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Bardic syntactical tracts
prose
verse
A collection of Irish tracts on grammar and to a small extent, metre in bardic poetry, replete with specimens from selected poems.
Comhardadh cionnas is cóir
verse
20 st.
beg. Comhardadh cionnas is cóir
Feadha an oghaim aithnidh damh
verse
53 st.
beg. Feadha an oghaim aithnidh damh
Mac an Bháird (Gofraidh Fionn)Mac an Bháird (Gofraidh Fionn)
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Irish bardic poem (53qq) on the principles of rhyme in Irish poetry.
Irish grammatical tracts
form undefined
Textbook compilations of Irish bardic schools on the proper uses of grammar. The tracts constitute a rich and valuable source for Irish bardic poetry, specimens of which are amply cited, and offers evidence for many different aspects of Classical Modern Irish.
Irish grammatical tracts/I
prose
list
One of the so-called Irish grammatical tracts. Osborn Bergin, the first (modern) editor, suggested it is later in composition than the other tracts and described it as forming an ‘introductory’ primer to (some of) the other texts, covering as it does “a mass of information on spelling and pronunciation, metrics, the government of prepositions, syntax, nominal composition and derivation [along with an] amount of explanation and commentary”. As the tract fails to address some of the issues it raises at the beginning, it has the appearance of being incomplete.
Irish grammatical tracts/V
prose
list
Early Modern Irish tract on metrical faults, one of the so-called Irish grammatical tracts.
Irish tract on poetry (TCD 1337 fragment)
prose
Two fragments of what may have been a single Irish tract on poets and poetry, preserved on a fragment of vellum in TCD 1337 (p. 869).
Mittelirische Verslehren I
prose
verse
Irish tract on the poetic metres that the seven grades of the noble bards (sóerbaird) had to master. Every type of metre is illustrated by a stanza from a bardic poem. Many of the poems cited in this way are no longer extant in their complete form.
Mittelirische Verslehren II
verse
prose
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.
Mittelirische Verslehren III
prose
verse
A Middle Irish metrical tract intended to enumerate and illustrate various metrical types, both common and uncommon.
Mittelirische Verslehren IV
verse
14 st.
beg. Sluindfet dúib dagaisti in dána
Cellach úa RúanadaCellach úa Rúanada
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Middle Irish poem ascribed to Cellach úa Rúanada in which for educational purposes, every stanza is composed in a different metrical form.
Retlu fhilideachta
prose
Trefhocul tract
prosimetrum
Cináed úa Con Mind
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Cináed úa Con Mind
(d. 958)
bishop of Lismore and Inis Cathaig, possibly the author of the so-called Trefhocul tract on metrical faults and related topics.
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Middle Irish tract on metrical faults and related matters, attributed to Cináed úa Con Mind and containing many citations from Irish verse.
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