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Irish grammatical tracts/I

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One of the so-called Irish grammatical tracts. Osborn Bergin, the first (modern) editor, suggested it is later in composition than the other tracts and described it as forming an ‘introductory’ primer to (some of) the other texts, covering as it does “a mass of information on spelling and pronunciation, metrics, the government of prepositions, syntax, nominal composition and derivation [along with an] amount of explanation and commentary”. As the tract fails to address some of the issues it raises at the beginning, it has the appearance of being incomplete.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 8

Main manuscript witness.

pp. 3–48

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 1a

Fragments

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1289

Copy by Tadhg Ó Neachtain.

Text

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.2.2

Fragments

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Mac Cárthaigh, Eoin, The art of bardic poetry: a new edition of Irish grammatical tracts I, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2014.

[ed.] Bergin, Osborn, “Irish grammatical tracts [I and II, §§ 1–11]”, Ériu 8 (supplement, 1916): i–v, 1–60.

Critical edition of Irish grammatical tracts I (introductory part, pp 1–36) and part of II (on declension), §§ 1-11 (pp 37–60)

1–36 (§§ 1–159, omitting metrical terms in §2), iv (preface)