Texts
Trefhocul tract
Incoming data
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Middle Irish tract on metrical faults and related matters, attributed to Cináed úa Con Mind and containing many citations from Irish verse.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
rubric: TREfocul incipit: Can chlóen can rudrach Annotated poem, cited by Mittelirische Verslehren.
p. 37a–
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.] Calder, George [ed. and tr.], Auraicept na n-Éces: The scholars’ primer, being the texts of the Ogham tract from the Book of Ballymote and the Yellow book of Lecan, and the text of the Trefhocul from the Book of Leinster, Edinburgh: John Grant, 1917.
[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 1, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954. 260 pp. + 4 pl.
CELT – edition (pp. 1-260): <link>
165–172
Secondary sources (select)
Hollo, Kaarina, “Metrical irregularity in Old and Middle Irish syllabic verse”, in: Anders Ahlqvist, Harri Nyberg, Glyn Welden Banks, and Tom Sjöblom (eds), Celtica Helsingiensia. Proceedings from a Symposium on Celtic Studies, 107, Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1996. 47–56.
