Texts

Is fisigh cidh dia ndernad Adham

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Irish text on the divisions of Adam

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iv 2

incipit: Doraidhetar dono na hubduir corub do acht rannaibh doronadh Adhamh Followed by verse beg. Ceann ard Adhaimh etrocht radh.

ff. 51(53)vb.i–52(54)ra.19

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iv 2

incipit: Doraidhetar dono na hubduir corub do acht rannaibh doronadh Adham incl. Cenn ard Adaim étrocht rád Prose and poem (4 qq) beg. Ceann ard Adhaimh etrocht radh.

in section: f. 51(53)vb.inf–f. 52(54)r

Text

London, British Library, MS Additional 4783/ff. 3-7

incipit: Is fisigh cidh dia ndernad Adham .i. uii rannaib

f. 7

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 136

incipit: Abrom cidh dia ndernadh Adhomh

f. 74b

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782

incipit: Is hedh innso immorro na secht rainn dia ndernadh Adham

f. 45b

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed.], Three Irish glossaries: Cormac’s Glossary, O’Davoren’s Glossary and a glossary to the Calendar of Oengus the Culdee, London: Williams and Norgate, 1862.

TLH – ‘Cormac’s Glossary’ (pp. 1-44): <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link>

xl–xli direct link

[ed.] Förster, Max, “Die mittelirische Version von Adams Erschaffung”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 13 (1921): 47–48.

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Stokes's text is reproduced with the Latin version in parallel.

[tr.] Stokes, Whitley, “Man octipartite: from the Middle-Irish, Cod. Clarend. (Mus. Brit.), vol. xv, fol. 7a, col. 1”, The Academy 26 (1884): 236.

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English translation rendered in verse form.

Secondary sources (select)

McNamara, Martin, The apocrypha in the Irish Church, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1975.

21–23 [id. 4. ‘Adam octipartite’]

Tristram, Hildegard L. C., “Der ‘homo octipartitus’ in der irischen und altenglischen Literatur”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 34 (1975): 119–153.

Flower, Robin, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 2, London: British Museum, 1926.

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522–524

Stokes, Whitley, “Mélanges: Mythological notes”, Revue Celtique 1 (1870–1872): 256–262, 502.

comments: These notes continue those in the preface of Whitley Stokes, Three Irish glossaries: Cormac’s Glossary, O’Davoren’s Glossary and a glossary to the Calendar of Oengus the Culdee (1862) and in Whitley Stokes • John O'Donovan, Sanas Chormaic: Cormac’s Glossary (1868) and are continued in Whitley Stokes, ‘Mythological notes’, Revue Celtique 2 (1873–1875).

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item 6 [‘Man octipartite’] direct link