tondal, detail
Tundale suffers a seizure at dinner, Getty Tondal
Tundale looks over the wall of Heaven, woodcut illustration from an edition in German printed by Matthias Hupfuff in Strasbourg, 1514