Texts

verse beg. A Dé dúlig, atat-teoch

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

Middle Irish
verse
Early Irish poetry

Poem on the psalms and other religious matters.

First words (verse)

A Dé dúlig, atat-teoch

“O God the creator, I implore you”

Speaker/Addressee

Addressee: God

God

No short description available

Author

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

(d. 1016)

Irish poet; fer légind of Ros Ailithir (Rosscarbery, Co. Cork)

Manuscripts

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502 2, ff. 19–89 = Lebar Glinne Dá Locha (?) [1125 x 1150]

f. 46rb41–vb14

50 stanzas

Language

Middle Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Length

Number of stanzas: 50

Number of lines: 212

Textual relationships

Related: Book of PsalmsBook of Psalms

Associated items

Cenn ard Adaim étrocht rádCenn ard Adaim étrocht rádBrief Middle Irish poem on the origin and composition of Adam’s head and other body parts (head from ‘the land of Garad’, belly from Laban/Lodain, etc.). The copy in MS Rawlinson B 502 occurs as part of a poem on the Psalter (beg. A Dé dúlig, atat-teoch) and is directly followed by an additional quatrain with an ascription to Airbertach mac Coisse (d. 1016), saying that he translated the poem from Latin into Irish.

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Keywords

PsalmsPsalms
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Ó Néill, Pádraig, “Airbertach mac Cosse's poem on the psalter”, Éigse 17 (1977–1979): 19–46.

Edited and translated.

Selections

[ed.] [tr.] Murphy, Gerard [ed. and tr.], “Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin: I invoke Thee, God”, in: Gerard Murphy [ed. and tr.], Early Irish lyrics: eighth to twelfth century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. 35–37, 187–188.

CELT – edition: <link>

First three stanzas (12 lines), based on Meyer's text in ZCP 1 (1897).

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno, “Erschienene Schriften”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 1 (1897): 169–172, 175–176, 357–360, 493–500.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

497 Selections, including the first three stanzas (12 lines)

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “Anecdota from Irish MSS: XVII. A prayer. MS. Laud 610, fol. 46 a”, Gaelic Journal 7 (1897): 130–131.

CELT – Item 2: scribal colophon from Laud 610: <link>

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: I. Aus Rawlinson B. 502”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 3 (1901): 17–23.

Celtic Digital Initiative – All Mitteilungen of ZCP 3: <link> CELT – Sex aetates mundi (17-20): <link> CELT – ‘Cethrur do-raega ní dalb’ (20-22): <link> CELT – ‘Cenn ard Ádaim étrocht rád’ (23): <link> Internet Archive: <link>

20–23 Verses beg. ‘Cethrur do-raega ní dalb’ and ‘Cenn ard Ádaim étrocht rád’ (both marked with a cross in the margins of the manuscript).