Texts

Sechtae

Old Irish
prose
Early Irish law texts

Legal heptads of the Senchas Már collection.

Cf. Additional heptads.

Title

Sechtae

Legal heptads referred to as na ṡechta (‘the sevens’) in legal commentaries.⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978): 1584.11–12; Fergus Kelly, A guide to early Irish law (1988): 266.

Manuscripts

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 487 3, ff. 53–67 [s. xv]

ff. 53ra.1–64ra.28

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 1, cols 1-350

cols 255–303

Language

Old Irish

Date

“put together in the O. Ir. period” (Kelly).⁽²⁾^{n. 2} Fergus Kelly, A guide to early Irish law (1988): 266.

Form

prose (primary)

Classification

Early Irish law textsEarly Irish law texts
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Sources

Notes

^1.

D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978): 1584.11–12; Fergus Kelly, A guide to early Irish law (1988): 266.

^2.

Fergus Kelly, A guide to early Irish law (1988): 266.

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.

Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici: ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum, 7 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.

The standard diplomatic edition of early Irish law texts, undertaken by D. A. Binchy and published in 7 volumes.

1.1-64.5; 1881.9-1896.22; 537.16-549.18; 1821.28-1854.36.

Hancock, W. Neilson, Thaddeus OʼMahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson [ed. and tr.], Ancient laws of Ireland, 6 vols, vol. 5: Uraicecht Becc and certain other selected Brehon law tracts, Stationery Office: Dublin, 1901.

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199–351 English translations.