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Córus íubaile ‘The regulation of limitation periods’

  • Old Irish
  • prose
  • Early Irish law texts
An early Irish tract on legal procedure, such as conditions for the termination of a contract.
Title
Córus íubaile
‘The regulation of limitation periods’
This title occurs in the opening words. The commentary to text D also uses the name leabar íubaili.(1)n. 1 Liam Breatnach, Companion to CIH (2005): 240
Manuscripts

There is no complete copy of the text, but Breatnach distinguishes between four sets of extracts as well as a possible fifth one (with later commentaries and glosses).

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1387 (H 5. 15) [s. xv (?)]
Set of extracts A. The legal text written in large script, with commentary and some glosses in smaller script. Breaks off.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 20, pp. 629–660 [s. xvi (?)]
p. 641a ff
Extracts B: text with glosses and commentary.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 11, pp. 269–311
Extracts C: text with glosses and commentary
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 7, pp. 138–151
Extracts D: text with glosses and commentary
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 506 ff. 16b-62 [s. xiv]
Breatnach suggests that some or even all of the commentary is taken from Córus íubaile.
Language
  • Old Irish
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Early Irish law textsEarly Irish law texts
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Keywords

Contract lawContract law
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Poetic gradesPoetic grades
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Sources

Notes

1.
Liam Breatnach, Companion to CIH (2005): 240

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.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  

Numbered pp. 1926–2343; diplomatic edition of legal material from: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 (continued) -- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1387 -- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502 --  Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1308 --  London, British Library, MS Additional 4783 --  London, British Library, MS Nero A 7 --  Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS NKS 261b --  Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 3 --  Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 11 --  Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C i 2 --  Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16 --  Dublin, Trinity College, MS E 3. 3.

2186.37–2191.21 Extract A (TCD 1387)
[ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 3, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  

Numbered pp. 745–1138; diplomatic edition of legal material from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 (continued, pp. 745–1109); Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1317 (pp. 1111–1138).

1082.1–1087.17 Extract B (TCD 1337)
[ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 3, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  

Numbered pp. 745–1138; diplomatic edition of legal material from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 (continued, pp. 745–1109); Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1317 (pp. 1111–1138).

832.17–836.15 Extract C (TCD 1337)
[ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 2, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  

Numbered pp. 339–744; diplomatic edition of legal material from: London, British Library, MS Harley 432; Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1316; Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337.

680.19–681.40 Extract D (TCD 1337)
[ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 1, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  
comments: numbered pp. 1–337; diplomatic edition of legal material three manuscripts: the Bodleian manuscripts Rawlinson B 487 and Rawlinson B 506, and TCD 1433 (E 3. 5).
153.13–155.5 Rawlinson B 506 text. See notes above
[ed.] [tr.] Fletcher, Alan J., Drama and the performing arts in pre-Cromwellian Ireland: a repertory of sources and documents from the earliest times until c. 1642, Cambridge: Brewer, 2001.
144; 492 The part of B which relates to lower grades of poets (taman, drisiuc, oblaire and teiscin) is edited and translated here.
Translation wanted

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series, 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.  

A companion to D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978). Review article: Neil McLeod, ‘Review,A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici’, Peritia 19 (2005).

239–241 [id. 5.33. ‘Córus Íubaile’]
McLeod, Neil, Early Irish contract law, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies, 1, Sydney: Centre for Celtic Studies, University of Sydney, 1992.  
The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies has published a reprint of this book as part of the Early Irish Law Series (no. 6).
47–48; 244–246
Kelly, Fergus, A guide to early Irish law, Early Irish Law Series, 3, Dublin: DIAS, 1988.
277
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C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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