Texts
Da cuincead neach a ndliged
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Irish poem (9 qq) on the seven grades of poets (filid), which is typically found at the end of, or in association with, certain copies of Auraicept na n-éces. It is one of several prose and verse texts on the subject that ultimately derive from the Uraicecht becc.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 138
incipit: Da cuincead neach a ndliged 9 qq.
p. 116a
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12
context: Auraicept na n-éces incipit: Da cuincead neach a ndliged 9 qq.
pp. 332(179v)b.inf–333(180r)a.m
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1
context: Auraicept na n-éces 9 qq.
pp. 332(179v)b.inf–333(180r)a.17
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1432
context: Auraicept na n-éces incipit: Dia cuingeadh neach andliged
9 qq.
p. 18a.25-18b.16
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.
