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Timna Chathaír Máir ‘The testament of Cathaír Már’

  • Old Irish
  • Medieval Irish literature
Manuscripts
Recension I:
B =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]
ff. 74rb.1–75ra.39 pp. 127b.1–129a.39
L =
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 pp. 377–410 = Supplement to the Book of Leinster [c. s. xvi]
pp. 385c.6–386b.53
Supplement to the Book of Leinster, c. 16th century.
Recension II:
Lec =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan (Leabhar Leacain) [s. xvin]
ff. 200b.28–200d.26
B =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]
ff. 152rb.12–152va.48 pp. 277b.12–278a.48
M =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]
ff. 139b.15–139c.21
Lec =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan (Leabhar Leacain) [s. xvin]
ff. 87a.1–87b.38
Language
  • Old Irish
  • Old Irish: “Some of the late verbal forms in the Testament can readily be restored as Old Irish. Others would require drastic emendation, but these may be explained as due to improvisation by scribes writing from memory a poem they could no longer fully understand, or substituting late forms for forms long since obsolete. The Testament may have been composed as early as the eighth century, and it may derive from an oral tradition even more ancient” (Dillon).(1)n. 1 Myles Dillon, Lebor na Cert: The Book of Rights (1962): 148.
Date
8th century(?). See Dillon above.
Metre
heptasyllabic, alliterative

    Classification

    Medieval Irish literatureMedieval Irish literature
    ...

    Subjects

    Cathaír Mór
    Cathaír Mór
    (time-frame ass. with Cathaír Mór)
    Cathaír Mór (earlier Catháer Már), legendary high-king of Ireland, ancestor figure of the Laigin
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    Sources

    Notes

    1.
    Myles Dillon, Lebor na Cert: The Book of Rights (1962): 148.

    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.

    [ed.] [tr.] Dillon, Myles [ed. and tr.], Lebor na Cert: The Book of Rights, Irish Texts Society, 46, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1962.
    CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
    148–178 Appendix A direct link
    [ed.] [tr.] OʼDonovan, John [ed. and tr.], Leabhar na g-Ceart, or the Book of rights, Dublin: Celtic Society, 1847.
    Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
    192–203 direct link

    Secondary sources (select)

    Dillon, Myles, “The manuscript tradition of the Testament of Catháer Már”, in: Sylvester OʼBrien [ed.], Measgra i gcuimhne Mhichíl Uí Chléirigh .i. Miscellany of historical and linguistic studies in honour of Brother Michael Ó Cléirigh, O.F.M., Chief of the Four Masters, 1643-1943, Dublin, 1944. 201–209.
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    Contributors
    Dennis Groenewegen
    Page created
    September 2011, last updated: March 2024
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