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Extent: 1060 words

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Manuscript sources

1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. B 512, folio 98vb (the text is edited from this single manuscript).
2. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 535, folio 275, facsimile foliation (alias 23 P 2, alias Book of Lecan, early 15th century, vellum. Kathleen Mulchrone, The Book of Lecan, Facsimiles in Collotype of Irish Manuscripts II (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission 1937); Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, pp 1551–1610).
3. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 536, page 25, facsimile pagination (alias 23 P 12 alias Book of Ballymote, 14th–15th century, vellum. R. Atkinson (ed), Book of Ballymote [facsimile] (Dublin 1887); Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, pp 1610–1655).
4. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 619, page 41 (alias D iii 2, 18th cent., paper. Scribe: Aodh Ó Dálaigh. Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, 1945–52).
5. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 803, page 181 (alias 3 A 17, 19th cent., paper. Scribe: Joseph O'Longan. A copy of MS item 2. Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, 2518–20).

Edition

1. Kuno Meyer, Die Verwandlungen des Tuan mac Cairill, Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 3 (1901) 31.
2. R. A. S. Macalister (ed), Lebar Gabála Erenn: the Book of the taking of Ireland, Irish Texts Society 35, iii 80.

Translation

• R. A. S. Macalister (ed), Lebar Gabála Erenn: the Book of the taking of Ireland, Irish Texts Society 35, iii 81.

Sources, comment on the text, and secondary literature

• Kuno Meyer and Alfred Nutt, The voyage of Bran son of Febal to the Land of the Living. (An old Irish saga now first edited, with translation, notes, and glossary, by Kuno Meyer ...), vol. 2 (London 1897) 76–82, 87, 93, 285–01.

The edition used in the digital edition

‘Tuan mac Cairill ro clos’ (1901). In: Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie‍ 3. Ed. by Kuno Meyer and Ludwig Christian Stern, p. 31.

You can add this reference to your bibliographic database by copying or downloading the following:

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  editor 	 = {Kuno Meyer},
  title 	 = {Die Verwandlungen des Tuan mac Cairill},
  title 	 = {Tuan mac Cairill ro clos},
  journal 	 = {Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie},
  editor 	 = {Kuno Meyer  and Ludwig Christian Stern},
  volume 	 = {3},
  date 	 = {1901},
  pages 	 = {31}
}
 G300003.bib

Encoding description

Project description: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

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All the editorial text with the corrections of the editor has been retained. Mistaken editorial interference with the text is marked, and the manuscript readings reported by the editor are recorded.

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Correction: Text has been thoroughly checked, proof-read and parsed using NSGMLS.

Normalization: The electronic text represents the edited text. Compound words have, however, been hyphenated after CELT practice.

Quotation: There are no quotations.

Hyphenation: CELT practice.

Segmentation: div0=the tale. Metrical lines and quatrains are marked and numbered.

Interpretation: Names of persons (given names), and places are tagged. Terms for cultural and social roles are tagged.

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The n attribute of each text in this corpus carries a unique identifying number for the whole text.

The title of the text is held as the first head element within each text.

div0 is reserved for the text (whether in one volume or many).

The numbered quatrains provide a canonical reference.

Profile description

Creation: By an unknown Irish monastic scholar. 1000–1200

Language usage

• The text is in Middle Irish. (ga)

Keywords: mythology; prose; medieval

Revision description

(Most recent first)

1. 2010-04-27: Conversion script run; header updated; new wordcount made; file parsed. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
2. 2008-10-03: Header updated; keywords added; file validated. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
3. 2005-08-25: Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion (ed. Julianne Nyhan)
4. 2005-08-04T15:46:55+0100: Converted to XML (ed. Peter Flynn)
5. 1997-09-15: Header modified; file parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
6. 1997-08-28: Header re-structured; text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
7. 1996-05-15: Text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Mavis Cournane)
8. 1996-05-14: Header constructed, structural and in-depth mark-up entered. Lineation checked and verified. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)
9. 1992: Text captured by scanning. (data capture Charles O'Hara)