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Irish grammatical tract I

  • Early Modern Irish
  • list, prose
One of the so-called Irish grammatical tracts. Osborn Bergin, the first (modern) editor, suggested it is later in composition than the other tracts and described it as forming an ‘introductory’ primer to (some of) the other texts, covering as it does “a mass of information on spelling and pronunciation, metrics, the government of prepositions, syntax, nominal composition and derivation [along with an] amount of explanation and commentary”. As the tract fails to address some of the issues it raises at the beginning, it has the appearance of being incomplete.
First words (prose)
  • Aibghitear sunn feibh as teachta a thaithmheach
Manuscripts
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 8 (752) [s. xvii]
pp. 3–48
beg. ‘Aibghiter sunn feibh as teachta a thaithmhech [...]’
Main manuscript witness.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1289 (H 1. 15) = The Psalter of Tara [1745]
Copy by Tadhg Ó Neachtain.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 1a (236a) = Book of the Ó Duibhgeannáin [s.xvii (?)]
Fragments
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.2.2 [s. xvii–xviii]
ff. 37r–38v
beg. ‘a h-anmannubh substainntecha’
Fragments.
Language
  • Early Modern Irish
Date
17th century?
Form
list, prose (primary)

Classification

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.] Mac Cárthaigh, Eoin, The art of bardic poetry: a new edition of Irish grammatical tracts I, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2014.
[ed.] Bergin, Osborn, “Irish grammatical tracts [I and II, §§ 1–11]”, Ériu 8 (supplement, 1916): i–v, 1–60.  
Critical edition of Irish grammatical tracts I (introductory part, pp 1–36) and part of II (on declension), §§ 1-11 (pp 37–60)
Internet Archive: <link>
1–36 (§§ 1–159, omitting metrical terms in §2), iv (preface)
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
August 2019, last updated: April 2024
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