Texts

verse beg. Cóictach, descipul, foglaintid

  • Middle Irish
  • verse

Medieval Irish poem attributed to the Munster scholar Máel Suthain Úa Cerbaill (d. 1010), dealing with the ecclesiastical and secular grades.

First words (verse)
  • Cóictach, descipul, foglaintid
Author
Ascribed to: Úa Cerbaill (Máel Suthain)Úa Cerbaill (Máel Suthain)
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Language
  • Middle Irish
  • To be verified.
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 10
Textual relationships
Related: Mittelirische Verslehren IIMittelirische Verslehren II

Middle Irish metrical tract which enumerates and illustrates various metrical forms to be mastered by a learned poet (file). The main body of the text is structured around the curriculum of a file in training, for whose benefit the textbook appears to have been compiled.

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Classification

Subjects

seven grades of the churchyet to be classified, numerical motifs, legal motifs and themes
seven grades of the church
id. 25987

i.e. sevenfold division of the grades of the church, a concept current in early Irish law by analogy with the seven grades of the laity

Sources

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[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Siebenteilung aller geistlichen und weltlichen Rangstufen”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 5 (1905): 498–499.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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February 2019, last updated: July 2023