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Gúbretha Caratniad
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Early Irish legal tract consisting of a brief prologue and an extended dialogue between Conn Cétchathach and his judge Caratnia concerning 51 judgments that are ostensibly flawed yet are supported by exceptions to the norm.
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MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
‘The false judgments of Caratnia’
f. 62v(112)b.44
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
CIH 2192.1-2199.26. Complete, glossed copy.
f. 62v(112)b.44ff
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[ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.
comments: numbered pp. 1926–2343; diplomatic edition of legal material from:
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 (continued)
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1387
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1308
- London, British Library, MS Additional 4783
- London, British Library, MS Nero A 7
- Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS NKS 261b
- Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 3
- Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 11
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C i 2
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS E 3. 3
2192.1–2199.26 Rawlinson B 502.
[ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.
Volume 5 of the Corpus iuris Hibernici, which is numbered pp. 1532–1925, contains diplomatic editions of legal material from TCD 1363 (H 4. 22), the Book of Ballymote (RIA 23 P 12), BL Egerton 90 and TCD 1336 (H 3. 17).
1582.1–25 TCD 1363/8.
[ed.] [tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Aus dem irischen Recht III: 4. Die falschen Urteilssprüche Caratnia’s”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 15 (1925): 302–370.
[add.] [corr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed. and tr.], “Aus dem irischen Recht IV [6. Zu den bisherigen Ausgaben der irischen Rechtstexte]”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 16 (1926–1927): 167–230.
214–229
[add.] [corr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Aus dem irischen Recht V [7. Zu Gūbretha Caratniad; 8. Zum ursprünglichen Umfang des Senchas Mār; 9. Zu der Etymologie von irisch rāth ‘Bürgschaft’ und zu der irischen Kanonensammlung und der Triaden; 10. Nachträge zur Bürgschaft]”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 18 (1930): 353–408.
353–356
