Texts

The catalogue entry for this text has not been published as yet. Until then, a selection of data is made available below.

Early Irish prayer which invokes St Patrick and was composed, according to the prose attribution, by either Niníne the poet (éces) or Fíacc of Sleibte (Sletty, Co. Laois).

Manuscript witnesses

Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1441 
context: Irish Liber hymnorum   incipit: Admuinemmar noeb Patraicc   
f. 16v  
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1441 
rubric: Níníne écess doríne in n-orthainn-sse, no Fiac Sleibte.   incipit: Admuinemmair noeb-Patraicc   Prayer attributed to Nínine éces or Fíacc of Sletty (f. 16r). The prayer begins on f. 16v.
f. 16v
Text
Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 2 
context: Irish Liber hymnorum   incipit: Admunemmar noeb Patraic   Copy with interlinear glosses.
p. 38  

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] Stokes, Whitley, and John Strachan [eds.], Thesaurus palaeohibernicus: a collection of Old-Irish glosses, scholia, prose, and verse, 3 vols, vol. 2: Non-Biblical glosses and scholia; Old-Irish prose; names of persons and places; inscriptions; verse; indexes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903.  
comments: Reprinted by DIAS in 1987, together with Stokes' supplementary volume.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Wikisource: <link>
322 (text and translation); xxxviii (introduction) Based on the TCD MS, with variants from the Franciscan MS in the footnotes.
[ed.] Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson [eds.], The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, vol. 1: Text and introduction, Henry Bradshaw Society, 13, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.  
comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction
Volume 2: Translation
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> – originally from Google Books: <link>
105
[tr] Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson, The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, vol. 2: Translation and notes, Henry Bradshaw Society, 14, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.  
comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction
Volume 2: Translation
Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books (missing: pp. 18-19, 86-87): <link>
36 (tr.), 187 (notes)