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| Initial words        = ''Ma be rí rofesser / recht flatho'' (''Mad bé ríg rofessir / recht flatha'') <br> "If you are a king you should know the prerogative of a ruler"
|Title='Mad bé ríg rofessir recht flatha'
| Manuscripts   = * {{TCD 1337}}, f. 7a-7b. Only manuscript.<ref name="Binchy1971,152-3">Binchy, "An archaic legal poem" (1971), 152-153</ref>
|TranslatedTitle=If you are a king you should know the prerogative of a ruler
| Language       = [[Language::Old Irish]]<ref>Although "most of the archaic forms and orthography have been ironed out" in the manuscript, "the poem passes most of the tests used to distinguish archaic from 'classical' Old Irish." Binchy, "An archaic legal poem" (1971), 152-153.</ref>
|Initial words=Ma be rí rofesser / recht flatho
| Date          =
|Manuscripts=* {{MS |TCD 1337 |folio= 7a-7b |commentary= Only manuscript.}}<ref name="Binchy1971,152-3">Binchy, "An archaic legal poem" (1971), 152-153</ref>
| Provenance    =
|Language= [[Language::Old Irish]]<ref>Although "most of the archaic forms and orthography have been ironed out" in the manuscript, "the poem passes most of the tests used to distinguish archaic from 'classical' Old Irish." Binchy, "An archaic legal poem" (1971), 152-153.</ref>
| Description   = Legal poem cited at the end of ''[[Críth Gablach]]''.<ref name="Binchy1971,152-3" /> It numbers 104 lines in Binchy's edition.
|Description=Legal poem cited at the end of ''[[Críth Gablach]]''.<ref name="Binchy1971,152-3" /> It numbers 104 lines in Binchy's edition.
| Keywords      =
|Categories=Early Irish law texts; Early Irish poetry
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|Editions={{Cite |Bincy 1971}}
 
{{Cite |MacNeill 1924 |at=308-311. }}
==Sources==
{{Cite |Meyer 1918e6}}
 
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===Editions and translations===
* Binchy, David (ed. and tr.). "An archaic legal poem." ''Celtica'' 9 (1971): 152-168.
* Mac Neill, Eóin (ed. and tr.). "The law of status or franchise." ''Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy'' 36 C (1924): 281–306: 308-311.
* Meyer, Kuno (ed.). "Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften. Der Schluß von ''Críth Gablach''." ''Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie'' 12 (1918): 358-97: 365-66.
 
===Secondary sources===
 
[[Category:Early Irish law texts]]
[[Category:Early Irish poetry]]

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