Texts
Cesta Grega‘Greek questions’
- Early Irish
- prose
Title
Cesta Grega
‘Greek questions’
The title is uncertain. The Book of Fermoy reads Cesta garga, which Todd emends to Cesta grega ‘Greek questions’. Stokes silently accepts this emendation in his edition, even though the form is ungrammatical (RIA catalogue on the B. of Fermoy).
Manuscripts
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29 (1134) = Book of Fermoy [s. xiv/xv]pp. 179b–180heading: ‘Cesta garga andso’beginning: ‘Ca ni is duibhi ina in fiach?’Much of it is now illegible.
- London, British Library, MS Additional 4783 ff. 3-7 [s. xvex]f. 7beginning: ‘Ca dealb i bfuil Luicifer a n-ifearn ar tuitim trena diumus’Second half of the collection.
Language
- Early Irish
- Stokes sugggested that the language is older than the riddle-and-answer section of Tochmarc Ailbe.
Form
prose (primary)
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.] Stokes, Whitley, “Irish riddles”, The Celtic Review 1:2 (1904–1905): 132–135.
Journal volume: Internet Archive – 1.1 only: <link>
Edition based on the Book of Fermoy.
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno, “Devinettes irlandaises”, Mélusine: recueil de mythologie, littérature populaire, traditions et usages 6 (1892): 38.
Reprinted in Gaelic Journal 5 (1895): 155.
Gallica: <link>
Edition based on the BL MS Add. 4783.
Secondary sources (select)
Mulchrone, Kathleen, Thomas F. OʼRahilly, Elizabeth FitzPatrick, and A. I. Pearson, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, 8 vols, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1926–1970.
8 volumes: Vol. 1, pp. 1–654 (fasc. 1-5) -- Vol. 2, pp. 655–1294 (fasc. 6-10) -- Vol. 3, pp. 1295–1938 (fasc. 11-15) -- Vol. 4, pp. 1939–2578 (fasc. 16-20) -- Vol. 5, pp. 2579–3220 (fasc. 21-25) -- Vol. 6, pp. 3221–3500 (fasc. 26-27) -- Vol. 7 (index 1) -- Vol. 8 (index 2).
Vol. 5,
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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January 2020, last updated: June 2022