Texts

Dinnshenchas of Slíab Comailt

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A version of the beginning of the text known as Immathchor nAilella ocus Airt.

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336/6.2

incipit: Comalt ind uaithnib. Cid di ata?

A version of the beginning of the text known as Immathchor nAilella ocus Airt. Ed. CIH 2128.34-2129.5.

col. 849.20–col. 850.7

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336/6.2

incipit: Comalt ind uaithnib. Cid di ata

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Corthals, Johan [ed.], “Affiliation of children: Immathchor nAilella ⁊ Airt”, Peritia 9 (1995): 92–124.

abstract:

This is an edition and translation of an Old-Irish legal text, dating probably from c.700, and describing a lawsuit on the assignment of twins, after their mother Sadb had been repudiated by their father Ailill Aulomm. A decision is reached on the basis of principles governing marriage and an ordeal is avoided. The legal proceedings are represented as being conducted in a highly artistic style, commonly called rosc or retoiric in Irish studies, and deriving from late antique and medieval rhetoric.

97–98

[dipl. ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.

Numbered pp. 1926–2343; diplomatic edition of legal material from: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 (continued) -- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1387 -- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502 -- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1308 -- London, British Library, MS Additional 4783 -- London, British Library, MS Nero A 7 -- Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS NKS 261b -- Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 3 -- Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 11 -- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C i 2 -- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16 -- Dublin, Trinity College, MS E 3. 3.

2128.34–2129.5 Diplomatic edition

[ed.] Duncan, Lilian, “Sliab Comailt. Trinity College, H. 3. 17. col. 849”, Hermathena 17:38 (1912): 176.