Texts

verse beg. Cóictach, descipul, foglaintid

Middle Irish
verse

Medieval Irish poem attributed to the Munster scholar Máel Suthain Úa Cerbaill (d. 1010), dealing with the ecclesiastical and secular grades.

First words (verse)

Cóictach, descipul, foglaintid

Author

Ascribed to: Úa Cerbaill (Máel Suthain)Úa Cerbaill (Máel Suthain)

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

Manuscripts

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610 ff. 1–58 and ff. 73–122 = Leabhar na Rátha [1453–1454]

f. 92va

London, British Library, MS Harley 1802 = Gospels of Máel Brigte [s. xii¹]

beg. ‘Eccna intliucht comarle’

1q. Extract.

Language

Middle Irish
To be verified.

Form

verse (primary)

Length

Number of stanzas: 10

Textual relationships

Related: Mittelirische Verslehren IIMittelirische Verslehren II

Middle Irish metrical tract which enumerates and illustrates various metrical forms to be mastered by a learned poet (file). The main body of the text is structured around the curriculum of a file in training, for whose benefit the textbook appears to have been compiled.

Uraicecht na ríarUraicecht na ríar

Classification

Subjects

seven grades of the churchyet to be classified, numerical motifs, legal motifs and themes
seven grades of the church

id. 25987

i.e. sevenfold division of the grades of the church, a concept current in early Irish law by analogy with the seven grades of the laity

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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Siebenteilung aller geistlichen und weltlichen Rangstufen”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 5 (1905): 498–499.

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page name: Cóictach descipul foglaintid

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February 2019, last updated: July 2023