verse beg. Nioclás Claudi, fial an fear
- Irish
- verse
- Nioclás Claudi, fial an fear
See more Hickey (Antony)
See more Luke Wadding is credited in the headings, but may not have been the author. Canice Mooney suggested that the poem may have been written for him by Antony Hickey (Ó hÍceadha), a Franciscan friar active in Rome.
- Irish
A brief poem (3 six-line stt.) written in a late form of Middle Breton. It is found in print as part of a collection of poems, in nearly 40 languages, in memory of Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, the astronomer, humanist and patron of science who died in 1637. The addressee being commemorated, a native speaker of French (l. 11), is praised for his proficiency in the languages of the world, including Italien, Latin ha Grec / Islanrd [sic, i.e. Islandr ‘Irish’, acc. to Le Menn], Sauxnec ha Brezonec (ll. 8-9), apparently making it appropriate that he is eulogised in every language of the world (Pa deu pep langaich so er bet / Do meleudy bede à steret, ll. 13-14).
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The text given is based on a transcript of the text found in BAV Barb. lat. 1996; the transcript was made available to the editor by Cainnech Ó Maonaigh.
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A copy which may have been intended for the printer (see Mhág Craith’s notes). Cf. the Latin poem on f. 121r.