Texts

A chóicid choín Chairpri crúaid

Incoming data

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Manuscript witnesses

Text

Castlerea, Clonalis House, Book of O'Conor Don

37qq.

f. 383v

Text

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 7

37qq.

cols 15–18

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 14

“in part ... a very bad copy of N” (O'Daly)

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 2

37qq.

f. 132r

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 2

35qq (§§ 12-13 are missing).

f. 79v

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

rubric: Orthanach hua Cellama Cuirrich cecinit Poem (22qq are extant). The first portion is missing due to a lacuna. Begins, in the middle of quatrain 13, “ria mBresalbuadach co mbúaid ba lúath a chéim Chairpri cháeim” and the quatrain that follows, “Cath cruaid Cnamrois rind.”

p. 43a–p. 43b

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

incipit: ...buadach co mbúaid ba lúath a chéim Chairpri cháeim Incomplete. Due to a lacuna, the first 12 stanzas and part of stanza 13 (§ 13c) are wanting; §§ 17 and 22 of O'Daly's edition are not found and the order of the quatrains is somewhat anomalous.

pp. 43a–43b

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1363/4 (pp. 40-53)

“asin leabhar ceadna. Poem giving brief accounts of certain battles: Crothais indna fri cach eirr faibur flaind ferdae drong” (Abbott). First line looks like a verse from A chóicid choín Chairpri crúaid.

p. 45.24

MS

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)

context: Laídshenchas Laigen incipit: A choicid choem Chairpri chruaid incl. A chóicid choín Chairpri crúaid [Poem 15]

in section: f. 50v(88)

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)

context: Laídshenchas Laigen incipit: A chóicid chóem Chairpri chrúaid §§ 1-4 only. The remainder of the MS text is lost.

f. 50v

Sources

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.] O Daly, Máirín [ed.], “A chóicid choín Chairpri crúaid”, Éigse 10:3 (1962–1963): 177–197.

Edited from NLI MS G 7, with variants.

[ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 1, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954. 260 pp. + 4 pl.

CELT – edition (pp. 1-260): <link>

202–205 (lines 6067–6157) Diplomatic edition of the text in LL.