Texts
Sanas Cormaic
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Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1317/pp. 13-38
Scribe: Fland.
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/2 (cols. 3-122)
i.e. Cormac's glossary (text B), one of the longer versions that exist of the text.
p. 255a– p. 283a = col. 3– col. 87
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
incipit: Fuirim gein toracta tairet aicned n-oll o Adam co n-imthet tre cach n-amsir n-adamrai co betha bráth [...] Fragment.
p. 179a– p. 179b
MS
Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 12
incipit: Adhamh id est homo vel terrigena on talmuideacht Cormac's Glossary.
p. 1– p. 40
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Leabhar na Rátha
Continued from f. 80v, still written in three columns.
f. 83ra– f. 86rc.33
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Leabhar na Rátha
incipit: hurusa a thaiscelad ind. Imbus forosnai Both beginning and ending are wanting. The extant text in this MS corresponds to §§ 756-1224 of the Yellow Book of Lecan. Written in three columns.
f. 79r– f. 80vb
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.
[dig. ed.] Russell, Paul, Sharon Arbuthnot, and Pádraic Moran, Early Irish glossaries database, Online: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2010–. URL: <http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries>.
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Sanas Cormaic. An Old-Irish glossary compiled by Cormac úa Cuilennáin, king-bishop of Cashel in the tenth century”, in: Osborn Bergin, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 4, Halle and Dublin, 1912. 1–128 (text), i–xix (introduction).
Secondary sources (select)
Russell, Paul, “Poets, power and possessions in medieval Ireland: some stories from Sanas Cormaic”, in: Joseph F. Eska (ed.), Law, literature and society, 7, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 9–45.