Texts

Táin bó Cúailnge I

Incoming data

A catalogue entry is available.

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25

rubric: Táin bó Cúailnge inso sís. incipit: TARCOMLÁD slóiged mór la Connachtu First recension. Incomplete.

p. 55a.1–p. 82b.44

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25

Interpolated by H. End missing.

ff. 55a–82b

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1288

Transcribed from Egerton 1782, ff. 88r–105v

f. 3–f. 25

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16 (cols 573-958)

Beginning missing.

pp. 17a–53a (facsimile) cols 573–644

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16 (cols 573-958)

First recension. Beginning missing.

p. 17a–p. 53a = col. 573–col. 644

MS

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782

Interpolated version of Recension I. There is a gap on f. 98 and the text ends imperfect. A transcript written by Aodh Ó Dálaigh (c. 1750) is found in TCD 1288.

f. 88r–f. 105v

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782

Interpolated. End missing.

ff. 88r–105v

Text

Maynooth, Russell Library, MS C 1

Interpolated. Beginning and end missing.

pp. 1–76

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.] [tr.] OʼRahilly, Cecile [ed. and tr.], Táin bó Cúailnge: Recension I, Dublin: DIAS, 1976.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link>

[ed.] Strachan, John, and J. G. OʼKeeffe [eds.], The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan: with variant readings from the Lebor na Huidre, Dublin and London: Royal Irish Academy, 1912.

comments: Reprinted in 1967

Wikisource – Wikisource (not fully proofread): <link> Internet Archive: <link>

[ed.] Windisch, Ernst [ed.], “Táin bó Cúailnge nach der Handschrift Egerton 1782”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 121–158.

Internet Archive: <link>

[ed.] Ó Fiannachta, Pádraig [ed.], Táin Bó Cuailnge: the Maynooth manuscript, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1966.

Edited from the O'Curry MS.

[tr.] Carson, Ciarán [tr.], The Táin: translated from the old Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Penguin Classics, London: Penguin, 2007.

Translation based on O’Rahilly’s editions of Recension II, LL, and Recension I.