Manuscript Repositories

On the traditions of representation of the saint in the Book of Kells and the Book of Armagh, among others.

Review article of: The Book of Kells, MS 58, Trinity College Library Dublin, ed. by Peter Fox (Luzern: Faksimile Verlag, 1990); The Book of Kells: proceedings of a conference at Trinity College Dublin, 6-9 September 1992, ed. by Felicity O’Mahony (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1994); The Book of Kells: an illustrated introduction to the manuscript in Trinity College Dublin (London: Thames & Hudson, 1994), by Bernard Meehan.

Studies the ornamentation of the opening initials to John’s Gospel in MSS TCD 57 (Book of Durrow), and 58 (Book of Kells), among others.

Studies the Kells charters (without edition).

Studies the notitiae in the Book of Kells, and offers an edition and analysis of Tigernán Ua Ruairc’s 1152 grant of Mag nDechrad to the church of Kells.

Rev. by
Rory Masterson, in Ríocht na Midhe 32 (2021), pp. 334-335.

On the monastic scribal tradition and the significance of illumination; includes a discussion of three examples of animal ornament from Insular Gospel books (Durrow, Lindisfarne and Kells).

On the influence of Ailerán’s poem on the elaboration of the arcaded canon tables in the Book of Kells. Includes an excursus on the professional status of scribes.

Rev. by
Martha H. Fleming, in Church history 68/2 (Jun., 1999), pp. 438-440.
Suzanne Lewis, in Speculum 77/2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 519-521.
Dorothy Verkerk, in Peritia 14 (2000), pp. 443-445.

Rev. by
Roger Stalley, in Irish arts review 23/3 (Autumn, 2006), p. 138.

Examines tonsured figures in the Book of Kells, which are interpreted as examples of the unorthodox ‘delta tonsure’ propounded by the author.

Rev. by
Michael Herity, in JRSAI 119 (1989), pp. 165-166.
Susanne McNab, in Peritia 6-7 (1987-1988), pp. 340-342.

Argues it should be dated to shortly after AD 600.

With an Historical atlas (16 pls). Appendix: Adomnán, king Aldfrith, and the home of the Book of Durrow.

Rev. by
K. W. Nicholls, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 535-558.
Gerard Rice, in Ríocht na Midhe 7/2 (1982-1983), pp. 123-125.
Patrick Wormald, in The Scottish historical review 60/2 (Oct., 1981), pp. 162-163.

Rev. by
Peter Harbison, in Irish arts review yearbook 13 (1997), pp. 195-196.

Studies the ornamentation of the opening initials to John’s Gospel in MSS TCD 57 (Book of Durrow), and 58 (Book of Kells), among others.

On the monastic scribal tradition and the significance of illumination; includes a discussion of three examples of animal ornament from Insular Gospel books (Durrow, Lindisfarne and Kells).

Rev. by
Michael Herity, in JRSAI 119 (1989), pp. 165-166.
Susanne McNab, in Peritia 6-7 (1987-1988), pp. 340-342.

On the traditions of representation of the saint in the Book of Kells and the Book of Armagh, among others.

Includes three glosses in Irish: 32. focrici, 69. oen and 79. dilus.

Add. et corr. in Peritia 14 (2000), pp. 430-431.

Reports on scientific analyses carried out on the pigmentation used in Usserianus Primus, Garland of Howth, Book of Dimma and Book of Mulling.

Suggests that the colophon drawing in MS TCD 60 (reproduction included) derives from Carolingian manuscript illumination rather than a plan of an Irish monastery. Incl. plts.

Reports on scientific analyses carried out on the pigmentation used in Usserianus Primus, Garland of Howth, Book of Dimma and Book of Mulling.

Diplomatic edition of the early Irish law tracts in manuscripts from the professional schools: MSS TCD H 2.12 (8iii), H 2. 15A, H 2. 15B, H 2. 16, H 3. 17, H 3. 18, H 4. 22, H 5. 15, E 3. 3, E 3. 5; RIA 23 P 12, 23 Q 6, 23 P 3, C i 2; Rawlinson B 487, Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 506; Harley 432, Egerton 88, Egerton 90, Nero A 7, Add. 4783; NLI G 3, G 11; Copenhagen 261B.

Vol. I. 1978. xxviii + 337.
Vol. II. 1978. 339-744.
Vol. III. 1978. 745-1138.
Vol. IV. 1978. 1139-1531.
Vol. V. 1978. 1532-1925.
Vol. VI. 1978. 1926-2343.

Introductory matter (i-xxviii) also separ. publ.

Rev. by
Liam Breatnach, Aidan Breen and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 382-438.
T. M. Charles Edwards, in StH 20 (1980), pp. 141-162.

Part 1: Texts on the grades of the filid and bards other than Uraicecht na ríar: Uraicecht becc, Míadṡlechta, Bretha nemed (with English translation and notes), Mittelirische Verslehren, etc. Part 2: Uraicecht na ríar: dated to second half of the 8th c. Edited from MSS TCD E 3. 3, Egerton 153, TCD H 1. 15, and TCD H 2. 15a; restored and normalized; with MS texts, English translation and notes; linguistic analysis.

Rev. by
Anders Ahlqvist, in Éigse 25 (1991), pp. 195-197.
Neil McLeod, in IJ 22 (1987), pp. 302-303.
Paul Russell, in ÉtC 26 (1989), pp. 264-265.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 44 (1991), pp. 328-329.
R. A. Q. Skerrett, in StC 24-25 (1989-1990), p. 232.
J. E. Caerwyn Williams, in CMCS 17 (Summer, 1989), pp. 83-85.

Edition a late-7th- or 8th-century tract incorporated in Bretha nemed dédenach entitled Dliged sésa a huraicept na mac sésa, dealing with the fundamentals of poetry. Text from TCD H 2. 15b (with variants from E 3.3, O’Davoren’s glossary, etc. in apparatus), German translation, textual notes, preceded by introduction and commentary.

Diplomatic edition of the early Irish law tracts in manuscripts from the professional schools: MSS TCD H 2.12 (8iii), H 2. 15A, H 2. 15B, H 2. 16, H 3. 17, H 3. 18, H 4. 22, H 5. 15, E 3. 3, E 3. 5; RIA 23 P 12, 23 Q 6, 23 P 3, C i 2; Rawlinson B 487, Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 506; Harley 432, Egerton 88, Egerton 90, Nero A 7, Add. 4783; NLI G 3, G 11; Copenhagen 261B.

Vol. I. 1978. xxviii + 337.
Vol. II. 1978. 339-744.
Vol. III. 1978. 745-1138.
Vol. IV. 1978. 1139-1531.
Vol. V. 1978. 1532-1925.
Vol. VI. 1978. 1926-2343.

Introductory matter (i-xxviii) also separ. publ.

Rev. by
Liam Breatnach, Aidan Breen and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 382-438.
T. M. Charles Edwards, in StH 20 (1980), pp. 141-162.

Normalised edition with variants based mainly on MS TCD H 2. 15A (also TCD H 3. 18, H 3. 17, H 2.12 (8iii); Egerton 88; RIA 23 Q 6; Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 487); with English translations and notes. Commentaries from MSS TCD H 2. 15A, H 3. 17, H 3. 18 and Egerton 88 printed with English translations in Apps. 1–4. App. 5 contains restored text with English translations of an Old Irish passage on Caithchi Bech ‘trespass-penalties of bees’, based on MSS TCD E 3. 5 and H 3. 18. App. 6 contains a normalised version of an Old Irish passage on Athgabál Bech ‘distraint of bees’, based on D. A Binchy’s edition, in Celtica 10 (1973), pp. 72–86 (§11), from MS TCD H 3. 18. App. 7 contains some of the Welsh material relating to bees.

Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 21 (1984), pp. 361-362.
Kim R. McCone, in CMCS 8 (Winter, 1984), pp. 45-50.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in Éigse 21 (1986), pp. 241-243.
Morfydd Owen, in StC 20-21 (1985-1986), pp. 276-278.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 41 (1986), pp. 322-324.

Offers a case study for the transmission of Old Irish legal texts.

Not mentioned in Abbott and Gwynn’s Catalogue. Provides text and English translation.

Edition of fragments of annals in Latin: 1. Annales anonymi from MSS BL Additional 4793, PROL SP 63/214; 2. A single entry from Annals of Nenagh s.a. 1399 from MS BL Additional 4821; 3. Annals of Duisk from MS TCD E 3. 10 and BL Lansdowne 418).

Extract of a letter in English (1609) by archbishop William Daniell, entitled De herenachis et Termon lands and containing a discussion of the terms termonn, coarb and airchinnech. From MS TCD E 3. 16, f. 78v.

Provides an edition of Henry Fitzsimon’s Catalogus, based on Maynooth S 40/9 with additional material from TCD E 3. 16.

MSS discussed incl. RIA 23 E 25 (LU), 23 P 12 (Book of Ballymote), 23 P 2 (Book of Lecan) (and its nine leaves now contained in TCD MS H 2. 17), D ii 1 (Book of Uí Mhaine) (and its four leaves now contained in Egerton 90); NLI G 1; TCD H 3. 17, E 4.1; Laud Misc. 610; Lost MS E (used by John Lynch).

G. Irish (MSS RIA 23 F 9 and TCD E 4. 1).

An early Irish translation of the anatomical treatise of Guy de Chauliac. Edition based on NLI G 453 and TCD E 4. 1, with variants from NLS Adv. 72.1.12; with English translation, textual notes and glossary.


Rev. by
Deborah Hayden, in ZCP 67 (2020), pp. 244-247.

Edition of an Early Modern Irish text on the meaning of the Latin term magister, beg. Do chéimindaibh an mhaighisdir ann só. Text based on TCD E 4. 1, with variants from NLI G 8 and TCD H 4. 22; with commentary and English translation.

On mythological references in a marginal note (partly in Irish) to Lamentatio S. Ambrosii (TCD E 4. 2).

Xpistus in nostra insula que uocatur Hibernia, edited from TCD E 4. 2, UCD-OFM A 2 and Palatinus latinus 482; with English translation.

Discusses the development of the three earliest versions of commentary on the Amra (as preserved in LU, Liber hymnorum, and Rawl. B 502) by means of a detailed study of the sections of commentary on §§ 4 and 52.

On the Martyrology of Christ Church (TCD MS E 4. 3).

Discusses 16th and early 17th century manuscript tradition in Co. Mayo, focusing on two MSS associated with the Mac William Burke lordship: Rawl. B 487 and TCD F 4. 13 (Senchas Búrcach).

Discusses a short prefatory tract on the principal bardic metres, surviving in two versions: I. RIA 23 D 4, and II. TCD F 5. 3; includes transcripts.

Anonymous poem, first line Cia meise, a mheic an Chalbhaigh?, addressed to Aodh Buidhe Mac Domhnaill, possibly before ca. 1578. Edited and normalised from Brussels 6131-33 (Book of O’Donnell’s Daughter), and TCD H 1. 6; with English translation and notes.

Elegy on the death of Aodh mac Philib mic Aodha Méig Uidhir (†1428), beg. Leaba charad i gCorcaigh; based on the Book of O’Connor Donn; with variant readings from MSS RIA 24 P 12, TCD H 1. 6 and NLI G 132, critical apparatus, English translation and notes.

Discusses the sources and compilatory process of two substantial entries concerning the O’Briens of Thomond (s.a. 1014 and 1306) which draw upon Cath Chluana Tarbh and Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh respectively.

First line Dígha gach beathad in brón (32 qq.); ed. from TCD MS H 1. 8, with English translation and notes.

A study of textual, palaeographical and codicological aspects of MS TCD H 1. 8, focusing on the annals of folios 12-14.

Studies the annals in fos. 12-14 of TCS H 1. 8 (= ad 81-387), arguing that it formed part of the original compilation of the Annals of Ulster.

beg. In clocán-sa na ríg ruad (32 qq.). Critical edition (normalised) from MSS RIA 23 P 3, BL , TCD H 1. 11, and Brussels 2324–40; with English translation and notes. A versified elaboration of the narrative of Cáin Émíne Báin which it follows in the manuscripts.

Text restored from LU, YBL, Rawl. B 512, Egerton 1782 and 88, RIA 23 N 10, Harley 5280, and TCD H 1. 13. Supersedes J. Pokorny, Conle’s abenteuerliche Fahrt (Best² 1218).

Investigates the textual history of Dúil Dromma Cetta and examines the relationship of this text to Sanas Cormaic.

Appendix 1 contains (a) a transcription of the legible parts of Egerton 1782 fol. 15 and (b) a transcription of TCD H 1. 13 pp. 361-362; Appendix 2 contains a sample concordance to Dúil Dromma Cetta.

Part 1: Texts on the grades of the filid and bards other than Uraicecht na ríar: Uraicecht becc, Míadṡlechta, Bretha nemed (with English translation and notes), Mittelirische Verslehren, etc. Part 2: Uraicecht na ríar: dated to second half of the 8th c. Edited from MSS TCD E 3. 3, Egerton 153, TCD H 1. 15, and TCD H 2. 15a; restored and normalized; with MS texts, English translation and notes; linguistic analysis.

Rev. by
Anders Ahlqvist, in Éigse 25 (1991), pp. 195-197.
Neil McLeod, in IJ 22 (1987), pp. 302-303.
Paul Russell, in ÉtC 26 (1989), pp. 264-265.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 44 (1991), pp. 328-329.
R. A. Q. Skerrett, in StC 24-25 (1989-1990), p. 232.
J. E. Caerwyn Williams, in CMCS 17 (Summer, 1989), pp. 83-85.

Satirical text, derivative of Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis, containing prose and poetry (a crosánacht ?), directed against the Hearth Money Act of 1662. Edited from MSS TCD H 5.9, H 2. 6, RIA 23 K 24, RIA 23 O 79; perhaps composed by Roibeard Nuinsionn. Contains two poems beg. Ceist agam ort, a Shéamuis and Ní dual simeléar ag síol Lóbuis. Includes a glossary and indexes of proper names.

Investigates the dialect of eighteenth-century South Ulster scribe Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, based on the evidence of MS Waterford 18.

Compares the concept of the hero in this narrative with that of its likely English models, and argues in favour of considering it an example of medieval romance, purposely composed by Uilliam Mac an Leagha as an Irish answer to the pagan Greece-set Stair Ercuil ocus a bás.

MS TCD H 2. 7 tacr— sl— ina ucht to be expanded as tachraidh sleg ina ucht ‘a spear meets him in the chest’ in tale Aided Muirchertaig meic Erca §41 (BILL 5117). Emendation illustrates how previous editorial misinterpretation obscured the motif of the threefold death in this tale.

Edition and study of Senchus fer nAlban; text based on TCD MS H 2. 7, with variant readings from RIA MSS 23 P 12 (Book of Ballymote) and 23 P 2 (Book of Lecan). Incl. text from UCD Add. Ir. MS 14 (Mac Firbisigh’s Book of Genealogies). Cf. J. Bannerman 1966 (BILL 8863). Follows an account of the Convention of Druim Cett (575).

Rev. by
T. M. Charles-Edwards, in StH 15 (1975), pp. 194-196.
Donald Macaulay, in The Scottish historical review 58/1 (Apr., 1979), pp. 92-93.
Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Celtica 13 (1980), pp. 169-182.

Bethadh Bibuis o Hamtuir, from MS TCD H 2. 7. Discusses the process of adaptation of the Middle English text into early modern Irish; without edition or translation.

Offers some palaeographical, textual and linguistic observations preliminary to an edition of this text.

A discussion of this genealogical treatise; includes transcripts from the six extant manuscript witnesses.

A comparative study of early Irish and Indian political thought. Irish evidence based on Audacht Morainn, Tecosca Cormaic and De duodecim abusivis.

Appendix: 1. Audacht Morainn (Recension A): edition, translation and notes [critical edition from TCD H 2. 7, YBL and BL Add. 33993]; 2. Audacht Morainn (Recension L): introductory story [text from LL, with translation]; 3. Tecosca Cormaic: notes [variant readings of sections on kingship (accompanied by normalized Old Irish text and English translation)].

Rev. by
J. P. Mallory, in JIES 42/3-4 (Fall/Winter, 2014), pp. 560-562.
Stefan Zimmer, in ZCP 61 (2014), pp. 239-251.

Early modern Irish poem (47 qq.) put into the mouth of Brecán near death. First line Eridh suas, a Tolltanaigh, ed. from MS TCD H 2. 8 (1299), with Engl. transl. and notes. Appendix: Notes on the Uí Allmhuráin (O Hallorans) and the Uí Maoildomhnaigh (O’Muldowneys) by K. W. Nicholls.

Of two copies produced, one was intended for Fearghal Ó Gadhra, the other for publication in Louvain. Discusses and assesses the question of which of the surviving five MSS belongs to which copy of the annals. Concludes in favour of P. Walsh’s view (but against C. Mooney’s) that the Ó Gadhra set is represented by MSS RIA C iii 3 and TCD H 2. 11, and the Louvain set by Franciscan A 13, RIA 23 P 6, RIA 23 P 7. Includes ‘Appendix: Notes on the Individual MSS’. See also P. Walsh, The Four Masters and their work (1944) (Best² 8631), IBL (1936), pp. 81-83 (Best² 2081), and C. Mooney, IER 60 (1942), pp. 223-224, n. 4 (BILL 624).

Discusses 42 manuscript witnesses to the Táin in four different recensions, ranging from 12th to the 19th centuries, and addresses the circumstances of their compilation.

Discusses the five known extant manuscripts by Úa Ríghbhardáin, analysing his scribal style and his orthographical features, including a list of the texts copied by this scribe.

in MS TCD H 2. 12/7 (1442).

Texts include: (chap. 2) An Old Irish tract on satire [beg. Cis lir fodlai aíre, reconstructed from Book of Ballymote, Book of Uí Maine and NLS Gaelic 1; with English translation, manuscript readings and notes, and including the text of a shorter version found in TCD H 3. 18]; (chap. 3) The Old Irish heptad on satire [no. 33, beg. A-táat secht cenéla aíre le Féniu; restored text based on Rawl. B 487 and TCD H 3. 18, followed by diplomatic text of the glosses and commentary in Rawl. B 487; with English translation and notes]; (chap. 4) A miscellany of medieval Irish satires [an edition of the satires cited in Mittelirische Verslehren III (ed. by R. Thurneysen 1891 [Best¹, p. 53]); 86 poems, normalized from the six extant witnesses, with linguistic and metrical analysis, manuscript readings, English translation and notes].

Rev. by
Johan Corthals, in Éigse 37 (2010), pp 174-178.
G. R. Isaac, in JGAHS 62 (2010), pp. 215-216.
Riita Latvio, in SCF 6 (2009), pp. 83-86.
Gerald Manning, in StH 36 (2009-2010), pp. 211-215.
Feargal Ó Béarra, in Béaloideas 77 (2009), pp. 132-134.
S. Ó D., in Clogher record 20/1 (2009), pp. 160-164.
Simon Rodway, in CMCS 62 (Winter, 2011), pp. 94-97.
Paul Russell, in ÉtC 38 (2012), pp. 324-326.
Robin Chapman Stacey, in Speculum 86/3 (Jul., 2011), pp. 785-786.

Diplomatic edition of the early Irish law tracts in manuscripts from the professional schools: MSS TCD H 2.12 (8iii), H 2. 15A, H 2. 15B, H 2. 16, H 3. 17, H 3. 18, H 4. 22, H 5. 15, E 3. 3, E 3. 5; RIA 23 P 12, 23 Q 6, 23 P 3, C i 2; Rawlinson B 487, Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 506; Harley 432, Egerton 88, Egerton 90, Nero A 7, Add. 4783; NLI G 3, G 11; Copenhagen 261B.

Vol. I. 1978. xxviii + 337.
Vol. II. 1978. 339-744.
Vol. III. 1978. 745-1138.
Vol. IV. 1978. 1139-1531.
Vol. V. 1978. 1532-1925.
Vol. VI. 1978. 1926-2343.

Introductory matter (i-xxviii) also separ. publ.

Rev. by
Liam Breatnach, Aidan Breen and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 382-438.
T. M. Charles Edwards, in StH 20 (1980), pp. 141-162.

Normalised edition with variants based mainly on MS TCD H 2. 15A (also TCD H 3. 18, H 3. 17, H 2.12 (8iii); Egerton 88; RIA 23 Q 6; Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 487); with English translations and notes. Commentaries from MSS TCD H 2. 15A, H 3. 17, H 3. 18 and Egerton 88 printed with English translations in Apps. 1–4. App. 5 contains restored text with English translations of an Old Irish passage on Caithchi Bech ‘trespass-penalties of bees’, based on MSS TCD E 3. 5 and H 3. 18. App. 6 contains a normalised version of an Old Irish passage on Athgabál Bech ‘distraint of bees’, based on D. A Binchy’s edition, in Celtica 10 (1973), pp. 72–86 (§11), from MS TCD H 3. 18. App. 7 contains some of the Welsh material relating to bees.

Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 21 (1984), pp. 361-362.
Kim R. McCone, in CMCS 8 (Winter, 1984), pp. 45-50.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in Éigse 21 (1986), pp. 241-243.
Morfydd Owen, in StC 20-21 (1985-1986), pp. 276-278.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 41 (1986), pp. 322-324.

Extracts of annalistic entries concerning the dioceses of Limerick and Killaloe, and a list of bishoprics set up at the Synod of Kells in 1152. Ed. with Engl transl. from MS TCD H 2.12/9.

Identifies the anonymous scribe of parts of YBL as Tomás Cam Mac Fir Bhisigh (son of Gilla Ísa) and identifies him with hand in the following MSS: RIA 23 P 2 (Book of Lecan), RIA D i 1, NLS 72.1.8, NLI G 4, TCD H 2.15a. Includes 9 plates.

Part 1: Texts on the grades of the filid and bards other than Uraicecht na ríar: Uraicecht becc, Míadṡlechta, Bretha nemed (with English translation and notes), Mittelirische Verslehren, etc. Part 2: Uraicecht na ríar: dated to second half of the 8th c. Edited from MSS TCD E 3. 3, Egerton 153, TCD H 1. 15, and TCD H 2. 15a; restored and normalized; with MS texts, English translation and notes; linguistic analysis.

Rev. by
Anders Ahlqvist, in Éigse 25 (1991), pp. 195-197.
Neil McLeod, in IJ 22 (1987), pp. 302-303.
Paul Russell, in ÉtC 26 (1989), pp. 264-265.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 44 (1991), pp. 328-329.
R. A. Q. Skerrett, in StC 24-25 (1989-1990), p. 232.
J. E. Caerwyn Williams, in CMCS 17 (Summer, 1989), pp. 83-85.

Diplomatic edition of the early Irish law tracts in manuscripts from the professional schools: MSS TCD H 2.12 (8iii), H 2. 15A, H 2. 15B, H 2. 16, H 3. 17, H 3. 18, H 4. 22, H 5. 15, E 3. 3, E 3. 5; RIA 23 P 12, 23 Q 6, 23 P 3, C i 2; Rawlinson B 487, Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 506; Harley 432, Egerton 88, Egerton 90, Nero A 7, Add. 4783; NLI G 3, G 11; Copenhagen 261B.

Vol. I. 1978. xxviii + 337.
Vol. II. 1978. 339-744.
Vol. III. 1978. 745-1138.
Vol. IV. 1978. 1139-1531.
Vol. V. 1978. 1532-1925.
Vol. VI. 1978. 1926-2343.

Introductory matter (i-xxviii) also separ. publ.

Rev. by
Liam Breatnach, Aidan Breen and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 382-438.
T. M. Charles Edwards, in StH 20 (1980), pp. 141-162.

Normalised edition with variants based mainly on MS TCD H 2. 15A (also TCD H 3. 18, H 3. 17, H 2.12 (8iii); Egerton 88; RIA 23 Q 6; Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 487); with English translations and notes. Commentaries from MSS TCD H 2. 15A, H 3. 17, H 3. 18 and Egerton 88 printed with English translations in Apps. 1–4. App. 5 contains restored text with English translations of an Old Irish passage on Caithchi Bech ‘trespass-penalties of bees’, based on MSS TCD E 3. 5 and H 3. 18. App. 6 contains a normalised version of an Old Irish passage on Athgabál Bech ‘distraint of bees’, based on D. A Binchy’s edition, in Celtica 10 (1973), pp. 72–86 (§11), from MS TCD H 3. 18. App. 7 contains some of the Welsh material relating to bees.

Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 21 (1984), pp. 361-362.
Kim R. McCone, in CMCS 8 (Winter, 1984), pp. 45-50.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in Éigse 21 (1986), pp. 241-243.
Morfydd Owen, in StC 20-21 (1985-1986), pp. 276-278.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 41 (1986), pp. 322-324.

Edited from H 2. 15a (= CIH ii 502.7-519.35) [normalized text, variants, glosses, commentaries]; with linguistic and legal notes, English translation, and glossary.

Appendices contain additional legal commentary, edited with English translation. 1: Text from Rawlinson B 506, fols. 19b-19d (= CIH i 89.26-90.32); 2: Text from Rawlinson B 506 fol. 42d (= CIH i 144.5-17); 3: Text from Rawlinson B 506 55b-56d (= CIH i 174.7-177.33); 4 Text from H 3. 18 p. 434a (= CIH iii 974.29-975.27); 5: Text from Rawlinson B 506 fol. 22a-b (= CIH i 95.37-96.30); 6: Additional commentary [duplicates].

Rev. by
Fergus Kelly, in Medium ævum 81/2 (2012), pp. 323-324.
Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, in Celtica 27 (2013), pp. 182-186.
Paul Russell, in JEH 62/4 (Oct., 2011), pp. 801-802.

Edition based on the four primary witnesses: H 2. 15a (= A), H 3. 17 (= B), H 3. 18 (= C), Rawl. B 506 (= D).

1. Introduction; 2. Normalized OIr. text without glosses; with English translation and notes; 3. Diplomatic edition of A (complete text, glosses, commentary) with English translation and notes; 4. Text of B (text and commentary, incomplete) with English translation and notes; 5. Text of C (Old Irish glossing); 6. Text of D (late MIr. or EModIr. revision of commentary). Bibliography, Indexes.

In Appendices: 1. Orthography and edition; 2. Extracts in O’Davoren’s Glossary and Digests B and C; 3. Cor dá ṡochonn; 4. The order of the extracts in MCSM; 5. Corrigenda to CIH; 6. Tracts of Senchas már.

Rev. by
Dorothy Africa, in Eolas 11 (2018), pp. 131-132.
Thomas Charles-Edwards, in ZCP 67 (2020), pp. 175-196.
Johan Corthals, in CMCS 76 (Winter, 2018), pp. 108-109.
Kevin Murray, in StH 46 (2020), pp. 135-143.
Fangzhe Qiu, in Speculum 94/3 (Jul., 2019), pp. 811-813.
David Stifter, in Celtica 31 (2019), pp. 298-307.
Catherine Swift, in NMAJ 58 (2018), pp. 146-149.

Edition of a short anecdote in Bretha nemed dédenach. Text from H 2. 15a (1316); MS text and normalized text, English transl.

Diplomatic edition of the early Irish law tracts in manuscripts from the professional schools: MSS TCD H 2.12 (8iii), H 2. 15A, H 2. 15B, H 2. 16, H 3. 17, H 3. 18, H 4. 22, H 5. 15, E 3. 3, E 3. 5; RIA 23 P 12, 23 Q 6, 23 P 3, C i 2; Rawlinson B 487, Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 506; Harley 432, Egerton 88, Egerton 90, Nero A 7, Add. 4783; NLI G 3, G 11; Copenhagen 261B.

Vol. I. 1978. xxviii + 337.
Vol. II. 1978. 339-744.
Vol. III. 1978. 745-1138.
Vol. IV. 1978. 1139-1531.
Vol. V. 1978. 1532-1925.
Vol. VI. 1978. 1926-2343.

Introductory matter (i-xxviii) also separ. publ.

Rev. by
Liam Breatnach, Aidan Breen and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 382-438.
T. M. Charles Edwards, in StH 20 (1980), pp. 141-162.

Legal interpretation of the episode of Cormac’s sword in Scél na Fír Flatha (= IT 3/1, 183–229).

App. (a) contains Cert Claidib Chormaic, from TCD MS H 2. 15B with variant readings from Scél na Fír Flatha (cf. supra) 201-202 and O’Davoren’s glossary (W. Stokes 1903-1904 [Best¹, p. 7]) and English translation. App. (b) contains Gúbretha Caratniad §46, from MS Rawlinson B 502, with English translation. App. (c) contains commentary to Findṡruth Fíthail from TCD MS H 5. 15 (= CIH vi 2143.18-40, with corrections to D. A. Binchy’s text), with English translation.

Claims that in this glossary archaic Ir. -ch ‘and’ was used to join the Ogham value of an initial letter with the remainder of its word; vs. R. Thurneysen, Du langage secret dit Ogham, in RC 7 (1886), pp. 369-374 (Best¹, p. 51).

Edition a late-7th- or 8th-century tract incorporated in Bretha nemed dédenach entitled Dliged sésa a huraicept na mac sésa, dealing with the fundamentals of poetry. Text from TCD H 2. 15b (with variants from E 3.3, O’Davoren’s glossary, etc. in apparatus), German translation, textual notes, preceded by introduction and commentary.

= CIH iii 1129.33-1130.37: 1. Áiliu seinm sernar n-imbus; 2. Áiliu tech tuigthe teccairthe, n-aurglan n-airscarthae; 3. Áiliu tech midchúarta milscothaib fíad ḟáth; 4. Áiliu laith co mela maith; 5. Áiliu laith lígach, fochen laith lígach; 6. Áiliu dáilemain dúilib dligid; 7. Fochen escrae, bélmár bledmár, deogmár dérmár; 8. Áiliu escrae n-utmall n-airgid; 9. Áiliu uisce somblas do dig. Diplomatic and normalised texts, from MSS TCD H 2. 15b (Bretha nemed dédenach and O’Davoren’s glossary), RIA 23 P 12, and Laud 610; with English translation and textual notes.

Earliest recension of story of Cormac son of Tadhg mac Céin and the badgers (occurring under the lemma Gaileng in Sanas Cormaic), ed. with Engl. transl. and notes from MSS RIA D ii 1 (Book of Uí Mhaine), TCD 1318 (H 2.16; YBL), RIA 23 P 16 (Leabhar Breac). Story reflects a dietary taboo based on older original meaning of tadhg ‘badger’.

Edition of a story and poem (25 qq.) concerning the poet Flann mac Lonán (†920). Includes transcripts from MSS RIA D iv 2 and TCD H 2. 16; with textual notes and English translation.

Discusses 42 manuscript witnesses to the Táin in four different recensions, ranging from 12th to the 19th centuries, and addresses the circumstances of their compilation.

Emends dítin (IT ii l. 52 (diten YBL), l. 53 (ditin Eg. 1782)) to dídin, vn. of do-feid and translates Is oc dídin do báis-siu atáu-sa ocus bia as ‘I am and I shall be bringing about your death’.

Discusses the question of the interrelationship of the MSS containing recension I of Táin bó Cuailnge, and concludes that the text of Lebor na hUidre is superior to that of the Yellow Book of Lecan. This view is supported principally by the textual analysis of the reference to Cú Chulainn lighting fire for Conchobar occurring in YBL 19r b 35-45 but absent in LU: it is argued that the loss by homoioteleuton detected in LU at lines 4945-46 by R. I. Best and O. Bergin 1929 (Best² 877) can be better explained as an interpolation by the editor of the YBL version of recension I, probably Giolla Íosa Mac Fhir Bhisigh, who used LU.

(Meulenhoff editie, 1106).

Dutch translations with annotations of Tromdámh Guaire (Best² 1246); Mug Éme, Lethech and Gaire from Sanas Cormaic; the introductory part of Immacallam in dá thuarad (§§ I-IX as ed. by W. Stokes, in RC 26 (1905), pp. 4-64); Yellow Book of Lecan, col. 800, inc. Eochaid Rígéiges ardfili na Herend (as ed. by E. Knott, in Ériu 8 (1916), pp. 156-157).

Edition of Bríatharogaim, including glossing and commentary, from MSS RIA 23 P 12, NLI G 53, TCD H 3. 18, and YBL; with translation and notes. Discussion of each of the names: Beithe, Luis, Fern, Sail, Nin, (h)Úath, Dair, Tinne, Coll, Cert, Muin, Gort, Gétal, Straiph, Ruis, Ailm, Onn, Ú(i)r, Edad (?), Idad (?), Ébad (?), Ó(i)r, Uil(l)en(n), Pín (Iphín), Iphín (Pín), Emancholl.

From MS TCD H 2. 16 (Yellow Book of Lecan); translation only.

Presents (i) a critical edition of O’Mulconry’s glossary based on YBL, with manuscript variants and translation, and (ii) an edition of the closely related glossary known as ‘Irsan’ from H 3. 18/4, with translation. With Introduction, Combined commentary, Bibliography, Indexes.

Rev. by
Johan Corthals, in ZCP 67 (2020), pp. 239-243.
Deborah Hayden, in Speculum 95/4 (Oct., 2020), pp. 1206-1207.
Chantal Kobel, in SCF 17 (2020-2021), pp. 15-19.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 46 (2020), pp. 277-280.
Thomas O’Loughlin, in Celtica 32 (2020), pp. 272-274.
Erich Poppe, in CMCS 80 (Winter, 2020), pp. 87-90.

1. The relationship of the texts; 2. Narrative features; 3. Linguistic features. – Giolla Íosa Mac Fhir Bhisigh is likely to have been the redactor of the versions of TBC, BDD and other important texts which occur in his hand in YBL.

Diplomatic editions of two closely related versions: A from Dublin, King’s Inns Library MS 10 (also YBL in App. I); B from Maynooth MS R 73 (b) (also Egerton 136 in App. II). With English translation and some linguistic discussion of version A only.

ad line 163 as ed. by E. Knott 1936 (Best² 1166). Emends ní mise didiu éiside to ní mise didiu eisedar ‘it is not I who ask’ based on reading of MS TCD H 2.16 (Yellow Book of Lecan).

Chap. 1 (pp. 1-27): Magical texts in early medieval Ireland [discusses: I. The St. Gall Incantations, 1-4; II. The spell in the Codex Sti. Pauli; III. The spell in Leabhar Breac; IV. ‘Fer Fio’s cry’]; chap. 2 (pp. 29-48): The spells of blacksmiths, and related matters [ad Fáeth fíada line 54 and the depiction of blacksmiths as magicians in Irish literature]; chap. 3 (pp. 49-88): The three qualifications of a blacksmith [discusses and compares a number of texts that comment on the objects mentioned in Triad 120 on the blacksmith (also found in Bretha nemed toísech): I. The ‘illustrated version’ [YBL and Eg 1782]; II. The poems in Acallam Becc [Bk Lismore]; III. The Edinburgh tract [NLS Adv. 72.1.5]; IV. Druine dána dlegar don Gobainn [H 3. 18]; with text and translation].

Rev. by
Cathinka Dahl Hambro, in Speculum 96/4 (Oct., 2021), pp. 1161-1163.

Identifies scribe of YBL (MS TCD H 2.16) fragment of Táin bó Flidais as Solam Ó Droma, and dates this transcript to c. 1380.

Diplomatic edition of the early Irish law tracts in manuscripts from the professional schools: MSS TCD H 2.12 (8iii), H 2. 15A, H 2. 15B, H 2. 16, H 3. 17, H 3. 18, H 4. 22, H 5. 15, E 3. 3, E 3. 5; RIA 23 P 12, 23 Q 6, 23 P 3, C i 2; Rawlinson B 487, Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 506; Harley 432, Egerton 88, Egerton 90, Nero A 7, Add. 4783; NLI G 3, G 11; Copenhagen 261B.

Vol. I. 1978. xxviii + 337.
Vol. II. 1978. 339-744.
Vol. III. 1978. 745-1138.
Vol. IV. 1978. 1139-1531.
Vol. V. 1978. 1532-1925.
Vol. VI. 1978. 1926-2343.

Introductory matter (i-xxviii) also separ. publ.

Rev. by
Liam Breatnach, Aidan Breen and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 382-438.
T. M. Charles Edwards, in StH 20 (1980), pp. 141-162.

Edition based on LU, supplemented by YBL; with English translation and notes.

Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 16 (1979), pp. 296-300.
Daniel F. Melia, in Speculum 53/3 (Jul., 1978), pp. 607-609.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in StH 17-18 (1977-1978), pp. 215-216.

Second, revised edition. Supersedes 1st Engl. ed., 2015 (= IBK-NF, 10).

Critical edition based on all MSS (LL, YBL, Eg. 1782, NLS Gaelic XL, H 3. 18).

The redactor of the Modern Irish fragment of Táin bó Flidais in YBL may have been Mac Fhir Bhisigh.

Argues that the text of Aided Nath Í in BB and YBL derives ultimately from LU, and suggests that LU was begun in Monasterboice.

Edition of the rosc passage at lines 957-962 of Táin bó Cúailnge (as ed. by C. O’Rahily, 1976), beg. In fitir in dub. Reconstructed from MSS Maynooth C 1, YBL, LL, LU, Stowe Missal; with English translation and textual notes.

Engl. transl. of 2009 2nd rev. Ger. ed. (= IBK-S, 130), further revised and augmented. Superseded by 2nd, rev. ed., 2019 (= IBK-NF, 18).

Critical edition based on all MSS (LL, YBL, Eg. 1782, NLS Gaelic XL, H 3. 18).

Begins: Ni hada dom anmaim, text from Egerton 88, TCD H 2. 16 and TCD H 3. 18.

Critical edition of the main core of 16 roscada (LU 5422-5520) and the rosc of Fiacc son of Fergus (LU 5323-28), with variant readings, detailed linguistic analysis and English translation. This is preceded by a short study of the genre of prophetic vision in the Táin and a discussion of the edited texts.

An Irish translation of the Latin apocrypha Gesta Pilati and Descensus Christi ad Inferos. Edition based on YBL; with English translation, apparatus criticus, comparison with original Latin text and textual notes. Also includes two divergent versions from the Leabhar Breac (fols. 170a-172b and 223a-227a); with English translation, commentary and textual notes.

Rev. by
Caoimhín Breatnach, in Éigse 27 (1993), pp. 162-167.
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, in CMCS 24 (Winter, 1992), pp. 105-108.
Anraí Mac Giolla Chomhaill, in SAM 14/2 (1991), pp. 261-262.
Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, in StH 26 (1992), pp. 239-243.
Diarmuid Ó Laoghaire, in Studies 81, nº 321 (Spring, 1992), pp. 108-110.

beg. Eochaid rı̄gēiges ardfili na hĒrend. Text from YBL, with English translation, notes and an analysis of the language; dated c. 850×950 on linguistic grounds.

Gilla Ísa Mac Fir Bhisigh (as scribe of certain texts in YBL) had at one time before him Lebar Glinne Dá Locha (Rawlinson B 502) and Lebar Nuachongbála (LL): evidence from the textual tradition of Orgain Denna Ríg and Esnada tige Buchet.

Cols. 370–400 and 573–958 of MS TCD H 2. 16 are shown to belong to the book named by Ciothruadh Mac Fhir Bhisigh. MS NLI G 4, containing YBL cols. 959–998, also belongs here.

Text based on Egerton 1782, with variant readings from YBL in apparatus; with Kommentar, normalized Lesetext, German translation and Glossar.

Rev. by
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, in Kratylos 34 (1989), pp. 192-193.
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, in StH 27 (1993), pp. 164-167.
Ailbhe Ó Corráin, in ZCP 43 (1989), pp. 249-251.
Paul Russell, in ÉtC 25 (1988), pp. 247-254.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in IF 94 (1990), pp. 314-316.
Richard Skerrett, in StC 22-23 (1987-1988), p. 279.

Gives a biographical account of Tadhg (mac Gearóid) Ó Rodaighe and offers a survey of the MSS in which Ó Rodaighe wrote one or more sections, of the MSS parts of which were copied from MSS written by Tadhg, and of the MSS that are thought to have been for some time in the possession of Tadhg. From these MSS materials (mainly TCD H 6. 15) twenty four poems, either by or directly concerning Tadhg Ó Rodaighe, are edited with translation, manuscript readings, metrical analysis, and textual notes.

[1.] By Tadhg Ó Rodaighe: (i) (Tugas tuile tromghráidh duit; (ii) Binn le neach a mholadh féin); [2.] in praise of Tadhg and his family: (iii) Beannacht uaim ó rún croidhe, by Seaan Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (iv) Niamhadh na huaisle an eagna, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (v) A fhir thaistil chríche Cuinn, by Pádraig Óg Mac an Bhaird; (vi) Truagh an mhaidhmsi ar mhaicne hÍr, by Seaan Ó Duinnín; (vii) Barr orchra ar fhréimh Rosa, authorship unknown; (viii) Barr orchra aicme Rosa, authorship unknown; (ix) Lúireach Chríost fa chosaibh Thaidhg, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (x) A mhic Gearóid an ghlóir ghloin, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xi) Fíorchrádh d’Éirinn turas Taidhg, by Diarmaid mac Laoisioch Mac an Bhaird; (xii) Cá dream is fhearr ná sliocht Ír?, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xiii) In ainm Chríost an ceangalso, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xiv) Cinnim comhairle le Dia, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xv) An chraobh chumhra uaim don tsaoi, by Séafraidh Ó Ruairc; (xvi) Deirbhshiúr don uaisle an eagna, by An tAthair Pádraig (or Cornán Óg) Ó Coirnín mac Cornáin; (xvii) Slán fa éirghe Eilíse, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xviii) Mó ná mionca triail go Tadhg, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xix) Uaibh mo théarnodh, a Thaidhg chroidhe, authorship unknown; (xx) Is gnáth dhá naomhadh Síol Róigh, authorship unknown; [3.] topics in which Ó Rodaighe manifested interest: (xxi) Comhnaigh, a Chríost, um chroidhe (Laoi na mBuadh), attributed to Colm Cille; (xxii) Aithne dhamh gach meirge mór (Suaitheantas Chloinne Iosrael), authorship unknown; [4.] poems concerning Tadhg mac Taidhg Uí Rodaighe: (xxiii) Maith, trá, do thoigheacht, a Thaidhg, by Fearghal Muimhneach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (xxiv) Aoinsciath chosnaimh na gceall, by Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin.

Identifies the anonymous scribe of parts of YBL as Tomás Cam Mac Fir Bhisigh (son of Gilla Ísa) and identifies him with hand in the following MSS: RIA 23 P 2 (Book of Lecan), RIA D i 1, NLS 72.1.8, NLI G 4, TCD H 2.15a. Includes 9 plates.

Text restored from LU, YBL, Rawl. B 512, Egerton 1782 and 88, RIA 23 N 10, Harley 5280, and TCD H 1. 13. Supersedes J. Pokorny, Conle’s abenteuerliche Fahrt (Best² 1218).

Studies the organization of the king’s banquet as described in Suidigud Tigi Midchúarta, discussing in particular the carving sequence and the hierarchically distributed cuts of meat: 1. lónchrúachait; 2. leschrúachait; 3. loarg; 4. muc formuin; 5. colpthae; 6. crúachait medóin; 7. cunn; 8. mael; 9. midimir; 10. milgetan; 11. camchnáim; 12. colpthae muc; 13. remor n-imdae; 14. dronn.

Cf. R. I. Best, The Journal of Celtic Studies 1 (1950), pp. 190-192 (BILL 674). Discussion of MS TCD H 2. 16) and fragments of RIA D i 3, D iv 1, D v 1 and Rawlinson B 488 fols 1-26. Identifies Four Masters’ ‘Book of Clonmacnoise’ as the Annals of Tigernach. On claidemscin (< claidheamh + scian) as a possible technical term. Contains 6 plates.

Text from TCD MS H 2. 16 (Yellow Book of Lecan).

Eclectic critical edition based on an examination of 33 MSS witnesses, which are divided in three main recensions represented by their oldest MSS: RIA 23 N 10, YBL and LL. Text normalized to Class. OIr. spelling, with order of sections and sequence of maxims following that of RIA 23 N 10; with variants from the oldest nine MSS, facing Engl. transl., textual and linguistic notes. Additional texts given in Appendices: 1. §8 Cía fégam ránac; 2. §9 Secht comarthai déc; 3. Y₁: diplomatic edition; 4. L₁: diplomatic edition; 5. N₁: diplomatic edition and collation with Y₁ and L₁.

Rev. by
John Hudson, in Medium aevum 70/1 (2001), pp. 177-178 [short notice].
Nicolas Jacobs, in CMCS 40 (Winter, 2000), pp. 88-90.
Caoimhín Ó Muirigh, in Peritia 15 (2001), pp. 432-434.
Pádraig P. Ó Néill, in Éigse 35 (2005), pp. 173-174.
David Stifter, in Die Sprache 40/1 (1998), pp. 123-128.

Argues that Yellow Book of Lecan version of Táin bó Cuailnge was redacted directly from interpolated text of Lebor na hUidre in 1392 by Giolla Íosa Mac Fhirbhisigh at Leacán.

Edited from MS Brussels 5301-20, normalized, with diplomatic text; also diplomatic edition of the texts in MSS YBL and RIA 23 E 29 (F); with notes and vocabulary.

Rev. by
Patrizia de Bernardo, in ZCP 40 (1984), pp. 301-303.
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, in StH 19 (1979), pp. 203-206.
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, in Éigse 18/2 (1981), pp. 309-312.

[I.] Introduction; [II.] In tenga bithnua = The ever-new tongue: edition and translation of the Lismore text and of the second recension [prints the Lismore text and the text of the second recension (based on Paris, with variants) on parallel pages, presenting the edited text, critical apparatus and English translation on a split-page]; [III.] Commentary and textual notes; [IV.] Indices.

Rev. by
Elizabeth Boyle, in Irish theological quarterly 76/2 (2011), pp 183-186.
Erich Poppe, in CMCS 61 (Summer, 2011), pp. 91-93.
Clare Stancliffe, in The journal of theological studies (New series), 63/2 (Oct., 2012), pp. 755-758.

Eight stanzas assembled from quotations in various texts. Authorship of Colmán ua Cluasaig (7th cent.) rejected. Three separate parts distinguished; linguistically dated to 10th/11th centuries. First line Marbh friom andes marbh antuaidh. Variorum edition, with Engl. transl. and notes. Based on MSS Brussels 5301-20; Rawlinson B 503, RIA C iii 3; Harley 5280; TCD H 2. 16 (YBL); RIA D ii 1 (Book of Uí Maine); RIA 23 P 16 (Leabhar Breac), TCD H 3. 18.

Argues that LU stands closer to the original Cín Dromma Snechtai texts than MSS Egerton 88 and Dublin, RIA 23 N 10, as it was the direct source of Gilla Commáin Ó Congaláin’s (†1135) selection whence the Connacht MS tradition comes.

Semi-diplomatic edition of Immram Snédgusa ⁊ Maic Riagla from the Yellow Book of Lecan (following the order of the text in the MS).

Edition, normalised to early Old Irish standard, of a poem beg. Marb friumm andess, marb atúaid (8 qq.) with translation and commentary. Based on MSS Brussels 5301–20; Rawlinson B 503; RIA C iii 3; Harley 5280; Yellow Book of Lecan; Book of Uí Mhaine; Leabhar Breac; TCD H 3. 18: for apparatus criticus, see G. S. Mac Eoin, The Lament for Cuimine Fota, in Ériu 28 (1977), pp. 17-31. Disagrees with some of the conclusions reached by G. Mac Eoin. Poem composed not later than c. ad 700.

Also incl. Scél as-a:mberar combad hé Find mac Cumaill Mongán, Scél Mongáin and Tucait baile Mongáin.

A comparative study of early Irish and Indian political thought. Irish evidence based on Audacht Morainn, Tecosca Cormaic and De duodecim abusivis.

Appendix: 1. Audacht Morainn (Recension A): edition, translation and notes [critical edition from TCD H 2. 7, YBL and BL Add. 33993]; 2. Audacht Morainn (Recension L): introductory story [text from LL, with translation]; 3. Tecosca Cormaic: notes [variant readings of sections on kingship (accompanied by normalized Old Irish text and English translation)].

Rev. by
J. P. Mallory, in JIES 42/3-4 (Fall/Winter, 2014), pp. 560-562.
Stefan Zimmer, in ZCP 61 (2014), pp. 239-251.

Recension I of Táin bó Cúailnge in Egerton 1782 can be traced indirectly to Lebor na hUidre and Yellow Book of Lecan.

Refutes the view that YBL originates directly from LU, and argues it belongs to a group of MSS deriving from a source independent of LU. A criticism of T. Ó Concheanainn, in Celtica 17 (1985), pp. 73-90, Éigse 16 (1975), pp. 146-162, etc.

Edition of a MIr. poetic version of the preface of De duodecim abusivis saeculi, beg. Dı̄a feasaid lim nodas fuil (4 qq.). Ascr. to Mugrón; text from YBL, with English translation.

Edition with notes and indices (no translation) from MS TCD H 2.16 (YBL), MS RIA 23 P 12 (Book of Ballymote), and MS TCD H 2. 17. Includes passages of verse and roscada omitted from W. Stokes, in RC 24 (1903), pp. 270-287 (Best¹, p. 98).

Offers a tentative text of the conversation between Ailill, Fergus and Medb during the game of fidchell. Restored from MSS RIA 23 E 25, YBL, Egerton 1782 and Maynooth C 1, with Engl. transl. Cf. C. O’Rahilly, Táin bó Cúailnge: recension I (Dublin, 1976), lines 1069-1103.

Edition of Version 1, based on MSS TCD H 2. 16 and TCD H 3. 18; and of Version 2, based on Egerton 1781 and RIA B iv 1; with English translation and notes. Includes an examination of the historical background and literary themes.

Diplomatic text from YBL, cols. 649.47-658.41.

Discusses the poem addressed to Cailleach Dé, daughter of Ó Mannacháin (cf. L. McKenna, Aithdioghluim dána (1939), no. 1 [Best² 1692]).

Edition with notes and indices (no translation) from MS TCD H 2.16 (YBL), MS RIA 23 P 12 (Book of Ballymote), and MS TCD H 2. 17. Includes passages of verse and roscada omitted from W. Stokes, in RC 24 (1903), pp. 270-287 (Best¹, p. 98).

[1.] Manuscript tradition; [2.] Interpolations in D [= MS TCD 1319 (H 2.17)]: The Uí Ruairc material; The Mide material; [3.] How the Cogad came to Bréifne.

Dimplomatic editions of ICC (from MSS TCD 1319 (H 2.17) and 1337 (H 3. 18)) and IDB (from MSS TCD 1363 (H 4.22) and NLI G 7)) with normalised editions, translations and notes. Incl. discussion of language and orthography.

MSS discussed incl. RIA 23 E 25 (LU), 23 P 12 (Book of Ballymote), 23 P 2 (Book of Lecan) (and its nine leaves now contained in TCD MS H 2. 17), D ii 1 (Book of Uí Mhaine) (and its four leaves now contained in Egerton 90); NLI G 1; TCD H 3. 17, E 4.1; Laud Misc. 610; Lost MS E (used by John Lynch).

Six (of a total of twelve) stanzas of poem beg. [Mairg] damsa do dealaigh rut, ed. from MS TCD 1319.

Metaphor of timely repentance.

From MSS TCD H 2. 17, RIA 23 P 12 and UCD Additional 14; with English translation.

Discusses 42 manuscript witnesses to the Táin in four different recensions, ranging from 12th to the 19th centuries, and addresses the circumstances of their compilation.

Edition of a didactic poem (incomplete) listing the verbs that take the particle go rather than gur in the optative subjunctive. From TCD H 2. 17; normalised text with English transl. and full commentary.

Presents an analysis of the ascriptions of the examples cited in the H 2. 17 copy of this tract.

Revises the methodology used to establish the date of composition of FÓ and the Martyrology of Tallaght. Suggests terminus ante quem non of 797 for FÓ. Cf. P. Ó Riain, in CMCS 20 (Winter, 1990), pp. 21-38.

Rev. by
Johan Corthals, in ZCP 58 (2011), pp. 253-254.

Critical edition (omitting final homily in long recension) based on TCD H 3. 18, H 2. 18, and Paris, BNF, MS Fonds celtique et basque Nº 1; includes text of G 9 (supplied separately).

Takes LL’s reading fairrend in q. 2 of Cú Chulainn and Láeg’s laíd as a form of errend ‘mark’ rather than of foirrind ‘spear-point’, and offers a revision of Wh. Stokes translation (in RC 14.423 §39).

1. A note on the Book of Leinster (LL). 2. A pointer to LU-matter in LL. 3. Táin bó Flidais. 4. Cath Cairn Chonaill. 5. Genemain Áeda Sláine. 6. The poem Atchíu fer find firfes cles.

[1.] Cath Maige Mucrama, from LL; [2.] Scéla Éogain, from Laud Misc. 610; [3.] Scéla Moṡauluim, from Laud Misc. 610; [4.] Cath Cinn Abrad from Lecan. With English translation and notes. Appendix: Text of Cath Maige Mucrama from NLI G 7.

Rev. by
J. E. Caerwyn Williams, in StC 14-15 (1979-1980), pp. 451-455.

A comparative study of early Irish and Indian political thought. Irish evidence based on Audacht Morainn, Tecosca Cormaic and De duodecim abusivis.

Appendix: 1. Audacht Morainn (Recension A): edition, translation and notes [critical edition from TCD H 2. 7, YBL and BL Add. 33993]; 2. Audacht Morainn (Recension L): introductory story [text from LL, with translation]; 3. Tecosca Cormaic: notes [variant readings of sections on kingship (accompanied by normalized Old Irish text and English translation)].

Rev. by
J. P. Mallory, in JIES 42/3-4 (Fall/Winter, 2014), pp. 560-562.
Stefan Zimmer, in ZCP 61 (2014), pp. 239-251.

Text restored from MSS TCD H 2. 18 (Book of Leinster) and Harley 5280.

Text (86 qq.) based on LL iv, ll. 28620-28964; with English translation, textual notes and select glossary.
Appendix: Deargrúathar cloinne Morna [text and translation, taken from G. Murphy, Duanaire Finn ii (=ITS 28), pp. 142-152].

Rev. by
Gisbert Hemprich, in ZCP 59 (2012), pp. 316-317.
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, in StH 36 (2009-2010), pp. 219-223.
Lesa Ní Mhunghaile, in ECI 25 (2010), pp. 221-223.
Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill, in Béaloideas 78 (2010), p. 231.

Attempts to reconstruct the first line of a poem on Brug na Bóinne (sometime attr. to Cináed úa hArtacáin), ed. by Lucius Gwynn in Ériu 7.219ff. (cf. Best² 1068a).

Discusses 42 manuscript witnesses to the Táin in four different recensions, ranging from 12th to the 19th centuries, and addresses the circumstances of their compilation.

Studies the organization of the king’s banquet as described in Suidigud Tigi Midchúarta, discussing in particular the carving sequence and the hierarchically distributed cuts of meat: 1. lónchrúachait; 2. leschrúachait; 3. loarg; 4. muc formuin; 5. colpthae; 6. crúachait medóin; 7. cunn; 8. mael; 9. midimir; 10. milgetan; 11. camchnáim; 12. colpthae muc; 13. remor n-imdae; 14. dronn.

beg. Easbach díoth Diarmada Duirghean (incomplete; first seven qq. only); wr. in or shortly after 1171. Transcription and edition (normalized to Early Modern Irish orthography) in parallel text; with English translation and textual notes.

Gilla Ísa Mac Fir Bhisigh (as scribe of certain texts in YBL) had at one time before him Lebar Glinne Dá Locha (Rawlinson B 502) and Lebar Nuachongbála (LL): evidence from the textual tradition of Orgain Denna Ríg and Esnada tige Buchet.

On the textual history of the Middle Irish catalogues of tales; argues that through the analysis of the alliterative structure of recension A the nature and contents of the lost archetype (P. Mac Cana’s O) can be retrieved.

App. contains text of list A from P. Mac Cana, The learned tales of medieval Ireland, pp. 41–49.

Investigates the compilation of LL, focusing on the identity of bishop Find of Kildare and on the claim by Aed mac Crimthainn to the title of comarba Coluim, and argues in favour of Kildare as the place where it was produced.

The four MSS, Lebor na hUidre, Book of Leinster, NLI G 4, and NLS Adv. 72.1.40, represent three recensions. Includes 4.(i) Patrons and men of learning in North Connacht, 4.(ii) Leinster MSS in N. Connacht.

Argues that reddening (imdergad) and eruption of steam (dé) are connected with an Irish hagiographical motif, and that their attribution to Niall is politically motivated.

Eclectic critical edition based on an examination of 33 MSS witnesses, which are divided in three main recensions represented by their oldest MSS: RIA 23 N 10, YBL and LL. Text normalized to Class. OIr. spelling, with order of sections and sequence of maxims following that of RIA 23 N 10; with variants from the oldest nine MSS, facing Engl. transl., textual and linguistic notes. Additional texts given in Appendices: 1. §8 Cía fégam ránac; 2. §9 Secht comarthai déc; 3. Y₁: diplomatic edition; 4. L₁: diplomatic edition; 5. N₁: diplomatic edition and collation with Y₁ and L₁.

Rev. by
John Hudson, in Medium aevum 70/1 (2001), pp. 177-178 [short notice].
Nicolas Jacobs, in CMCS 40 (Winter, 2000), pp. 88-90.
Caoimhín Ó Muirigh, in Peritia 15 (2001), pp. 432-434.
Pádraig P. Ó Néill, in Éigse 35 (2005), pp. 173-174.
David Stifter, in Die Sprache 40/1 (1998), pp. 123-128.

1. The metrical Banshenchas (composed by Gilla Mo-Dutu Ó Caiside in 1147); 2. The prose Banshenchas (archetype composed c. 1147-69). MB found in 4 MSS: TCD 1339 (H 2.18; LL), RIA D ii 1 (Bk of Uí Mhaine), NLI G 3, RIA 23 P 2 (Bk of Lecan); 8 copies of PB found in MSS: RIA 23 P 2 (Bk of Lecan), RIA 23 P 12 (Bk of Ballymote), RIA D ii 1 (Bk of Uí Mhaine), Brussels 2542-3, NLS Adv. 72.1.7, TCD H 3. 17.

Argues, through the analysis of characters, chronology and contents, that the tale-list is arranged in two fivefold groups, each constituting a single narrative of identical plot.

Vol. 6. Edited by Anne O’Sullivan. 1983. pp xv + 1327-1708.
Cf. BILL 697.

Rev. by
Máire Herbert, in Éigse 22 (1987), pp. 166-168 (Vol. 6).
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 22 (1985), p. 380 (Vol. 6).
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, in StH 24 (1988), pp. 190-197 (Vol. 6).
Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Peritia 4 (1985), pp. 390-395 (Vol. 6).
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 41 (1986), p. 324 (Vol. 6).

Examines the poem Mór cóir cháich ar chrích Laighion, and argues that its composer derived (directly or indirectly) much of its historical and genealogical materials from entries in the Book of Leinster (Lecht Cormaic meic Culennain, Echta Lagen for Leth Cuind and Secht ṁbémmend tuc Brandub for Brega).

Poem beg. Ba haprainn nan dáil cu Artrig n-arnac, ed. with transl. and notes from MSS RIA 23 N 10 and LL. Incl. discussion of metre, style and ling. dating.

Edition and translation of the Book of Leinster version.

Parallel edition of the LL and Egerton 1782 texts; with German translation, textual notes, glossary, and a discussion (in pp. 62-78) of OIr. cophur. Includes facsimiles.

Rev. by
Patrizia de Bernardo, in ZCP 37 (1979), pp. 303-306.
Liam Breatnach, in Kratylos 25 (1980 [1981]), pp. 228-230.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 19 (1982), pp. 396-397.
Brian Ó Cuív, in Celtica 15 (1983), 175-176.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in IF 88 (1983), pp. 337-340.

On the insertion of Pope Adrian’s bull Laudabiliter (1155) into LL.

Incl. diplomatic editions of the following 21 poems, ed. variously from MSS Rawlinson B 502, TCD H 2. 18 (LL), RIA 23 P 12 (Book of Ballymote), RIA 23 P 2 (Book of Lecan) and TCD H 3.17 (last poem only): Móen óen, Dind ríg, Ni celt ceis, Lug scéith, Mál ad-rualaid, Eochu Ferngen, Baeth buide, Find Taulcha, Trí meic Ruaid, Cathair coem, Doss dáile, Coeca fichet filed, Án grian, Mára galgata, Mára mairb, Lámair lergga, Línais Nia, Már drecuin, Lia láma, Eochu art, Na tri Fothaid.

Offers an exhaustive linguistic analysis of the Middle Irish text Cath Ruis na Ríg, contained in the Book of Leinster. Appendix contains a complete collection of verbal forms.

Provides detailed palaeographical descriptions of the principal hands of this manuscript.

Catalogue and diplomatic text of later marginal entries with notes.

Examines the early (or ‘Book of Leinster’) and modern Irish versions of Cath Ruis na Ríg, and argues that the former is an entirely new version of an existing tale from which the superior latter version is derived. It is suggested that the author’s (an LL compiler) intention in reworking that archetype was to bestow greater prominence upon Conall Cernach.

An analysis of the two versions of the prose dindshenchas relating to Irarus. Supplies semidiplomatic edition of the Rennes and LL texts, with variants from H 3. 3 and the Book of Lecan. Includes a discussion of the obscure word erus.

Dindgnai Temrach (transl. from the Book of Leinster).

Studies the early modern Irish poems contained in the later versions of Aided Con Culainn. Furthermore, argues that these may preserve the rosc missing in LL at line 13977.

A discussion of this genealogical treatise; includes transcripts from the six extant manuscript witnesses.

Discusses textual correspondences in Middle Irish Ulster tales, with particular reference to the Book of Leinster and Edinburgh versions of Cath Ruis na Ríg.

Edition of a 12th c. dinnṡenchas poem by Áed Ollbarr Úa Carthaig on the origin of the names Connachta and Mag nAí. Text from LL and Uí Maine with English translation and textual notes.

1. Introduction; 2. The textual tradition of Rec. II [of TBC in LL]; Non-historical ro, dos-, ros-, rita-; 4. (Im)mus-; 5. The prefix im/fo; 6. The prefix con; 7. Con for co n-; 8. The origin of late preverbs and particles.

Studies the relationship between the Laigin genealogies in the additional material stored together with MS TCD H 2. 18 (= sections Q, R and S as ed. by R. Atkinson 1880 [Best¹, p. 65]) and the textual tradition of Cóir anmann, arguing that the Laigin genealogies were expanded using the longest version of Cóir anmann, which in turn had as a source a genealogical treatise similar to the 12th c. texts. Includes a transcription of the corresponding passages.

Examines the mutual relationship of all the extant manuscript witnesses (Book of Leinster; RIA 23 N 10, 23 O 48, C i 2 and D iv 2; NLS 72.1.5 and 72.1.40; Laud Misc. 610).

Elaborates on the proposition that the so-called “pillow talk” between Medb and Ailill in TBC–LL alluded to the succession conflict between the Empress Matilda and Stephen of Blois.

Transcription and discussion of list of early stratum of Irish days of the week from MS Oxford, St. John’s College 17 with accompanying plate: dies scrol, Diu luna, Diu mart, Diu iath, Diu ethamon, Diu triach, Di satur[n]. Some discussion of archaic OIr. form díu ‘day’. Suggests these names could be as old as the 6th c. Appendix: poem beg. Secht meic áille Oéngusa (9 qq.), ed. from the Book of Leinster with English translation and notes.

Repr. in D. Ó Cróinín, Early Irish history and chronology, pp. 7-27.

Studies the orthography, language and style of Táin bó Cúailnge recension II and Cath Ruis na Ríg, with the aim of discussing their date of composition and authorship.

Nı̄ba mē / linfes do neoch dara thráth. 9 qq., preceded by a prologue containing prose and 2 additional qq. (beg. M’aiti-si fíal Finngaine). Edited from LL, Rawl. B 512, H 3. 18, Bodl. Ir. d. 5. Reconstructed text, diplomatic transcriptions, English translation, textual notes.

Second, revised edition. Supersedes 1st Engl. ed., 2015 (= IBK-NF, 10).

Critical edition based on all MSS (LL, YBL, Eg. 1782, NLS Gaelic XL, H 3. 18).

Variorum edition with Engl. transl. and notes of poem beg. Manib do liïc (9 ll.), which appears in two of the accounts of how Táin bó Cuailnge was rescued from oblivion. Ed. from MSS LL and RIA D iv 2.

(1) A poem included in the Martyrology of Tallaght, beg. Énlaith betha bríg cen táir, from p. 356 (Franciscan MS A3, p. 2); (2) ad q. 6 of Ogum i llía, lía úas lecht, from p. 154a, with English translation of the full poem.

Discusses two collections of poems on the subject of the province of Leinster, found in Rawl. B 502 and LL.

Engl. transl. of 2009 2nd rev. Ger. ed. (= IBK-S, 130), further revised and augmented. Superseded by 2nd, rev. ed., 2019 (= IBK-NF, 18).

Critical edition based on all MSS (LL, YBL, Eg. 1782, NLS Gaelic XL, H 3. 18).

On the warning given by Cú Chulainn’s mantle in LL; cf. Aided Con Culainn (Comp. Con Cul. § 22).

Edition of the rosc passage at lines 957-962 of Táin bó Cúailnge (as ed. by C. O’Rahily, 1976), beg. In fitir in dub. Reconstructed from MSS Maynooth C 1, YBL, LL, LU, Stowe Missal; with English translation and textual notes.

On the section of the Book of Leinster now classed as Franciscan A 3.

Study edition. Text A, based on the mss. witnesses (LL,H 3. 18, Harley 5280 and Rawlinson B 512); Text B, normalized to Old Irish standard.

Rev. by
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 47 (2021), pp. 258-259.
Emanuela Sanfelici, in JCL 23 (2022), pp. 162-176.

From the Book of Leinster 189^a3-189^b36. With English translation and notes. Includes some discussion and rhythmical analysis of ‘identification scenes’.

Discusses the method of work of scribes, with special regard to the Book of Leinster.

Discusses the selection of metres exemplified in Cellach úa Rúanada’s poem. Includes normalized text (based on LL), metrical analysis, textual notes and manuscript texts.

An analysis of the two versions of the prose dindshenchas relating to Irarus. Supplies semidiplomatic edition of the Rennes and LL texts, with variants from H 3. 3 and the Book of Lecan. Includes a discussion of the obscure word erus.

beg. Caur croder cét n-ilach, attributed to Móen mac Etna. Reconstructed text (based on Ballymote, H 3. 3, Lecan, Uí Mhaine, Rennes 598, RIA D ii 2 and RIA B iii 1), with discussion, translation, and textual notes.

Edition of the ‘long version’, based on TCD H 3. 17. Diplomatic text, with English translation and notes.

Rev. by
Gisbert Hemprich, in ZCP 59 (2012), pp. 231-233.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 38 (2012), pp. 336-337.
Gerald Manning, in StH 35 (2008-2009), pp. 237-239.
Paul Russell, in Peritia 20 (2008), pp. 397-402.

App. 1: Concordance of the O’Curry and O’Donovan law transcripts with CIH; App. 2: Bretha Éitgid from Royal Irish Academy MS D v 2 [Text of version Ai omitted from CIH]; App. 3: From TCD MS H 3. 17 (6) [Text of passages omitted (a) before CIH vi 2128.18 and (b) between CIH vi 2128.25-26]; App. 4: From TCD MS H 3. 18 (1) [Text of legal fragments omitted from CIH]; App. 5: From TCD MS H 3. 18 (21) [Text of legal fragment omitted from CIH]; App. 6: From National Library of Ireland MS G138 [Text of a legal miscellany omitted from CIH] ; App. 7: From Royal Irish Academy MS 23 Q 12 [Text of legal fragments omitted from CIH].

Rev. by
Paul Russell, in StC 41 (2007), pp. 249-251.
Neil McLeod, A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, in Peritia 19 (2005), pp. 136-163.
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, in StH 34 (2006-2007), pp. 193-195.
Dagmar S. Wodtko, in ZCP 57 (2009-2010), pp. 181-182.

Draws attention to a previously unpublished Middle Irish text on pre-Patrician judges and poets in UCD-OFM MS A 9 (transcription and translation provided), and compares it with a version in TCD MS H 3. 17.

1. The metrical Banshenchas (composed by Gilla Mo-Dutu Ó Caiside in 1147); 2. The prose Banshenchas (archetype composed c. 1147-69). MB found in 4 MSS: TCD 1339 (H 2.18; LL), RIA D ii 1 (Bk of Uí Mhaine), NLI G 3, RIA 23 P 2 (Bk of Lecan); 8 copies of PB found in MSS: RIA 23 P 2 (Bk of Lecan), RIA 23 P 12 (Bk of Ballymote), RIA D ii 1 (Bk of Uí Mhaine), Brussels 2542-3, NLS Adv. 72.1.7, TCD H 3. 17.

Incl. diplomatic editions of the following 21 poems, ed. variously from MSS Rawlinson B 502, TCD H 2. 18 (LL), RIA 23 P 12 (Book of Ballymote), RIA 23 P 2 (Book of Lecan) and TCD H 3.17 (last poem only): Móen óen, Dind ríg, Ni celt ceis, Lug scéith, Mál ad-rualaid, Eochu Ferngen, Baeth buide, Find Taulcha, Trí meic Ruaid, Cathair coem, Doss dáile, Coeca fichet filed, Án grian, Mára galgata, Mára mairb, Lámair lergga, Línais Nia, Már drecuin, Lia láma, Eochu art, Na tri Fothaid.

MS TCD H 3. 17, cols 852-55, 864-75 share distinctive features with Laud Misc. 610, ff 59-72r, 123-46, which were written for Sémus mac Sémuis Buitillér (†1452), the fourth or ‘White’ Earl of Ormond. Includes two plates, one from each MS.

Discusses the genealogical tract entitled Duchusaich Corco Laidi so, from the Book of Lecan; with Commentary on the tuatha and place-names, Alphabetical list of surnames in the tract. In Appendix: The other manuscript recensions [Book of Ballymote, H 3. 17, Book of Uí Maine].

Edition, with translation and notes, from TCD H 3. 18, H 3. 17, Harley 432, and Lebor na hUidre. Appendix 1 contains an edition from MS TCD H 3. 17 of a passage concerning Dubthach’s judgement (with translation and notes); Appendix 2 contains an edition from MS Harley 432 of the retelling of a story concerning the killing of Patrick’s charioteer, Odrán (with translation and notes). Cf. J. Carey, in CMCS 19 (Summer, 1990), pp. 1-18.

Ascribed to Fachtna mac Sencha; beg. Forda-midiur trí dírniu arrae ar téora ferba fíra. Critical edition, from MSS TCD H 3. 17, H 3. 18, and Rawlinson B 502; with English translation, textual notes, and discussion of the textual transmission.

Diplomatic edition of the early Irish law tracts in manuscripts from the professional schools: MSS TCD H 2.12 (8iii), H 2. 15A, H 2. 15B, H 2. 16, H 3. 17, H 3. 18, H 4. 22, H 5. 15, E 3. 3, E 3. 5; RIA 23 P 12, 23 Q 6, 23 P 3, C i 2; Rawlinson B 487, Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 506; Harley 432, Egerton 88, Egerton 90, Nero A 7, Add. 4783; NLI G 3, G 11; Copenhagen 261B.

Vol. I. 1978. xxviii + 337.
Vol. II. 1978. 339-744.
Vol. III. 1978. 745-1138.
Vol. IV. 1978. 1139-1531.
Vol. V. 1978. 1532-1925.
Vol. VI. 1978. 1926-2343.

Introductory matter (i-xxviii) also separ. publ.

Rev. by
Liam Breatnach, Aidan Breen and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 382-438.
T. M. Charles Edwards, in StH 20 (1980), pp. 141-162.

Discusses the qualities and entitlements of the saer; draws particularly on a legal text dealing with the refection and fees due to craftsmen (= CIH vi 2107.36-2108.23; with English translation).

MSS discussed incl. RIA 23 E 25 (LU), 23 P 12 (Book of Ballymote), 23 P 2 (Book of Lecan) (and its nine leaves now contained in TCD MS H 2. 17), D ii 1 (Book of Uí Mhaine) (and its four leaves now contained in Egerton 90); NLI G 1; TCD H 3. 17, E 4.1; Laud Misc. 610; Lost MS E (used by John Lynch).

Edition based on the four primary witnesses: H 2. 15a (= A), H 3. 17 (= B), H 3. 18 (= C), Rawl. B 506 (= D).

1. Introduction; 2. Normalized OIr. text without glosses; with English translation and notes; 3. Diplomatic edition of A (complete text, glosses, commentary) with English translation and notes; 4. Text of B (text and commentary, incomplete) with English translation and notes; 5. Text of C (Old Irish glossing); 6. Text of D (late MIr. or EModIr. revision of commentary). Bibliography, Indexes.

In Appendices: 1. Orthography and edition; 2. Extracts in O’Davoren’s Glossary and Digests B and C; 3. Cor dá ṡochonn; 4. The order of the extracts in MCSM; 5. Corrigenda to CIH; 6. Tracts of Senchas már.

Rev. by
Dorothy Africa, in Eolas 11 (2018), pp. 131-132.
Thomas Charles-Edwards, in ZCP 67 (2020), pp. 175-196.
Johan Corthals, in CMCS 76 (Winter, 2018), pp. 108-109.
Kevin Murray, in StH 46 (2020), pp. 135-143.
Fangzhe Qiu, in Speculum 94/3 (Jul., 2019), pp. 811-813.
David Stifter, in Celtica 31 (2019), pp. 298-307.
Catherine Swift, in NMAJ 58 (2018), pp. 146-149.

Normalised edition with variants based mainly on MS TCD H 2. 15A (also TCD H 3. 18, H 3. 17, H 2.12 (8iii); Egerton 88; RIA 23 Q 6; Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 487); with English translations and notes. Commentaries from MSS TCD H 2. 15A, H 3. 17, H 3. 18 and Egerton 88 printed with English translations in Apps. 1–4. App. 5 contains restored text with English translations of an Old Irish passage on Caithchi Bech ‘trespass-penalties of bees’, based on MSS TCD E 3. 5 and H 3. 18. App. 6 contains a normalised version of an Old Irish passage on Athgabál Bech ‘distraint of bees’, based on D. A Binchy’s edition, in Celtica 10 (1973), pp. 72–86 (§11), from MS TCD H 3. 18. App. 7 contains some of the Welsh material relating to bees.

Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 21 (1984), pp. 361-362.
Kim R. McCone, in CMCS 8 (Winter, 1984), pp. 45-50.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in Éigse 21 (1986), pp. 241-243.
Morfydd Owen, in StC 20-21 (1985-1986), pp. 276-278.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 41 (1986), pp. 322-324.

Beg. Tráchtad ann so arna tharrang a crúadchorp Gaodhailge; edited from MS TCD H 3. 18 (= CIH ii 691.1-699.4); dated to late 13th or early 14th c.

Introduction; Normalised text [in early modern Irish orthography] and translation; Diplomatic text [of complete version in MS H 3. 18 (= A), as well as eight fragments identified as part of this treatise (= B–I)]; Notes; Glossary; Index; Bibliography.

Rev. by
Jenny Benham, in Speculum 97/1 (Jan., 2022), pp. 205-206.
Eamon Darcy, in StH 47 (2021), pp. 170-172.
Pádraig Ó Macháin, in Béascna 12 (2022), pp. 138-143.

On the textual history of the Middle Irish catalogues of tales; argues that through the analysis of the alliterative structure of recension A the nature and contents of the lost archetype (P. Mac Cana’s O) can be retrieved.

App. contains text of list A from P. Mac Cana, The learned tales of medieval Ireland, pp. 41–49.

Edition and translation of a text concerning the naming of the seven sons of Medb and Ailill, possibly excerpted from a version of Cath Bóinde. Semi-diplomatic text from MS TCD H 3. 17, with textual notes and English translation (diplomatic text in Appendix).

Edition of the text (omitted by R. Thurneysen, in Best² 1196) from a new collation of MS TCD H 3. 17, with transl. and textual notes. Supersedes J. Corthals, Kelten 4 (1999), 4-5.

Edition of an Old Irish legal text (c. 700). Provides diplomatic texts from Rawlinson B 512, BL Harley 5280 and TCD H 3. 17, and a critical edition based on Rawlinson; with English translation and textual notes.

Specially on the interrelationship of the three extant recensions.

Discusses the language and the origin of a story found in MS TCD H 3. 17, cols. 858-859; with English translation.

Emphasises the role of the O’Doran legal family in the transmission of the Prologue on the grounds of their association with the main text in MS Harley 432.

I. The heroic biography; II. Cormac mac Airt; III. Scéla Éogain ⁊ Cormaic [critical edition based on Laud Misc. 610 with readings from TCD H 3. 17; normalized text, with English translation and notes].

Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 21 (1984), pp. 360-361.
Patrick K. Ford, in Speculum 54/4 (Oct., 1979), pp 836-839.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in Éigse 17/4 (Geimhreadh, 1978-1979), p. 557-562.
J. E. Caerwyn Williams, in StC 14-15 (1979-1980), pp. 451-455.

Diplomatic edition of the early Irish law tracts in manuscripts from the professional schools: MSS TCD H 2.12 (8iii), H 2. 15A, H 2. 15B, H 2. 16, H 3. 17, H 3. 18, H 4. 22, H 5. 15, E 3. 3, E 3. 5; RIA 23 P 12, 23 Q 6, 23 P 3, C i 2; Rawlinson B 487, Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 506; Harley 432, Egerton 88, Egerton 90, Nero A 7, Add. 4783; NLI G 3, G 11; Copenhagen 261B.

Vol. I. 1978. xxviii + 337.
Vol. II. 1978. 339-744.
Vol. III. 1978. 745-1138.
Vol. IV. 1978. 1139-1531.
Vol. V. 1978. 1532-1925.
Vol. VI. 1978. 1926-2343.

Introductory matter (i-xxviii) also separ. publ.

Rev. by
Liam Breatnach, Aidan Breen and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 382-438.
T. M. Charles Edwards, in StH 20 (1980), pp. 141-162.

From TCD MS H 3. 18. Includes poem (4qq.) Oidh ar huilleth n-oīsmentai, with a discussion of the metre aí ḟresligi; with English translation and notes. Cf. K. Meyer’s edition (in ZCP 7.304 [Best¹, p. 122]).

Critical edition (omitting final homily in long recension) based on TCD H 3. 18, H 2. 18, and Paris, BNF, MS Fonds celtique et basque Nº 1; includes text of G 9 (supplied separately).

Gives a biographical account of Tadhg (mac Gearóid) Ó Rodaighe and offers a survey of the MSS in which Ó Rodaighe wrote one or more sections, of the MSS parts of which were copied from MSS written by Tadhg, and of the MSS that are thought to have been for some time in the possession of Tadhg. From these MSS materials (mainly TCD H 6. 15) twenty four poems, either by or directly concerning Tadhg Ó Rodaighe, are edited with translation, manuscript readings, metrical analysis, and textual notes.

[1.] By Tadhg Ó Rodaighe: (i) (Tugas tuile tromghráidh duit; (ii) Binn le neach a mholadh féin); [2.] in praise of Tadhg and his family: (iii) Beannacht uaim ó rún croidhe, by Seaan Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (iv) Niamhadh na huaisle an eagna, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (v) A fhir thaistil chríche Cuinn, by Pádraig Óg Mac an Bhaird; (vi) Truagh an mhaidhmsi ar mhaicne hÍr, by Seaan Ó Duinnín; (vii) Barr orchra ar fhréimh Rosa, authorship unknown; (viii) Barr orchra aicme Rosa, authorship unknown; (ix) Lúireach Chríost fa chosaibh Thaidhg, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (x) A mhic Gearóid an ghlóir ghloin, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xi) Fíorchrádh d’Éirinn turas Taidhg, by Diarmaid mac Laoisioch Mac an Bhaird; (xii) Cá dream is fhearr ná sliocht Ír?, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xiii) In ainm Chríost an ceangalso, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xiv) Cinnim comhairle le Dia, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xv) An chraobh chumhra uaim don tsaoi, by Séafraidh Ó Ruairc; (xvi) Deirbhshiúr don uaisle an eagna, by An tAthair Pádraig (or Cornán Óg) Ó Coirnín mac Cornáin; (xvii) Slán fa éirghe Eilíse, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xviii) Mó ná mionca triail go Tadhg, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xix) Uaibh mo théarnodh, a Thaidhg chroidhe, authorship unknown; (xx) Is gnáth dhá naomhadh Síol Róigh, authorship unknown; [3.] topics in which Ó Rodaighe manifested interest: (xxi) Comhnaigh, a Chríost, um chroidhe (Laoi na mBuadh), attributed to Colm Cille; (xxii) Aithne dhamh gach meirge mór (Suaitheantas Chloinne Iosrael), authorship unknown; [4.] poems concerning Tadhg mac Taidhg Uí Rodaighe: (xxiii) Maith, trá, do thoigheacht, a Thaidhg, by Fearghal Muimhneach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (xxiv) Aoinsciath chosnaimh na gceall, by Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin.

Discusses Giolla na Naomh’s legal treatise, beg. Trachtad ann so arna tarrang a cruadhcorp gaodhailgi, found in TCD MS H 3. 18 (= CIH ii 691.1-699.4).

Contains a separate edition of each recension. Recension A: text based on TCD H 3. 18; with English translation and notes. Recension B: text from BL Additional 30512; with English translation and notes. Appendix: Sé bruidhne Érenn, from Harley 5280 f. 49v.

Rev. by
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 39 (2013), pp. 324-326.
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, in Éigse 37 (2010), pp. 169-174.

Semi-diplomatic edition, with English translation, of the eschatological section of Immacallam in dá thúarad from TCD MS H 3. 18.

Texts include: (chap. 2) An Old Irish tract on satire [beg. Cis lir fodlai aíre, reconstructed from Book of Ballymote, Book of Uí Maine and NLS Gaelic 1; with English translation, manuscript readings and notes, and including the text of a shorter version found in TCD H 3. 18]; (chap. 3) The Old Irish heptad on satire [no. 33, beg. A-táat secht cenéla aíre le Féniu; restored text based on Rawl. B 487 and TCD H 3. 18, followed by diplomatic text of the glosses and commentary in Rawl. B 487; with English translation and notes]; (chap. 4) A miscellany of medieval Irish satires [an edition of the satires cited in Mittelirische Verslehren III (ed. by R. Thurneysen 1891 [Best¹, p. 53]); 86 poems, normalized from the six extant witnesses, with linguistic and metrical analysis, manuscript readings, English translation and notes].

Rev. by
Johan Corthals, in Éigse 37 (2010), pp 174-178.
G. R. Isaac, in JGAHS 62 (2010), pp. 215-216.
Riita Latvio, in SCF 6 (2009), pp. 83-86.
Gerald Manning, in StH 36 (2009-2010), pp. 211-215.
Feargal Ó Béarra, in Béaloideas 77 (2009), pp. 132-134.
S. Ó D., in Clogher record 20/1 (2009), pp. 160-164.
Simon Rodway, in CMCS 62 (Winter, 2011), pp. 94-97.
Paul Russell, in ÉtC 38 (2012), pp. 324-326.
Robin Chapman Stacey, in Speculum 86/3 (Jul., 2011), pp. 785-786.

Studies the interrelationship of the ‘shorter’ and ‘longer’ recensions, as well as the position of the NLI G 2 version in the stemma codicum.

Text based on TCD H 3. 18, with English translation and textual notes.

Four paper leaves in MS TCD H 3. 18 (part ii) are part of the remains of the Scottish poet-historian Cathal Mac M. Includes edition of the latter’s poem, first line Saoth liom do chor, a Cholla, with Engl. transl. and notes.

Normalised edition with variants based mainly on MS TCD H 2. 15A (also TCD H 3. 18, H 3. 17, H 2.12 (8iii); Egerton 88; RIA 23 Q 6; Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 487); with English translations and notes. Commentaries from MSS TCD H 2. 15A, H 3. 17, H 3. 18 and Egerton 88 printed with English translations in Apps. 1–4. App. 5 contains restored text with English translations of an Old Irish passage on Caithchi Bech ‘trespass-penalties of bees’, based on MSS TCD E 3. 5 and H 3. 18. App. 6 contains a normalised version of an Old Irish passage on Athgabál Bech ‘distraint of bees’, based on D. A Binchy’s edition, in Celtica 10 (1973), pp. 72–86 (§11), from MS TCD H 3. 18. App. 7 contains some of the Welsh material relating to bees.

Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 21 (1984), pp. 361-362.
Kim R. McCone, in CMCS 8 (Winter, 1984), pp. 45-50.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in Éigse 21 (1986), pp. 241-243.
Morfydd Owen, in StC 20-21 (1985-1986), pp. 276-278.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 41 (1986), pp. 322-324.

From TCD H 3. 18.

Edition based on the four primary witnesses: H 2. 15a (= A), H 3. 17 (= B), H 3. 18 (= C), Rawl. B 506 (= D).

1. Introduction; 2. Normalized OIr. text without glosses; with English translation and notes; 3. Diplomatic edition of A (complete text, glosses, commentary) with English translation and notes; 4. Text of B (text and commentary, incomplete) with English translation and notes; 5. Text of C (Old Irish glossing); 6. Text of D (late MIr. or EModIr. revision of commentary). Bibliography, Indexes.

In Appendices: 1. Orthography and edition; 2. Extracts in O’Davoren’s Glossary and Digests B and C; 3. Cor dá ṡochonn; 4. The order of the extracts in MCSM; 5. Corrigenda to CIH; 6. Tracts of Senchas már.

Rev. by
Dorothy Africa, in Eolas 11 (2018), pp. 131-132.
Thomas Charles-Edwards, in ZCP 67 (2020), pp. 175-196.
Johan Corthals, in CMCS 76 (Winter, 2018), pp. 108-109.
Kevin Murray, in StH 46 (2020), pp. 135-143.
Fangzhe Qiu, in Speculum 94/3 (Jul., 2019), pp. 811-813.
David Stifter, in Celtica 31 (2019), pp. 298-307.
Catherine Swift, in NMAJ 58 (2018), pp. 146-149.

Begins: Ni hada dom anmaim, text from Egerton 88, TCD H 2. 16 and TCD H 3. 18.

Poem beg. Tadg O Cearbhaill ar gceann sluaigh ed. from TCD MS H 3. 18, accompanied by a related quatrain beg. Mile bliadhan is cúig céd from RIA MS 23 Q 6, with translation and notes.

App. 1: Concordance of the O’Curry and O’Donovan law transcripts with CIH; App. 2: Bretha Éitgid from Royal Irish Academy MS D v 2 [Text of version Ai omitted from CIH]; App. 3: From TCD MS H 3. 17 (6) [Text of passages omitted (a) before CIH vi 2128.18 and (b) between CIH vi 2128.25-26]; App. 4: From TCD MS H 3. 18 (1) [Text of legal fragments omitted from CIH]; App. 5: From TCD MS H 3. 18 (21) [Text of legal fragment omitted from CIH]; App. 6: From National Library of Ireland MS G138 [Text of a legal miscellany omitted from CIH] ; App. 7: From Royal Irish Academy MS 23 Q 12 [Text of legal fragments omitted from CIH].

Rev. by
Paul Russell, in StC 41 (2007), pp. 249-251.
Neil McLeod, A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, in Peritia 19 (2005), pp. 136-163.
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, in StH 34 (2006-2007), pp. 193-195.
Dagmar S. Wodtko, in ZCP 57 (2009-2010), pp. 181-182.

Discusses the H 3. 18 version of the tract on the ‘divisions of imchomarc’.

[1] Text of Ó Duibhgeannáin document (beg. Labhram ann so mar do rinne Coluim Cille síth […] from MS London, Lambeth Carew 621, wr. in 1618 by Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin; with the contemporary Engl. transl.); [2] Text of Mac Domhnaill genealogy (from MS London, Lambeth Carew 635, written, not earlier than 1618, by Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh); [3] Verses on the second Earl of Antrim (fragm. of four quatrains in MS TCD H 3. 18, wr. by Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh; beg. Ainmnigh ria ccách ceann a ccionn, with Engl. transl.); [4] An Ó Gnímh genealogy (comparison of entries in MSS RIA E iv 4, D i 3 and 23 M 17, and Dubhaltach Mac Fir Bhisigh’s ‘Abstract’ of genealogies in MSS RIA 24 N 2 and Maynooth B 8; with a geneal. table).

Argues that LU stands closer to the original Cín Dromma Snechtai texts than MSS Egerton 88 and Dublin, RIA 23 N 10, as it was the direct source of Gilla Commáin Ó Congaláin’s (†1135) selection whence the Connacht MS tradition comes.

I. ceimesdin/cemeas [Corm. LB 10.31; H 3. 18, 67c36 = CIH ii 611.12 (Dúil Dromma Cetta)] ; II. ord [Corm. Y 1030]; III. minarba [Corm. Y 901]; IV. bíail [Corm. Y 126]; V. rot [Corm. Y 1120]; VI. loscuirn [Corm. Y 838]; VII. bradán [Corm. Y 158]; VIII. lon [H 3. 18, 76a36 = CIH ii 622.31].

Edited from MSS RIA 23 E 25 (Lebor na hUidre), RIA 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), TCD H 3. 18, Laud Misc. 610, and Rawlinson B 512. With translation and notes.

1. The medieval poem, beg. Is trúag in ces i mbiam (8 qq.), ed. with transl. and notes from MSS TCD H 3. 18, TCD H 4. 22, and Brussels 20978–9; 2. A late (eighteenth-century?) adaptation of the Latin Easter hymn L’aleluya du jour de Pasques (composed by the Franciscan, Jean Tisserand, ob. 1494). Poem beg. A aonmhic Dé do céasadh thrínn (14 qq.); ed. with transl. and notes from MS NLI G 663. Latin text from Liber Usualis, beg. O filii et filiae (12 qq.).

Also incl. Scél as-a:mberar combad hé Find mac Cumaill Mongán, Scél Mongáin and Tucait baile Mongáin.

Beg. Cis lir cenela airechta dochusin la Féniu, from TCD MS H 3. 18 (= CIH ii 601.20-602.4); with English translation and notes.

Introduction, text [from Leabhar Breac, with variants from H 3. 18], notes, glossary, indexes. In Appendix: The language.

Rev. by
Marged Haycock, in StC 26-27 (1991-1992), pp. 281-283.
A. J. Hughes, in SAM 14/1 (1990), pp. 255-256.
John T. Koch, in Speculum 68/1 (Jan., 1993): 178-180.
P.-Y. Lambert, in ÉtC 30 (1994), pp. 328-329.
Gearóid Mac Eoin, in ZCP 48 (1996), pp. 324-330.

Eight stanzas assembled from quotations in various texts. Authorship of Colmán ua Cluasaig (7th cent.) rejected. Three separate parts distinguished; linguistically dated to 10th/11th centuries. First line Marbh friom andes marbh antuaidh. Variorum edition, with Engl. transl. and notes. Based on MSS Brussels 5301-20; Rawlinson B 503, RIA C iii 3; Harley 5280; TCD H 2. 16 (YBL); RIA D ii 1 (Book of Uí Maine); RIA 23 P 16 (Leabhar Breac), TCD H 3. 18.

Discusses the numerical correspondences used in the ‘apple scene’ of the Irish narrative, and examines their parallels with those mentioned in the fourth book of the Anglo-Saxon Handbook. Appendixes contain (1) the two versions of the Irish text (RIA MS 23 P 16 and TCD MS H 3. 18), with English translation, and (2) the relevant passages of Byrhtferth (Latin text with English translation).

A study of the tract Cóic conara fugill. Includes a French translation of versions Rawlinson B 502 (= CIH vi 2200-2203), Egerton 88 (= CIH iv 1280.1-1282.23) and H 3. 18 (= CIH iii 1027.21-1041.38), with notes.

Rev. by
Christian Lauronson-Rosaz, in Peritia 21 (2010), pp. 307-310.
Paul Russell, in ÉtC 37 (2011), pp. 219-222.

Presents (i) a critical edition of O’Mulconry’s glossary based on YBL, with manuscript variants and translation, and (ii) an edition of the closely related glossary known as ‘Irsan’ from H 3. 18/4, with translation. With Introduction, Combined commentary, Bibliography, Indexes.

Rev. by
Johan Corthals, in ZCP 67 (2020), pp. 239-243.
Deborah Hayden, in Speculum 95/4 (Oct., 2020), pp. 1206-1207.
Chantal Kobel, in SCF 17 (2020-2021), pp. 15-19.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 46 (2020), pp. 277-280.
Thomas O’Loughlin, in Celtica 32 (2020), pp. 272-274.
Erich Poppe, in CMCS 80 (Winter, 2020), pp. 87-90.

Edition, normalised to early Old Irish standard, of a poem beg. Marb friumm andess, marb atúaid (8 qq.) with translation and commentary. Based on MSS Brussels 5301–20; Rawlinson B 503; RIA C iii 3; Harley 5280; Yellow Book of Lecan; Book of Uí Mhaine; Leabhar Breac; TCD H 3. 18: for apparatus criticus, see G. S. Mac Eoin, The Lament for Cuimine Fota, in Ériu 28 (1977), pp. 17-31. Disagrees with some of the conclusions reached by G. Mac Eoin. Poem composed not later than c. ad 700.

Investigates the textual history of Dúil Dromma Cetta and examines the relationship of this text to Sanas Cormaic.

Appendix 1 contains (a) a transcription of the legible parts of Egerton 1782 fol. 15 and (b) a transcription of TCD H 1. 13 pp. 361-362; Appendix 2 contains a sample concordance to Dúil Dromma Cetta.

On a brief passage containing a reference to Seth and the daughters of Adam and a riddle concerning the location of hell, found in TCD MS H 3. 18 42a 34-36.

Beg. Tráchtad ann so arna tharrang a crúadchorp Gaodhailge; edited from MS TCD H 3. 18 (= CIH ii 691.1-699.4); dated to late 13th or early 14th c.

Introduction; Normalised text [in early modern Irish orthography] and translation; Diplomatic text [of complete version in MS H 3. 18 (= A), as well as eight fragments identified as part of this treatise (= B–I)]; Notes; Glossary; Index; Bibliography.

Rev. by
Jenny Benham, in Speculum 97/1 (Jan., 2022), pp. 205-206.
Eamon Darcy, in StH 47 (2021), pp. 170-172.
Pádraig Ó Macháin, in Béascna 12 (2022), pp. 138-143.

Nach mil fil a seilb duine ata athgabál techta airi […]; edited from MSS TCD H 3. 18 and Egerton 88; with English translation and notes.

Specially on the interrelationship of the three extant recensions.

Studies the saga of Fergus mac Léti, focusing on the version in the opening two sections of Cethairṡlicht athgabálae, and argues that §1 was composed in strict verse together with §2 with the purpose of illustrating the law of distraint. Includes the restored text and English translation of §1 of this version and of §2 of the Old Irish commentary version (which is also argued to be composed in verse), and supplies an additional section of the commentary version omitted in D. A. Binchy’s edition in Ériu 16 (1952), pp. 33-48 (discussion in Appendix).

Chap. 1 (pp. 1-27): Magical texts in early medieval Ireland [discusses: I. The St. Gall Incantations, 1-4; II. The spell in the Codex Sti. Pauli; III. The spell in Leabhar Breac; IV. ‘Fer Fio’s cry’]; chap. 2 (pp. 29-48): The spells of blacksmiths, and related matters [ad Fáeth fíada line 54 and the depiction of blacksmiths as magicians in Irish literature]; chap. 3 (pp. 49-88): The three qualifications of a blacksmith [discusses and compares a number of texts that comment on the objects mentioned in Triad 120 on the blacksmith (also found in Bretha nemed toísech): I. The ‘illustrated version’ [YBL and Eg 1782]; II. The poems in Acallam Becc [Bk Lismore]; III. The Edinburgh tract [NLS Adv. 72.1.5]; IV. Druine dána dlegar don Gobainn [H 3. 18]; with text and translation].

Rev. by
Cathinka Dahl Hambro, in Speculum 96/4 (Oct., 2021), pp. 1161-1163.

Edition and translation of a brief Modern Irish passage dealing with the origins of Roman law, from MS TCD H 3. 18 (= CIH ii 602.34-603.15).

From TCD H 3. 18, with English translation and notes. Cf. Best² 2267.

Studies the use of pseudo-archaic spelling in texts found in a handful of sixteenth-century Irish manuscripts (particularly TCD H 3. 18, Harley 5280 and RIA 23 N 10).

Pt. I: Description of the manuscript [incl. scribal annotations and non-scribal marginalia]; Pt. II: Description of contents.

Edition of Version 1, based on MSS TCD H 2. 16 and TCD H 3. 18; and of Version 2, based on Egerton 1781 and RIA B iv 1; with English translation and notes. Includes an examination of the historical background and literary themes.

Criticises E. Mac Néill’s translation of the opening section of Uraicecht Becc (in Best² 2172), showing that it is based on the glossator’s comment rather than the principal text, and accordingly suggests that Mac Néill’s airecar ‘is found’ should be substituted by the reading of the original text, either H 3. 18 arragar ‘is bound’ or BB agar ‘is pleaded’. Includes a translation of the original text of the eight following sections. Also criticises R. Thurneysen’s translation (in Best² 2164) of the legal terms aithne (MS aichnid) and aithnid.

Nı̄ba mē / linfes do neoch dara thráth. 9 qq., preceded by a prologue containing prose and 2 additional qq. (beg. M’aiti-si fíal Finngaine). Edited from LL, Rawl. B 512, H 3. 18, Bodl. Ir. d. 5. Reconstructed text, diplomatic transcriptions, English translation, textual notes.

Second, revised edition. Supersedes 1st Engl. ed., 2015 (= IBK-NF, 10).

Critical edition based on all MSS (LL, YBL, Eg. 1782, NLS Gaelic XL, H 3. 18).

Ed. with diplomatic and restored texts (incl. glosses on text) on the three cauldrons of poesy, Coire Goiriath, Coire Érmai, Coire Soḟis from MS TCD H 3. 18 with Engl. transl. and notes. Begins with Moí coire coir Goiriath. Discussion of linguistic dating and metrics. Includes index of names and principal notes. Appendix with ed. of text on the hazels of Segais (cuill na Segsa) from MS NLI G 10.

Add. et corr. in Ériu 35 (1984), pp. 189-191.

Argues that D. A. Binchy’s emendation of the two sentences introduced by céin in Críth gablach §9, 77-79 is unnecessary, and offers an interpretation of the text that allows the restoration of the original readings in MS TCD H 3. 18 (céin mbís maice and céin bes n-óenchiniud).

Discusses the second part of the tale cited in the OIr. glossing on the Senchas már as an explanation for imbas forosnai (CIH iii 879.23-880.14), suggesting a possible Christian interpretation of the forest scene with Derg Corra and the latter’s recognition by Finn.

Engl. transl. of 2009 2nd rev. Ger. ed. (= IBK-S, 130), further revised and augmented. Superseded by 2nd, rev. ed., 2019 (= IBK-NF, 18).

Critical edition based on all MSS (LL, YBL, Eg. 1782, NLS Gaelic XL, H 3. 18).

Edition of Bríatharogaim, including glossing and commentary, from MSS RIA 23 P 12, NLI G 53, TCD H 3. 18, and YBL; with translation and notes. Discussion of each of the names: Beithe, Luis, Fern, Sail, Nin, (h)Úath, Dair, Tinne, Coll, Cert, Muin, Gort, Gétal, Straiph, Ruis, Ailm, Onn, Ú(i)r, Edad (?), Idad (?), Ébad (?), Ó(i)r, Uil(l)en(n), Pín (Iphín), Iphín (Pín), Emancholl.

Part I (pp. 1-33) by J.B.: Early Irish examples of the evil eye: 1. The destructive eye [súil miledach, Birugderc, súil milltech, súil neimnech, possibly túathcháech]; 2. The angry eye [déccain aindíaraid, súil (fhéig) andíaraid]; 3. Casting the evil eye [millid, aidmillid; corrguinecht also discussed]; 4. Envy and the evil eye [for-moinethar, drochrosc, drochshúil]; 5. Protection against the evil eye. Part II (pp. 34-39) by F.K.: ‘The evil eye’ in early Irish law: a section of legal commentary (dating from around the twelfth century) attached to a four-word quotation from an Old Irish law text (No etlod tri ormath ‘Or stealing away through envy’), ed. with transl. and notes from MSS Rawlinson B 506 and TCD H 3. 18; cf. CIH i 144.34-145.5; ii 673.3-10; iii 955.1-8, 1051.17-23.

Discusses a passage on Cain and Abel and the origin of Fomorians, found in TCD H 3. 18 (= CIH ii 682.1-15), beg. Cáiin didiu roformdig re hAibel. Includes English translation.

Study edition. Text A, based on the mss. witnesses (LL,H 3. 18, Harley 5280 and Rawlinson B 512); Text B, normalized to Old Irish standard.

Rev. by
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 47 (2021), pp. 258-259.
Emanuela Sanfelici, in JCL 23 (2022), pp. 162-176.

Edition, with translation and notes, from TCD H 3. 18, H 3. 17, Harley 432, and Lebor na hUidre. Appendix 1 contains an edition from MS TCD H 3. 17 of a passage concerning Dubthach’s judgement (with translation and notes); Appendix 2 contains an edition from MS Harley 432 of the retelling of a story concerning the killing of Patrick’s charioteer, Odrán (with translation and notes). Cf. J. Carey, in CMCS 19 (Summer, 1990), pp. 1-18.

Emphasises the role of the O’Doran legal family in the transmission of the Prologue on the grounds of their association with the main text in MS Harley 432.

Beg. Cis lir lanamna dochuisin la feine? Edited from Rawlinson B 506 (= CIH i 144.5-150.16), complemented by H 3. 18; with 8 facs. plates, English translation, notes, glossary, index.

Rev. by
Christophe Archan, in ÉtC 44 (2018), pp. 235-236.
Charlene M. Eska, in CMCS 71 (Summer, 2016), pp. 84-85.
Maria Hallinan, in Béascna 10 (2017), pp. 153-156.
Gerald Manning, in StH 41 (2015), pp. 189-192.
Max Quaintmere, in Béaloideas 83 (2015), pp. 178-179.
Sara Elin Roberts, in StC 50 (2016), pp. 175-176.
Dagmar S. Wodtko, in ZCP 63 (2016), pp. 268-269.
Joe Wolf, in Speculum 93/1 (Jan., 2018), pp. 236-237.

Dimplomatic editions of ICC (from MSS TCD 1319 (H 2.17) and 1337 (H 3. 18)) and IDB (from MSS TCD 1363 (H 4.22) and NLI G 7)) with normalised editions, translations and notes. Incl. discussion of language and orthography.

Rev. by
Johan Corthals, in ZCP 58 (2011), pp. 253-254.

Ascribed to Fachtna mac Sencha; beg. Forda-midiur trí dírniu arrae ar téora ferba fíra. Critical edition, from MSS TCD H 3. 17, H 3. 18, and Rawlinson B 502; with English translation, textual notes, and discussion of the textual transmission.

Section (c) discusses three passages on the somaíne from a text belonging to, or associated with, Di dligud raith ⁊ somaíne la flaith preserved in H 3. 18 (= CIH 921.11-16, 921.21-24, 921.25-31); with text and translation.

Pt. I: Description of the manuscript [incl. scribal annotations and non-scribal marginalia]; Pt. II: Description of contents.

Presents (i) a critical edition of O’Mulconry’s glossary based on YBL, with manuscript variants and translation, and (ii) an edition of the closely related glossary known as ‘Irsan’ from H 3. 18/4, with translation. With Introduction, Combined commentary, Bibliography, Indexes.

Rev. by
Johan Corthals, in ZCP 67 (2020), pp. 239-243.
Deborah Hayden, in Speculum 95/4 (Oct., 2020), pp. 1206-1207.
Chantal Kobel, in SCF 17 (2020-2021), pp. 15-19.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 46 (2020), pp. 277-280.
Thomas O’Loughlin, in Celtica 32 (2020), pp. 272-274.
Erich Poppe, in CMCS 80 (Winter, 2020), pp. 87-90.

Early seventeenth-century MS (mainly parchment), TCD H 3. 19, owned by Mac Donnells, containing 83 bardic religious poems. Tinnakill = Tigh na Coille, a Mac Donnell castle in the parish of Coolbanagher, bar. of Portnahinch, Co. Leix. Appendix: list of poems (first lines) according to the correct order of the MS.

The chief scribe of MS RIA B ii 1 is Aedh Buidhe Ó Leighin, scribe of the herbal tract in MS TCD 1343 (H 3.22); with palaeographical analysis. Also on Donncha Ó Conuill, a former owner of B, and the literary family of Ó Conuill. Includes plts.

Edition of a composite treatise (based on Taddeo Alderotti and others) on the healing properties of alcohol, from MS TCD H 3. 22. Also includes the Latin source texts and an independent translation of Alderotti from NLS Advocates’ Library 72.1.2; with glossary (no translation).

Presents an edition of Version 1 based on the earliest manuscript witness, Franciscan A 25 (wr. ca. 1628 representing the Ulster tradition of the transmission); Introduction, Text, Variant readings, Textual notes, Vocabulary, Indexes. In Aguisín I: an edition of poem beg. Uchán do lámh, a Dhuibh dhil (24 qq.), found in the copies of the Munster tradition of Version 1 but not present in those of the Ulster tradition; text based on RIA 23 M 25. In Aguisín II: An edition of a 18th. c. reworking of this narrative (= Version 2), entitled Eachtra Abhlaicce inghine rígh Alban agus Chearbhuill mac Donnchadh Mór Uí Dhála; text from TCD H 3. 23.

Rev. by
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, in StH 24 (1988), pp. 199-201.
Pádraig Ó Macháin, in Éigse 23 (1989), pp. 214-217.
Seán Ua Súilleabháin, in Celtica 20 (1988), pp. 204-207.

Based on TCD H 4. 5; with English translation and notes.

Traces the history of the entry beginning Fíthal ocus Cithruad in the H 4. 8 copy of Cóir anmann.

beg. Táinig im láthair gearán cráite, ed. from TCD MS H 4. 15, with notes.

New edition of the poem (supersedes L. McKenna 1919 [Best² 1759], 65-68), based on Book of O’Conor Don 50r-51r (33 qq.); now attributed to Tadhg Óg Ó hUiginn. With a selection of variant readings from other MSS, translation, commentary and textual notes. Also includes a discussion of the motif of the blood-spotted hand, shown to differ in its structure from that in Gesta Romanorum but analogous to that used by Shakespeare for his Lady Macbeth. Provides an appendix with the translation of the Gesta Romanorum version of De amore inordinato.

New edition with quatrains omitted by T. F. O’Rahilly (in Dánta gr.² nº 69 [pp. 93-94]), based on the Book of Conor Don and complemented by Franciscan A 25, with variants from Maynooth C 74 (g) (5) and TCD H 4. 15. With English translation, commentary and notes.

Edition and translation, with discussion.

1. The medieval poem, beg. Is trúag in ces i mbiam (8 qq.), ed. with transl. and notes from MSS TCD H 3. 18, TCD H 4. 22, and Brussels 20978–9; 2. A late (eighteenth-century?) adaptation of the Latin Easter hymn L’aleluya du jour de Pasques (composed by the Franciscan, Jean Tisserand, ob. 1494). Poem beg. A aonmhic Dé do céasadh thrínn (14 qq.); ed. with transl. and notes from MS NLI G 663. Latin text from Liber Usualis, beg. O filii et filiae (12 qq.).

Dimplomatic editions of ICC (from MSS TCD 1319 (H 2.17) and 1337 (H 3. 18)) and IDB (from MSS TCD 1363 (H 4.22) and NLI G 7)) with normalised editions, translations and notes. Incl. discussion of language and orthography.

Diplomatic edition of the early Irish law tracts in manuscripts from the professional schools: MSS TCD H 2.12 (8iii), H 2. 15A, H 2. 15B, H 2. 16, H 3. 17, H 3. 18, H 4. 22, H 5. 15, E 3. 3, E 3. 5; RIA 23 P 12, 23 Q 6, 23 P 3, C i 2; Rawlinson B 487, Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 506; Harley 432, Egerton 88, Egerton 90, Nero A 7, Add. 4783; NLI G 3, G 11; Copenhagen 261B.

Vol. I. 1978. xxviii + 337.
Vol. II. 1978. 339-744.
Vol. III. 1978. 745-1138.
Vol. IV. 1978. 1139-1531.
Vol. V. 1978. 1532-1925.
Vol. VI. 1978. 1926-2343.

Introductory matter (i-xxviii) also separ. publ.

Rev. by
Liam Breatnach, Aidan Breen and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 382-438.
T. M. Charles Edwards, in StH 20 (1980), pp. 141-162.

Irish prognostications from thunder (§§[1.]–[6.]) and from the howling of dogs (§[7.]). [1.] Poem beg. Torann Domhnaigh créd fatá, ed. from Laud Misc. 615 and TCD H 4. 22; [2.] Text beg. Torann Domhnaig do-fóirne díghbhail for chleirchibh, ed. from NLI G 1; [3.] Text beg. Tóirneach an Luain, bás ban, ed. from RIA 23 M 30; [4.] Text beg. Torann Enair sidh sainemail, ed. from TCD H 4. 22; [5.] Text beg. Gaoth mor ocus toirneach isin mí so, ed. from Edinburgh Laing 21; [6.] text beg. Da ti toirneach a mi Ianuarius, ed. from RIA 23 O 57 (and RIA C iv 2); [7.] Poem beg. Donál chon cenduigh co cert, ed. from Laud Misc. 615 (and NLS Advocates’ 72.1.41 and Egerton 158). All texts with English translation and notes.

Also incl. Scél as-a:mberar combad hé Find mac Cumaill Mongán, Scél Mongáin and Tucait baile Mongáin.

Argues that LU stands closer to the original Cín Dromma Snechtai texts than MSS Egerton 88 and Dublin, RIA 23 N 10, as it was the direct source of Gilla Commáin Ó Congaláin’s (†1135) selection whence the Connacht MS tradition comes.

Discusses the Mellbretha; with Irish translation of the opening passage in Egerton 88 and of the fragment from TCD MS H 4. 22.

Edition of Immacaldam in druad Brain ocus inna banḟátho Febuil óas Loch Febuil (Imbu messe, imbu mé, 8 qq.; cf. K. Meyer, ZCP 9 (1913), pp. 339-340). Reconstructed and normalized from TCD H 4. 22 and NLI G 7 (includes diplomatic texts); with English translation.

Republ. in The Otherworld voyage in early Irish literature, pp. 73-90.

Studies the use of pseudo-archaic spelling in texts found in a handful of sixteenth-century Irish manuscripts (particularly TCD H 3. 18, Harley 5280 and RIA 23 N 10).

Reviews D. Binchy’s discussion (in Celtica 8.144) of the terms for games and sports named in Mellbretha: 1. lúb, líathróit; 2. corthe críche; 3. tochailt trebán; 4. lém; 5. snám; 6. sraenán; 7. brandub; 8. fidchell; 9. buanfach; 10. folach migán; 11. immarchor uanán; 12. ardchless co n-ublaib; 13. bocluasc; 14. echréim; 15. cor cloiche; 16. dréim; 17. léim; 18. díbirciud; 19. uathad fri hilar; 20. crosdibirciud; 21. táithe tuilche; 22. bundsach i n-airecht.

Appendix: A synthetic version of the lists of martial feats (cles) as found in the Ulster cycle of tales.

Edition of a poem (25 qq.) in syllabic verse attributed to Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin, beg. Gabh mo chomhairle a mheic mhín (= CIH v 1584.1-1585.8). Text from TCD H 4. 22 and BL Add. 19995, normalized to Classical Modern Irish standard. With apparatus criticus, English translation, and textual notes.

Edition of an Early Modern Irish text on the meaning of the Latin term magister, beg. Do chéimindaibh an mhaighisdir ann só. Text based on TCD E 4. 1, with variants from NLI G 8 and TCD H 4. 22; with commentary and English translation.

Written for Cathal Mac Diarmada (†1530). Ascr. to Páidín Ó Maoil Chonaire; text from TCD H 4. 22.

App. 1: Do mhúsgail mé d’éis luighe araoir go sáimh; ed. based on MSS TCD 1399 (H 5.28) and 1367 (H 4.26), where it is ascribed to Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh and Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh resp.; with Engl transl. and notes; App. 2. Am leaba araoir do shíleas féin a’ teacht, attributed to Cearbhall Ó Dála na mBan; ed based on MSS TCD 1365 (H 4.24) and RIA A iv 2, with Engl transl. and notes; App. 3. Fada ar gcothrom ó chéile (from DG 78–79), attributed (in MS RIA F vi 2) to Cearbhall Ó Dála; with Engl. transl.

Translation based on the earliest Ulster MSS (A 25, TCD H 4.25 and 24 P 12; cf. the editions by Eoghan Ó Neachtain, Ériu 4.47, and Paul Walsh, IMN 1928 26ff).

App. 1: Do mhúsgail mé d’éis luighe araoir go sáimh; ed. based on MSS TCD 1399 (H 5.28) and 1367 (H 4.26), where it is ascribed to Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh and Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh resp.; with Engl transl. and notes; App. 2. Am leaba araoir do shíleas féin a’ teacht, attributed to Cearbhall Ó Dála na mBan; ed based on MSS TCD 1365 (H 4.24) and RIA A iv 2, with Engl transl. and notes; App. 3. Fada ar gcothrom ó chéile (from DG 78–79), attributed (in MS RIA F vi 2) to Cearbhall Ó Dála; with Engl. transl.

Edition based on TCD H 4. 26, etc.

Interrelationship of several poems of the same metre. Incl. normalised ed. of two poems from TCD MS H 5 3: A naoi mhíonla shírshíogach shéccuin shuairc, with MS readings and notes, and Bhíos (a)oidhche um aonl(a)oighe 's bá mór mo cheas, with notes.

Ci nach ccanair dhamh (12 qq.). Text from TCD H 5. 3; with French translation.

7 qq.; text based on TCD MS H 5. 3.

Provides an edition of three seventeenth-century apologues based on events of the Roman civil war: 1. qq. 22-31 of Rug cosnamh ar chrích Midhe (text from RIA A v 2); 2. qq. 26-39 of Cóir súil re seasamh Gaoidheal (text from TCD H 6. 7); 3. qq. 15-26 of A Thoirdhealbhaigh, turn th’aigneadh by Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh (text based on TCD H 5. 6). Standardized text, English translation, notes, and discussion of each apologue in the context of the poem in which it occurs.

Satirical text, derivative of Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis, containing prose and poetry (a crosánacht ?), directed against the Hearth Money Act of 1662. Edited from MSS TCD H 5.9, H 2. 6, RIA 23 K 24, RIA 23 O 79; perhaps composed by Roibeard Nuinsionn. Contains two poems beg. Ceist agam ort, a Shéamuis and Ní dual simeléar ag síol Lóbuis. Includes a glossary and indexes of proper names.

1601. Sgol gan oide an t-ord gaisgidh, by Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird. 59qq., from TCD H 5. 9; with English translation and notes.

Dursan toisg Dhonnchaidh mheic Briain. Text (38 qq.) based on TCD H 5. 9 (quatrain 3 only in Book of Lismore); with English translation and notes.

Edition of a brief speculum principis by Mac Bruaideadha addressed to Donnchadh Ó Briain (1581–1624), fourth earl of Thomond. Critical text based on Maynooth M 107, with variants from Egerton 187, Black Book of Clanranald, and RIA 23 L 17 (incl. discussion of 38 other later testimonies); with diplom. text of, English translation and notes (incl. text of damaged copy in TCD H 5. 9 which is not part of this critical edition, and the text of an additional quatrain only present in L).

Late 16th c. 1. A bhé mhálla (7 qq.); 2. Nā maoidh a shaoghail do shéan (5 qq.). Edited from Bodl. F. 2.34 Linc.; with English translation, apparatus criticus (poem 2 with readings from TCD H 5. 11), textual notes.

Diplomatic edition of the early Irish law tracts in manuscripts from the professional schools: MSS TCD H 2.12 (8iii), H 2. 15A, H 2. 15B, H 2. 16, H 3. 17, H 3. 18, H 4. 22, H 5. 15, E 3. 3, E 3. 5; RIA 23 P 12, 23 Q 6, 23 P 3, C i 2; Rawlinson B 487, Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 506; Harley 432, Egerton 88, Egerton 90, Nero A 7, Add. 4783; NLI G 3, G 11; Copenhagen 261B.

Vol. I. 1978. xxviii + 337.
Vol. II. 1978. 339-744.
Vol. III. 1978. 745-1138.
Vol. IV. 1978. 1139-1531.
Vol. V. 1978. 1532-1925.
Vol. VI. 1978. 1926-2343.

Introductory matter (i-xxviii) also separ. publ.

Rev. by
Liam Breatnach, Aidan Breen and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 382-438.
T. M. Charles Edwards, in StH 20 (1980), pp. 141-162.

Legal interpretation of the episode of Cormac’s sword in Scél na Fír Flatha (= IT 3/1, 183–229).

App. (a) contains Cert Claidib Chormaic, from TCD MS H 2. 15B with variant readings from Scél na Fír Flatha (cf. supra) 201-202 and O’Davoren’s glossary (W. Stokes 1903-1904 [Best¹, p. 7]) and English translation. App. (b) contains Gúbretha Caratniad §46, from MS Rawlinson B 502, with English translation. App. (c) contains commentary to Findṡruth Fíthail from TCD MS H 5. 15 (= CIH vi 2143.18-40, with corrections to D. A. Binchy’s text), with English translation.

Gives a biographical account of Tadhg (mac Gearóid) Ó Rodaighe and offers a survey of the MSS in which Ó Rodaighe wrote one or more sections, of the MSS parts of which were copied from MSS written by Tadhg, and of the MSS that are thought to have been for some time in the possession of Tadhg. From these MSS materials (mainly TCD H 6. 15) twenty four poems, either by or directly concerning Tadhg Ó Rodaighe, are edited with translation, manuscript readings, metrical analysis, and textual notes.

[1.] By Tadhg Ó Rodaighe: (i) (Tugas tuile tromghráidh duit; (ii) Binn le neach a mholadh féin); [2.] in praise of Tadhg and his family: (iii) Beannacht uaim ó rún croidhe, by Seaan Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (iv) Niamhadh na huaisle an eagna, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (v) A fhir thaistil chríche Cuinn, by Pádraig Óg Mac an Bhaird; (vi) Truagh an mhaidhmsi ar mhaicne hÍr, by Seaan Ó Duinnín; (vii) Barr orchra ar fhréimh Rosa, authorship unknown; (viii) Barr orchra aicme Rosa, authorship unknown; (ix) Lúireach Chríost fa chosaibh Thaidhg, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (x) A mhic Gearóid an ghlóir ghloin, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xi) Fíorchrádh d’Éirinn turas Taidhg, by Diarmaid mac Laoisioch Mac an Bhaird; (xii) Cá dream is fhearr ná sliocht Ír?, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xiii) In ainm Chríost an ceangalso, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xiv) Cinnim comhairle le Dia, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xv) An chraobh chumhra uaim don tsaoi, by Séafraidh Ó Ruairc; (xvi) Deirbhshiúr don uaisle an eagna, by An tAthair Pádraig (or Cornán Óg) Ó Coirnín mac Cornáin; (xvii) Slán fa éirghe Eilíse, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xviii) Mó ná mionca triail go Tadhg, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xix) Uaibh mo théarnodh, a Thaidhg chroidhe, authorship unknown; (xx) Is gnáth dhá naomhadh Síol Róigh, authorship unknown; [3.] topics in which Ó Rodaighe manifested interest: (xxi) Comhnaigh, a Chríost, um chroidhe (Laoi na mBuadh), attributed to Colm Cille; (xxii) Aithne dhamh gach meirge mór (Suaitheantas Chloinne Iosrael), authorship unknown; [4.] poems concerning Tadhg mac Taidhg Uí Rodaighe: (xxiii) Maith, trá, do thoigheacht, a Thaidhg, by Fearghal Muimhneach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (xxiv) Aoinsciath chosnaimh na gceall, by Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin.

On the identification of Robert Campbell, author of the laudatory poem to Edward Lhuyd in the preface to Archaeologia Britannica; includes text from TCD H 5. 20 and English translation.

Studies the interrelationship of the ‘shorter’ and ‘longer’ recensions, as well as the position of the NLI G 2 version in the stemma codicum.

48 qq., attributed to Gilla Cóemáin. Critical edition from MSS Brussels 2569–72, Cambridge Add. 3084, NLI G 131, RIA 23 K 32, B i 1a, B iv 2, C iv 3, D ii 1, TCD H 5. 28, Maynooth C 88; normalized to Early Modern Irish spelling. With English translation, textual notes and commentary, indexes.

App. 1: Do mhúsgail mé d’éis luighe araoir go sáimh; ed. based on MSS TCD 1399 (H 5.28) and 1367 (H 4.26), where it is ascribed to Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh and Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh resp.; with Engl transl. and notes; App. 2. Am leaba araoir do shíleas féin a’ teacht, attributed to Cearbhall Ó Dála na mBan; ed based on MSS TCD 1365 (H 4.24) and RIA A iv 2, with Engl transl. and notes; App. 3. Fada ar gcothrom ó chéile (from DG 78–79), attributed (in MS RIA F vi 2) to Cearbhall Ó Dála; with Engl. transl.

Edition based on TCD H 6. 7.

Edition based on TCD H 6. 7.

Provides an edition of three seventeenth-century apologues based on events of the Roman civil war: 1. qq. 22-31 of Rug cosnamh ar chrích Midhe (text from RIA A v 2); 2. qq. 26-39 of Cóir súil re seasamh Gaoidheal (text from TCD H 6. 7); 3. qq. 15-26 of A Thoirdhealbhaigh, turn th’aigneadh by Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh (text based on TCD H 5. 6). Standardized text, English translation, notes, and discussion of each apologue in the context of the poem in which it occurs.

Edition of poem beg. Teallach coisreagtha críoch Bharrach (42½ qq., interspersed with four prose passages); doubtful attrib. to Dáibhidh Ó Bruadair. Text based on MS BL Additional 29614, with variants from TCD H 6. 7 and RIA 23 N 15; with English translation and notes.

An elegy on the death of Seaán Ó Domhnaill (†1655). Text of Stonyhurst A ii 20 with readings from H 6. 7, Egerton 112, and RIA 23 O 73; with Introduction, Linguistic and Metrical analyses, English translation, Textual notes.

A poem in praise of Doimnic (son of Aodh Buidhe son of Conn) Ó Domhnaill and his wife, Brighid. 63 qq., edited from Stonyhurst A ii 20 with variants from TCD H 6. 7, RIA 23 O 73 and Eg. 112; with Introduction, Linguistic and Metrical analyses, English translation, Textual notes.

Edition with transl. and notes of three tales from MSS RIA 24 P 12, NLI G 448, and TCD H 6. 8. Contains section on language of texts (pp. 142-67).

Rev. by
Tomás Ó Concheanainn, in CMCS 32 (Winter, 1996), p. 122.
Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, in Éigse 30 (1997), pp. 216-229.

1. The manuscripts; 2. Relationship of [MSS] P [RIA 24 P 12], G [NLI G 448] and H [TCD 1412 (H 6.8)]; 3. Scribes and MSS; 4. Possible date and scribe of P [wr. between 1638 and 1648 by Giolla Pádraig Ó Luinín]; 5. Rawlinson B 512 and the Early Modern version; 6. Additional topographical material; 7. Purpose of additional topographical material; 8. The significance of the Conall Cearnach episode; 9. The significance of further changes in the Early Modern version; 10. The relevance of the Early Modern version [tale reworked between 1567-90, and was written for the MacDonnells of Antrim to justify the murder of Seaán Ó Néill (1567) by the MacDonnells]; 11. The redactor of the Early Modern version [a member of the Ó Duibhgeannáin family or Brian Ó Gnímh]. App.: The Edinburgh version (E [NLS Advocates’ Library 72.1.36]) of SMMD. Cf. C. Breatnach, in Ériu 42 (1991), pp. 119-138; 43 (1992), pp. 159-176.

Argues that two quatrains in MS TCD H 6. 11, first line A mhná fágbhaidh fúmsa in feart, ascribed to Tadhg Ó Conchubhair, to commemorate Piaras de Léis (†1751 in Riga), appear to be a recycling of ‘John Lacys epitap’, extant as (first line) Wná fagig foumsa un farth in MS Paris, BNF, Fonds Français 26954, Pièces Originales vol. 470, Dossier 10477, f. 13 (includes photograph), and Mhná fáguigh fúmsa an feart in a MS in the possession of J. Vendryes (see R. A. S. Macalister, in RC 48 (1931), pp. 235-280; cf. Best² 925).

Prints poetry connected to the poetic school that existed under the patronage of scholar Tadhg Ó Rodaigh in Co. Leitrim at the end of the sixteenth century: Truagh an mhaidhmsi ar mhaicne hÍr (22 qq.), by Seán Ó Duinnín [elegy on the death of the scholar’s father, Gearóid Óg Ó Rodaighe (†1680)]; Oidhre Ghearóid Dia, dhá dhíon (3 qq.), anonymous; Inghean Dhonnchaidh an ghlóir ghlé (2 qq.) [an appendix to Lúirioch Chríost fá chosaibh Thaidhg, cf. Eigse 1.162ff.]; Uaibh mo théarnódh a Thaigh chroidhe (2 qq.). From TCD H 6. 15.

Gives a biographical account of Tadhg (mac Gearóid) Ó Rodaighe and offers a survey of the MSS in which Ó Rodaighe wrote one or more sections, of the MSS parts of which were copied from MSS written by Tadhg, and of the MSS that are thought to have been for some time in the possession of Tadhg. From these MSS materials (mainly TCD H 6. 15) twenty four poems, either by or directly concerning Tadhg Ó Rodaighe, are edited with translation, manuscript readings, metrical analysis, and textual notes.

[1.] By Tadhg Ó Rodaighe: (i) (Tugas tuile tromghráidh duit; (ii) Binn le neach a mholadh féin); [2.] in praise of Tadhg and his family: (iii) Beannacht uaim ó rún croidhe, by Seaan Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (iv) Niamhadh na huaisle an eagna, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (v) A fhir thaistil chríche Cuinn, by Pádraig Óg Mac an Bhaird; (vi) Truagh an mhaidhmsi ar mhaicne hÍr, by Seaan Ó Duinnín; (vii) Barr orchra ar fhréimh Rosa, authorship unknown; (viii) Barr orchra aicme Rosa, authorship unknown; (ix) Lúireach Chríost fa chosaibh Thaidhg, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (x) A mhic Gearóid an ghlóir ghloin, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xi) Fíorchrádh d’Éirinn turas Taidhg, by Diarmaid mac Laoisioch Mac an Bhaird; (xii) Cá dream is fhearr ná sliocht Ír?, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xiii) In ainm Chríost an ceangalso, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xiv) Cinnim comhairle le Dia, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xv) An chraobh chumhra uaim don tsaoi, by Séafraidh Ó Ruairc; (xvi) Deirbhshiúr don uaisle an eagna, by An tAthair Pádraig (or Cornán Óg) Ó Coirnín mac Cornáin; (xvii) Slán fa éirghe Eilíse, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xviii) Mó ná mionca triail go Tadhg, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xix) Uaibh mo théarnodh, a Thaidhg chroidhe, authorship unknown; (xx) Is gnáth dhá naomhadh Síol Róigh, authorship unknown; [3.] topics in which Ó Rodaighe manifested interest: (xxi) Comhnaigh, a Chríost, um chroidhe (Laoi na mBuadh), attributed to Colm Cille; (xxii) Aithne dhamh gach meirge mór (Suaitheantas Chloinne Iosrael), authorship unknown; [4.] poems concerning Tadhg mac Taidhg Uí Rodaighe: (xxiii) Maith, trá, do thoigheacht, a Thaidhg, by Fearghal Muimhneach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (xxiv) Aoinsciath chosnaimh na gceall, by Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin.

Discusses examples of Middle Irish innovations in the nominal system, namely the loss of the neuter, the ousting of the dual, the simplification of the case system, and the remodeling of the declensional stems.

Translation of the Mac Brady genealogy, based on MSS TCD N 5. 12 and RIA 23 O 36.

On the succession of the Mac Bradaigh chiefs of Cúil Bhrighdín and Teallach Cearbhuill. Based on extracts from TCD N 5. 12 and RIA 23 E 26.

By John O’Donovan. Text from MS TCD N 5. 14; with English translation and glossary.

Demonstrates that the text of the Echternach Gospels (MS BNF lat. 9389) agrees closely with four manuscripts associated with Armagh, namely the Mac Durnan Gospels (MS Lambeth Palace 1370), the Mael Brigte Gospels (MS Harley 1802), MS Harley 1023, and the Book of Armagh.

Argues that the diagram on fol. 171^r is a studied attempt at the exegesis of the text of the Apocalypse.

pp. 242-248: Notes on the Irish words (with particular reference to dating), by F.K.

Texts: A. Muirchú; B. Tírechán; C. Additamenta: D. Notulae; E. Liber Angeli. With introduction, commentary and English translation.

Rev. by
Joseph F. Kelly, in Speculum 56/3 (Jul., 1981), pp. 585-587.
T. Ó Raifeartaigh, in IHS 22, nº 87 (Mar., 1981), pp. 281-282.
Richard Sharpe, in Éigse 18/2 (1981), pp. 329-332.
Richard Sharpe, in Peritia 1 (1982), pp. 363-369.

Includes reconstructed Latin text.

Includes reconstructed Latin text.

Argues that the notulae are a transcript of notes made in situ by the abbot of Armagh in the period 835-845, the Munster section of which was later to be used as material for the composition of St. Patrick’s circuit of mid-Munster in the Tripartite Life.

Discusses the use of the graphemes <·n·> <·m·> to mark some instances of nasal consonants arising from nasalization in this manuscript.