Mittelirische Verslehren III
- Middle Irish
- prose, verse
- Irish texts, Irish texts on language and literature, Tract on metrics
A Middle Irish metrical tract intended to enumerate and illustrate various metrical types, both common and uncommon.
Title
Mittelirische Verslehren III
This is the third Verslehre edited by Thurneysen in his edition of four Mittelirische Verslehren .
Manuscripts
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]
pp. 289a.1–296b.1
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]
pp. 288.29–288.59
Fragment
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1308 2 [s. xv?]
pp. 15b–19b
§§ 1-9 (end missing) and following a gap, §§23-76
ff. 134(192), 133(191)rb.20–vb.i, 136(194)–137(195)rb.62
ff. 16va (line 1)–18rb (line 3)
Not consulted by Thurneysen.
ff. 14ra (line)–15rb (line 21)
Not consulted by Thurneysen
A copy of the former
Language
- Middle Irish
Date
c. 1016.(1)n. 1 Rudolf Thurneysen, Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern [I] (1912): 86–89.
Form
prose, verse (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Irish tract on poetry (TCD 1337 fragment)Irish tract on poetry (TCD 1337 fragment)
Two fragments of what may have been a single Irish tract on poets and poetry, preserved on a fragment of vellum in TCD 1337 (p. 869).
Associated items
Brigit búadachBrigit búadach
Two stanzas of an Old Irish poem in praise of St Brigit of Kildare. The stanzas are quoted, possibly from a longer poem which no longer survives, in the tract on versification known as Mittelirische Verslehren III and a short, closely related one in the Book of Leinster.
Contents
Work in progress
Contents will be given in separate entries. The classification into four grades of metrical forms, ranging from common to obscure, follows that discussed by Roisin McLaughlin, ‘Metres in Mittelirische Verslehren III’, Ériu 55 (2005).
1. gnáthaisti (§§ 2-127)
Summary:Common metres.
2. gnátha medónda (§§ 128-147)
Summary:known metres
3. anaichinti (§§ 148-166)
Summary:unfamiliar metrical forms
4. écoitchenna (§§ 167-210)
Summary:uncommon metrical forms
Sources
Notes
Rudolf Thurneysen, Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern [I] (1912): 86–89.
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.] McLaughlin, Roisín, “A critical edition of Mittelirische Verslehren III”, unpublished ph.D. thesis, Trinity College, Dublin, 2007.
abstract:
This thesis consists of a critical edition and translation of a Middle Irish metrical tract known as Mittelirische Verslehren III (hereafter MV III). The tract is an important source of information on rhyming syllabic verse in the Middle Irish period. It consists of two hundred and nine stanzas which illustrate various types of metres, ranging from common metres to more complex metrical forms, many of which are not represented in the standard works of reference. The metres are classified into four sections as gnáthaisti ‘common metres’ (§§2-127), gnátha medónda ‘moderately well-known’ (§§128-47), anaichinti ‘unfamiliar’ (§§148-66) and écoitchenna ‘uncommon’ (§§167-210). The stanzas cited as illustrations cover a wide range of subject matter, including panegyric, satiric, religious and topographical material. At present, the text is available only in a diplomatic edition by Rudolf Thurneysen (1891, 1-182). This is based on two manuscripts: Royal Irish Academy MS 23 P 12 (the Book of Ballymote) and TCD MS H.2.12. He subsequently published (1912, 60- 72) a selection of readings from RIA MS D ii 1 (the Book of Uí Maine). Two further manuscript witnesses of the text were not available to Thurneysen. These are National Library of Scotland Gaelic MS 1 (Advocates 72.1.1) and National Library of Ireland MS G 3, both of which contain important variant readings.
Tara.tcd.ie – PDF: <link>
[ed.] [tr.] McLaughlin, Roisin, Early Irish satire, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2008. 300 pp.
An edition and translation of the satires in the text, with manuscript readings and critical apparatus.
[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], “Mittelirische Verslehren”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 3, Leipzig, 1891. 1–182.
comments: An index of verse metries and initial lines of verse is provided at the end of this contribution.
Internet Archive: <link>
67-105
Secondary sources (select)
McLaughlin, Roisin, Early Irish satire, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2008. 300 pp.
Ó hAodha, Donncha, “The first Middle Irish metrical tract”, in: Hildegard L. C. Tristram (ed.), Metrik und Medienwechsel / Metrics and media, 35, Tübingen: Narr, 1991. 207–244.
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