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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Irish d. 5 Fragment, including a dialogue between Cormac mart Art and Fíthal

  • Irish
  • s. xii ? manuscript fragment
  • Irish manuscripts
  • parchment
Two fragments of a single leaf of an Irish manuscript, possibly of the 12th century.
Identifiers
Location
Collection: Irish manuscripts
Shelfmark
Irish d. 5
Type
vernacular Irish verse
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xii ?
Possibly datable to the 12th century (Ó Cuív).
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
State of existence
fragmentary
UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.
manuscript fragment
Material
parchment
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.
Irish manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

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Secondary sources (select)

Yocum, Christopher Guy, “The literary figure of Fíthal”, Ph.D. thesis, Edinburgh University, 2009.  
abstract:
This thesis explores the literary figure of the mythical early Irish judge, Fíthal, from the earliest literary reference to him, c. 800, until MacPherson’s Ossian of the mid-eighteenth century. It does so by close study of the texts within which Fíthal appears, with close attention to their assumptions and purposes. From this series of close studies we can chart the developing character of Fíthal from juridical authority in the legal and legalistic texts to ideal judge or chief judge in the wider literary tradition. The thesis is divided into seven chapters, a general introduction, and one appendix. Chapter 1 contains a literature review of the major authors and disciplines which contributed to the thesis. Chapter 2 explains Fíthal’s position as a Wisdom Figure and the international background of Irish didactic literature. Chapters 3 and 4 contain the survey of Fíthal’s existence in Irish literature including discussion of the authorial intent underlying each manifestation. Chapter 5 is a new critical edition of the most important poem concerning Fíthal. Chapter 6 is a discussion of some hitherto unexplored but important facets of Fíthal’s character and an assessment of the theoretical writings which have implications for an understanding of his status. This thesis contributes to the continuing debate concerning the relationship between early Irish law and early Irish literature while simultaneously updating and revising scholarly knowledge concerning Fíthal. The thesis ranges widely over early Irish literature as it touches on Fíthal and explains his role in the literature in both its native and international context. It is hoped that this treatment of a relatively obscure but widespread figure will demonstrate how it is possible within the extant evidence to capture a character with a continuing presence in the tradition – a conclusion with considerable implications for our understanding of the tradition itself.
Edinburgh Research Archive – PDF: <link>
141
Medieval manuscripts in Oxford Libraries: a catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges, Online: Bodleian Libraries, 2017–present. URL: <https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/>.
direct link
Ó Cuív, Brian, Catalogue of Irish language manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford college libraries. Part 1: Descriptions, Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, DIAS, 2001.
21–23 [id. 12.]
Madan, Falconer, and H. E. E. Craster, Summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, vol. 6: Accessions, 1890-1915, nos. 31001–37299, Oxford: Clarendon, 1924.
Bodleian Library: <link>
62 [id. 31530.]
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
February 2023, last updated: December 2023
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