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1. Dublin, TCL, 1316, olim H. 2. 15A, pp. 53a–59b. This is the second fragment of a composite MS, being pp. 39–42, 47–66 (facsimile pp. 29–52); date unknown but likely to be s. xiv; two scribes, glosses by four or more other hands. Facsimile edition. R. I. Best & Rudolf Thurneysen (eds.), Senchas Már: facsimile of the oldest fragments from MS H. 2. 15 in the Library of Trinity College, Facsimiles in Collotype of Irish Manuscripts, 1 (Dublin, 1931), 39a4–45b14. This MS alone contains a full text of Cáin lánamna. Text edited in D. A. Binchy, Corpus iuris hibernici (Dublin, 1979), ii 502–19.
2. Dublin, TCL, 1336 olim H. 3. 17, columns 233–43; s. xvi. The manuscript is made up of several parts of differing provenance bound together and is a miscellany of legal, historical, religious and narrative texts. The MS contains extracts from Cáin lánamna. Text edited in D. A. Binchy, Corpus iuris hibernici (Dublin, 1979), v 1804–12.
3. Dublin, TCL, 1337 olim H. 3. 18, p. 381a; vellum and paper; s. xvi. A collection of fragments of different MSS. The MS fragment contains short glossed extracts from Cáin lánamna. Text edited in D. A. Binchy, Corpus iuris hibernici (Dublin, 1979), iii 903.

Editions

1. W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey & Robert Atkinson (prepared for press), Ancient laws of Ireland, 6 vols. (Dublin, 1865–1901), ii (1869)342–420 [text based on the uncorrected transcripts of John O'Donovan and Eugene O'Curry].
2. Rudolf Thurneysen (ed. & trans.), 'Cáin lánamna', in: D. A. Binchy & Myles Dillon (eds.), Studies in early Irish law (Dublin, 1936), 1–80; repr. in Rudolf Thurneysen, Gesammelte Schriften, i–iii, ed. Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel & Rolf Ködderitzsch (Tübingen, 1991), iii 287–366. Edition and translation with copious commentary.
3. D. A. Binchy, Corpus iuris hibernici (Dublin, 1979), ii 502–19; iii 903, v 1804–12 [diplomatic edition].

Translations

1. W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey & Robert Atkinson (prepared for press), Ancient laws of Ireland, 6 vols. (Dublin, 1865–1901), ii (1869)343–421 [translation on the uncorrected drafts of John O'Donovan and Eugene O'Curry].
2. Rudolf Thurneysen (ed. & trans.), 'Cáin lánamna', in D. A. Binchy & Myles Dillon (eds.), Studies in early Irish law (Dublin, 1936), 1–80; repr. in Rudolf Thurneysen, Gesammelte Schriften, i–iii, ed. Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel & Rolf Ködderitzsch (Tübingen, 1991), iii 287–366.
3. Donnchadh Ó Corráin, 'Cáin lánamna (The law of the couple)', in Donnchadh Ó Corráin (ed.), 'Early medieval law, c. 700–1200', in: Angela Bourke, Siobhán Kilfeather, Maria Luddy, Margaret Mac Curtain, Geraldine Meaney, Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, Mary O'Dowd and Clair Wills (eds.), The Field Day anthology of Irish writing, iv (Cork, 2002), 6–44: 22–26.

Bibliography

1. H. M. d'Arbois de Jubainville, 'L'achat de la femme dans la loi irlandaise', Revue Celtique, 3 (1876–8), 361–4.
2. H. M. d'Arbois de Jubainville, 'La famille celtique', Revue Celtique, 25 (1904), 1–16, 181–207 H. M. d'Arbois de Jubainville, La famille celtique: étude de droit comparé (Paris, 1905).
3. Rudolf Thurneysen, 'Heirat', in D. A. Binchy & Myles Dillon (eds.) Studies in early Irish law (Dublin, 1936), 109–208; repr. in Rudolf Thurneysen, Gesammelte Schriften, iii 367–86.
4. Nancy Power, 'Classes of women described in the Senchas Már', in D. A. Binchy & Myles Dillon (eds.), Studies in early Irish law (Dublin, 1936), 81–108.
5. Myles Dillon, 'The relationship of mother and son, of father and daughter, and the law of inheritance with regard to women', in D. A. Binchy & Myles Dillon (eds.), Studies in early Irish law (Dublin, 1936), 129–79.
6. D. A. Binchy, 'Family membership of women', in D. A. Binchy & Myles Dillon (eds.), Studies in early Irish law (Dublin, 1936), 180–86.
7. Kathleen Mulchrone, 'The rights and duties of women in regard to the education of their children', in D. A. Binchy & Myles Dillon (eds.), Studies in early Irish law (Dublin, 1936), 187–205.
8. D. A. Binchy, 'The legal capacity of women in regard to contracts', in D. A. Binchy & Myles Dillon (eds.), Studies in early Irish law (Dublin, 1936), 207–34.
9. August Knoch, 'Die Ehescheidung im alten irischen Recht', in D. A. Binchy & Myles Dillon (eds.), Studies in early Irish law (Dublin, 1936), 235–68.
10. D. A. Binchy, 'Sick maintenance in Irish law', Ériu, 12 (1938), 78–134.
11. M. A. O'Brien, 'Miscelleanea hibernica' Études Celtiques, 3 (1938), 363–73: 370–1 [sleith].
12. Josef Weisweiler, 'Die Stellung der Frau bei den Kelten und das Problem des keltischen "Mutterrechtes"', Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 21 (1939), 205–80.
13. D. A. Binchy, 'Fionna–chruth', Éigse, 15 (1973–4), 319–22.
14. Heinrich Wagner, 'Studies in the origins of early Celtic tradition', Ériu 26 (1975) 1–58: 23–4 [4. An early Mesopotaminan parallel to 'cétmuinter' for muin araile 'a wife upon the neck of another' in Irish law; 5. On O.Ir. urnaidm 'betrothal'].
15. Donnchadh Ó Corráin, 'Women in early Irish society', in Margaret MacCurtain & Donnchadh Ó Corráin (eds.), Women in Irish society: the historical dimension (Dublin & Westport CN, 1978), 1–13.
16. R. C. McAll, 'The normal paradigm of a woman's life in Irish and Welsh texts', in Dafydd Jenkins & Morfydd Owen (eds.), The Welsh law of women: studies presented to D. A. Binchy (Cardiff, 1980), 7–22.
17. Donnchadh Ó Corráin, 'Irish law and canon law', in P. Ní Chatháin & Michael Richter (eds.), Irland und Europa: die Kirche im Frühmittelalter (Stuttgart, 1984), 157–66.
18. Donnchadh Ó Corráin, 'Marriage in early Ireland', in Art Cosgrove (ed.), Marriage in Ireland (Dublin, 1985), 5–24.
19. Lisi Oliver, 'Forced and unforced rape in early Irish law', Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 13 (1993), 93–106.
20. Dorothy D. Swartz, 'The legal status of women in early and medieval Ireland and Wales in comparison with western European and Mediterranean societies: environmental and social correlations', Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 13 (1993),107–18.
21. Donnchadh Ó Corráin, 'Women and the law in early Ireland', in Mary O'Dowd & Sabine Wichert (eds.), Chattel, servant or citizen: women's status in church, state and society, Historical Studies, 19 (Belfast, 1995), 45–57.
22. Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, 'The Lex innocentium: Adomnán's law for women, clerics and youths, 697 A.D.', in Mary O'Dowd & Sabine Wichert (eds.), Chattel, servant or citizen: women's status in church, state and society, Historical Studies, 19 (Belfast, 1995), 58–69.
23. Bart Jaski, 'Marriage laws in Ireland and the continent in the early middle ages', in Christine Meek & Katharine Simms (eds.), 'Fragility of her sex': medieval Irishwomen in their European context (Dublin, 1996), 16–42.
24. Bart Jaski, 'Vrowen in vroeg–middeleeuws Ierland', in R. H. F. Hofman, B. Smelik & K. Jongeling (eds.), Kelten van Spanje tot Ierland (Utrecht, 1996), 43–72.
25. Donnchadh Ó Corráin (ed.), 'Early medieval law, c. 700–1200', in Angela Bourke, Siobhán Kilfeather, Maria Luddy, Margaret Mac Curtain, Geraldine Meaney, Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, Mary O'Dowd and Clair Wills (eds.), The Field Day anthology of Irish writing, iv (Cork, 2002), 6–44: 22–26.

The edition used in the digital edition

‘Cáin lánamna’ (1936). In: D. A. Binchy, Myles Dillon, Rudolf Thurneysen (eds.), Studies in early Irish law.‍ Ed. by Rudolf Thurneysen. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, pp. 1–80.

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Keywords: law; prose; medieval; marriage

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1. 2010-04-27: Conversion script run; header updated; new wordcount made; file parsed. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
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