Texts

Manuscript witnesses

Text
pp. 74 ff   
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 
incipit: Adam .i. homo no terragena   
p. 263a–p. 272b.m
Text
pp. 263–272.   
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 
Beginning only. ~ YBL, §§ 1-1224.
pp. 177ra–184ra   
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1317/pp. 77-104 
Scribe: Dubhaltach Mac Firbhisigh.
pp. 77–102   
Text
pp. 255a–283a (facsimile)   cols 3–87
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
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 
Fragment ~ YBL, §§ 1224-34 and 1268-75
p. 179a-179b  
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
Text
London, British Library, MS Harley 5280 
Entries for Mug Éme and Prull
f. 75r-75v  
MS
London, British Library, MS Harley 5280 
Entries for Mug Éme and Prull
f. 75r–f. 75v
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
Text
ff. 79r–84r  
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.] 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>
[ed.] Stokes, Whitley [ed.], and John OʼDonovan [tr.], Sanas Chormaic: Cormac’s Glossary, Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, Calcutta: O.T. Cutter, 1868.
Internet Archive: <link> HathiTrust: <link>, <link> Google Books: <link>
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “On the Bodleian fragment of Cormac’s Glossary”, Transactions of the Philological Society 22 (1891–4, 1894): 149–206.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link>, <link>
[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).
Internet Archive – vols 1-5: <link> Internet Archive – vols 3-5: <link>

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.
Russell, Paul, “The sounds of a silence: the growth of Cormac's Glossary”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 15 (1988): 1–30.