Texts
Auraicept na n-éces
Incoming data
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/15
A version which does not contain the poem on the Trefhocul. It is preceded by a text of In lebor ollaman.
cols 504–549
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1319/pp. 195-278
Imperfect copy. See Hofman and Smelik below
pp. 195 ff
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1363/14 (pp. 159-210)
Intermediate between the shorter and longer recension (Calder); does not contain the poem on the Trefhocul. See Calder, pp. 159-207.
pp. 167–186, 197–198, 187–210
Sources
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[ed.] [tr.] Calder, George [ed. and tr.], Auraicept na n-Éces: The scholars’ primer, being the texts of the Ogham tract from the Book of Ballymote and the Yellow book of Lecan, and the text of the Trefhocul from the Book of Leinster, Edinburgh: John Grant, 1917.
Secondary sources (select)
Acken, James, Structure and interpretation in the Auraicept na nÉces, Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008.
Acken, James, “Lexical specificity in the Auraicept na nÉces”, in: Sarah Sheehan, Joanne Findon, and Westley Follett (eds), Gablánach in scélaigecht: Celtic studies in honour of Ann Dooley, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. 116–130.
Ahlqvist, Anders, “An Irish text on the letters of the alphabet”, in: A. M. Simon-Vandenbergen (ed.), Studies in honour of René Derolez, Ghent: Ghent University, 1987. 3–16.
Ahlqvist, Anders, “Latin grammar and native learning”, in: Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Liam Breatnach, and Kim R. McCone (eds), Sages, saints and storytellers: Celtic studies in honour of Professor James Carney, 2, Maynooth: An Sagart, 1989. 1–6.
Hofman, Rijcklof, and Bernadette Smelik, “An unnoticed copy of the Auraicept na n-Éces in MS TCD H.2.17”, in: Bernadette Smelik, Rijcklof Hofman, Camiel Hamans, and David Cram (eds), A companion in linguistics: a Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Nijmegen: Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak, 2005. 63–65.
Hofman, Rijcklof, “Latin grammars and the structure of the vernacular Old Irish Auraicept na nÉces”, in: Mary Garrison, Arpad P. Orbán, and Marco Mostert (eds), Spoken and written language: relations between Latin and the vernacular languages in the earlier Middle Ages, 24, Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. 185–198.
McLaughlin, Roisin, “Fénius Farsaid and the alphabets”, Ériu 59 (2009): 1–24.
abstract:
This paper examines evidence for the existence of an alternative tradition to that found in Auraicept na nÉces concerning the role played by Fénius Farsaid in the invention of the alphabet of Irish and those of the three sacred languages—Hebrew, Greek and Latin. The sources to be considered are Auraicept na nÉces, In Lebor Ollaman, a Middle Irish text in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud 610, glosses on the copy of Auraicept na nÉces in TCD MS E 3.3 (1432) and the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville.
Poppe, Erich, “Latinate terminology in Auraicept na nÉces”, in: David Cram, Andrew Linn, and Elke Nowak (eds), History of linguistics 1996: selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Oxford, 12–17 September 1996, vol. 1: Traditions in linguistics worldwide., Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999. 191–201.
External links
CODECS: Calder's edition in parallel. Transcribed and tabulated by Rijcklof Hofman
