Texts

Suidiugad Tige Midchúarta

Early Irish
Medieval Irish literature

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

pp. 29a–29b

Seating plan, prose introduction and poem (22 stanzas).

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 5, cols 217-280 = YBL section [1407]

p. 418 (facsimile) col. 244

Together with an account of Solomon’s palace

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv^ex/xvⁱⁿ]

p. 140 (facsimile) col. 810

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 [1516-1518]

f. 45v

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 2 (1080) [1627-1628]

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1286 2 [c.1746]

p. 93 (line 23) ff

Prose account and poem.

Language

Early Irish

Date

While the earliest manuscript, the Book of Leinster, dates to the 12th century, Sayers states that “linguistic and other evidence points to content from appreciably earlier”.⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} William Sayers, ‘A cut above. Ration and station in an Irish king’s hall’, Food and Foodways 4 (1990): 90..

Classification

Medieval Irish literatureMedieval Irish literature
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Sources

Notes

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William Sayers, ‘A cut above. Ration and station in an Irish king’s hall’, Food and Foodways 4 (1990): 90..

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.

[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. OʼBrien, and Anne OʼSullivan [eds.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983.

CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>

Vol. 1: 116–120. Diplomatic edition of the LL text.

[ed.] [tr.] Gilbert, John T. [ed.], Facsimiles of national manuscripts of Ireland, 5 vols, Dublin: Public Record Office of Ireland, 1874–1884.

Four parts in five volumes; photozincographed “by command of Her Majesty Queen Victoria by Major-General Sir Henry James” (d. 1877), who was director-general of the Ordnance Survey; vols 2–4 have imprint “selected and edited [by Gilbert] under the direction of the Right Hon. Edward Sullivan, Master of the Rolls in Ireland”.

Edition and translation by Brian O'Looney: of the LL text in pt. II (1878), with a reproduction on plate LIII; and of the YBL text in pt. III (1879), with reproduction on plate XXIV.

[ed.] Petrie, George, and John OʼDonovan [collaborator], “On the history and antiquities of Tara Hill”, Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 18 (1839): 25–232.

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196–212 The edition by O'Donovan. direct link

[ed.] Vallancey, Charles, “Description of the banqueting-hall, of Tamar or Tara; with a plan of the same, from an antient Irish Manuscript, in Trinity College, Dublin”, in: Charles Vallancey (ed.), Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis, 6 vols, vol. 3, Dublin, 1786. 512–541.

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