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Colum caid cumachtach
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Prayer (5st in ochtfhoclach metre) for Colum Cille attributed to Cainnech.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25
Occurs not long after Amra Choluim Chille and its commentary.
p. 15a
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12
context: Mittelirische Verslehren II First line (and part of what follows) quoted.
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
context: Mittelirische Verslehren II First line quoted.
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
rubric: Cainnech do rigni in n-orthainse incipit: Colum caid cumachtach Poem (5st) on Colum Cille attributed to Cainnech.
f. 60r(107)a.19
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
rubric: Cainnech do rigni in n-orthainse’ incipit: Colum caid cumachtach Occurs not long after Amra Choluim Chille and its commentary.
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[ed.] [tr.] Pokorny, Julius, “Ein altirisches Gebet zu St. Columba”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 8 (1912): 285–288.
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[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], “Mittelirische Verslehren”, in: Windisch, Ernst, and Whitley Stokes (eds.), Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 3:1, Leipzig, 1891. 1–182.
comments: An index of verse metries and initial lines of verse is provided at the end of this contribution.
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