Texts
Mittelirische Verslehren II
Incoming data
Middle Irish metrical tract which enumerates and illustrates various metrical forms to be mastered by a learned poet (file). The main body of the text is structured around the curriculum of a file in training, for whose benefit the textbook appears to have been compiled.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12
Related text, printed by Thurneysen in his appendix.
pp. 306a (line 43)–306b (line 10)
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Leabhar na Rátha
Text continues from f. 81r (below) and is continued on f. 90r, in both cases without break.
f. 82r–
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Leabhar na Rátha
Continued, without break, from f. 82v. The ending of the text is wanting.
f. 90r–
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Leabhar na Rátha
Continues on f. 82r (above).
f. 81vb.9
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Leabhar na Rátha
Almost complete, except the beginning of the introduction and the conclusion
ff. 80r–80v and 90r–92v
Sources
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], “Mittelirische Verslehren”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 3, Leipzig, 1891. 1–182.
comments: An index of verse metries and initial lines of verse is provided at the end of this contribution.
Internet Archive: <link>
29–66 direct link
Secondary sources (select)
Breatnach, Pádraig A., “The metres of citations in the Irish grammatical tracts”, Éigse 32 (2000): 7–22.
Campanile, Enrico, “Mittelirische Verslehren II, 96-98”, Studi e Saggi Linguistici 6 (1966): 160–165.
Ó hAodha, Donncha, “The first Middle Irish metrical tract”, in: Hildegard L. C. Tristram (ed.), Metrik und Medienwechsel / Metrics and media, 35, Tübingen: Narr, 1991. 207–244.
Breatnach, Liam [ed. and tr.], Uraicecht na ríar: the poetic grades in early Irish law, Early Irish Law Series, 2, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1987.
58–59
Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], “Mittelirische Verslehren”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 3, Leipzig, 1891. 1–182.
comments: An index of verse metries and initial lines of verse is provided at the end of this contribution.
Internet Archive: <link>
