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Irish grammatical tracts/III
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Early Modern Irish bardic tract on irregular verbs, one of the so-called Irish grammatical tracts.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C i 3/B
Followed by Irish grammatical tract IV.
pp. 1a–25b, followed by IV (up to 27a)
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1305
Incl. IV. Copy of IGT III-IV noted by Pádraig A. Breatnach. See Ó Riain 2018.
ff. 1r–17r
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1319/pp. 195-278
(I) Irish grammatical tract on the verb, “mainly written by one scribe, helped here and there by a second” (Gwynn).
p. 195a–
Sources
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[ed.] Bergin, Osborn, “Irish grammatical tracts: III and IV”, Ériu 14 (supplement, 1946): 167–257.
Critical edition (continued) of Irish grammatical tracts, comprising parts III (on irregular verbs, pp 167–250; from TCD 1319) and IV (on abstract nouns, pp 251–257)
167–250 Based on TCD MS 1319, with variant readings from E and C.
Secondary sources (select)
Ó Riain, Gordon, “Terminology in the grammatical tracts: ciall teasaidheachta”, Ériu 68 (2018): 55–64.
abstract:
It has been held that the Irish grammatical tracts do not have a term for the relative clause. In this article, previously overlooked terms are identified and the passages in which they occur in the grammatical tracts are discussed.
