Texts
Athgabál bech
Incoming data
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Old Irish legal passage (CIH 898.19-27) on ‘the distraint of bees’, which forms part of a commentary on the various forms of distraint.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/13
context: Irish text on the forms of distraint CIH 898.19-27.
Sources
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[ed.] Charles-Edwards, T. M., and Fergus Kelly, Bechbretha: an Old Irish law-tract on bee-keeping, Early Irish Law Series, 1, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983.
App. 6: 189 (text), 190–191 (commentary)
[dipl. ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 3, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.
comments: numbered pp. 745–1138; diplomatic edition of legal material from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 (continued, pp. 745–1109); Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1317 (pp. 1111–1138)
898.19–27
