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- p.58
- A Choimdiu baíd,
a Rí na ríg,
a Athair inmain,
airchis dím. - Ná rucam inn-onn
nach pecad linn,
ná fagbam tall
péin ar ar cinn. - Treblait nor-glana
nos-tabair dún,
a Meic Dé bí,
a Rí na rún. - Treblait chorrach, —
is maith in maín, —
nos-coimsig dún,
a Choimdiu baíd. - Ní ragba ar n-eill
deman dub doim!
I maig, i taig,
non-gaib fot choim.
A Choimdiu baíd
Beloved Lord, pity me
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Title statement
Title (uniform): A Choimdiu baíd
Title (translation, English Translation): Beloved Lord, Pity Me
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Electronic edition compiled by: Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Funded by: University College, Cork and Professor Marianne McDonald via the CURIA Project.
Edition statement
2. Second draft, revised and corrected.
Extent: 732 words
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Publisher: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
Address: College Road, Cork, Ireland— http://www.ucc.ie/celt
Date: 1996
Date: 2010
Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
CELT document ID: G400025
Availability: The hard copy on which the present electronic edition is based is copyright by Oxford University Press, and is here used by kind permission of the publishers.
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Manuscript sources
- Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, 5100, p. 56. Author: Máel Isu Úa Brolchán, c. 1086.
Editions
- Kuno Meyer, Neue Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften. Zwei Gebete des Máel-Isu húa Brolcháin, Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 3 (1906) 231.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Beloved Lord, Pity Me’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 58.
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Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.1075–1100 (1086?)
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- The text is in Middle Irish. (ga)
- Subtitle is in English. (en)
Keywords: religious; poetry; medieval
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- 2010-11-14: File updated; new wordcount made; conversion script run. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-09-03: File validated. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-07-30: Keywords added. (ed. Ruth Murphy)
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- 1997-09-05: Header created; text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
- 1996-02-05: Creation and insertion of TEI Header for the anthology; revision of structural mark-up. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)
- 1996-02-05: Revised text parsed and mark-up verified using SGMLS. (ed. Mavis Cournane)
- 1995-08: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Tiarnán Ó Corráin)
- 1995-02: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Mavis Cournane)
- 1994: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Aideen O'Leary)
- 1994: Proofing and correction of edition. (ed. Patricia Kelly)
- 1993: Data capture completed. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)