The Miracula Nynie Episcopi (Miracles of Bishop Ninian) is an anonymously written 8th-century hagiographic work describing miracles attributed to Saint Ninian

Saint Ninian

Saint Ninian is a Christian saint first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland...

. It is considered a non-historical work, and copies are not widely extant.

It was used as a reference by Ailred of Rievaulx

Ailred of Rievaulx

Aelred , also Aelred, Ælred, Æthelred, etc., was an English writer, abbot of Rievaulx , and saint.-Life:...

 in composing his Vita Sancti Niniani

Vita Sancti Niniani

The Vita Sancti Niniani or simply Vita Niniani is a Latin language Christian hagiography written in northern England in the mid-12th century. Using two earlier Anglo-Latin sources, it was written by Ailred of Rievaulx seemingly at the request of a Bishop of Galloway...

(Life of Saint Ninian) in the 12th century, a document that was used by the politically ambitious Fergus of Galloway

Fergus of Galloway

Fergus of Galloway was King, or Lord, of Galloway from an unknown date , until his death in 1161. He was the founder of that "sub-kingdom," the resurrector of the Bishopric of Whithorn, the patron of new abbeys , and much else besides...

 in resurrecting the long-defunct Bishopric of Galloway.

Edition and translations

• Strecker, Karl (ed.). "Miracula Nynie Episcopi." In Poetae Latini Aevi Carolini 4.3, ed. Karl Strecker. MGH
  Monumenta Germaniae Historica
  The Monumenta Germaniae Historica is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published sources for the study of German history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500.The society sponsoring the series was established by the Prussian reformer Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom...
  
  Antiquitates. Berlin: Weidmann, 1923 (first published: 1883). pp. 943–61. Available online from the Digital MGH.
• MacQueen, Winifred W. (tr.). "Miracula Nynie Episcopi." In St. Nynia, edited by John MacQueen. Revised edition. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1990 (first published: 1961). pp. 88–101. Also published as:
• MacQueen, Winifred W. (tr.). "Miracula Nynie Episcopi." Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society 37 (1960). pp. 21–57
• Márkus, Gilbert (tr.). "The Miracles of St Nynia the Bishop (c. 780?)." In The Triumph Tree: Scotland’s Earliest Poetry, 550–1350, edited by Thomas Owen Clancy. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1998. pp. 126–39.