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Edited by Kuno Meyer
Whole text
- p.215
- Mōr n-drūiss, mōr m-bāis, mōr
m-baile,
mōr coll cēille, mōr mire,
ūair is airchenn dul d'ēccaib,
beith fo ētoil maicc Muire.
Ein altirischer Spruch (Additional MS. 30,512, fo. 32b.)
Vgl. und verbessere Thesaurus Paleohibernicus S. 296. Der Spruch 'Teicht do Róim' fehlt hier, scheint also nicht zum folgenden zu gehören.
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Title statement
Title (uniform): Ein altirischer Spruch
Title (firstline): Mór n-drúiss, mór m-báis, mór m-baile
Title (extended): [Additional MS 30 512, fo 32b]
Editor: Kuno Meyer
Responsibility statement
Electronic edition compiled by: Benjamin Hazard and Beatrix Färber
Funded by: University College, Cork and The Higher Education Authority via the LDT Project
Edition statement
2. Second draft.
Extent: 660 words
Publication statement
Publisher: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a Department of History Project of University College, Cork
Address: College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt
Date: 2005
Date: 2011
Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
CELT document ID: G400112
Availability: Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.
Source description
Manuscript Source
- London, British Library, Additional MS. 30,512, fol. 34b2. (Vellum; 15th-16th century). Description from the website of the British Library: "Leabhar Ui Maolconaire: a collection of legends, lives of saints compiled by the family of O'Mulconroy. Written in various hands. A list of contents by Eugene O'Curry is prefixed. Inserted, on ff. 73b, 74, are notes concerning the family of Mac Geogaghan, circ. 1631. Vellum; ff. 123. 15th cent. From the libraries of W. Monck Mason and Sir W. Tite. Octavo." For full details see Robin Flower and Standish Hayes O'Grady (eds.), Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Library [formerly the British Museum]; 3 vols. (London 1926; repr. Dublin 1992, revised by Myles Dillon) vol. 2, 470–505.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Ein altirischer Spruch [Additional MS 30512, fo 32b]’ (1907). In: Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie 3, part 3. Ed. by Kuno Meyer, p. 215.
You can add this reference to your bibliographic database by copying or downloading the following:
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editor = {Kuno Meyer},
title = {Ein altirischer Spruch [Additional MS 30512, fo 32b]},
journal = {Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie},
number = {3, part 3},
address = {Halle/Saale},
publisher = {Max Niemeyer},
date = {1907},
pages = {215}
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Encoding description
Project description: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
Editorial declarations
Correction: Text has been checked and proof-read twice.
Normalization: The electronic text represents the edited text. In Meyer's edition, the acute accent and macron are used to mark long vowels. Both are retained here. Names are capitalized in line with CELT practice.
Quotation: There are no quotations.
Hyphenation: Hyphenation was introduced. When a hyphenated word (hard or soft) crosses a page-break, this break is marked after completion of the hyphenated word.
Segmentation: div0=the poem; page-breaks are marked pb n="".
Interpretation: Names are not tagged, nor are terms for cultural and social roles.
Profile description
Creation: By an unknown Irish author. 600–900
Language usage
- The text is in Old Irish. (ga)
- Some words are in German. (de)
Keywords: religious; poetry; medieval
Revision description
(Most recent first)
- 2011-02-03: Header updated; new wordcount made. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-09-01: File validated. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-07-30: Keywords added. (ed. Ruth Murphy)
- 2008-07-21: Value of div0 "type" attribute modified, 'creation' tags inserted, content of 'langUsage' revised; minor modifications made to header. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2005-08-25: Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion (ed. Julianne Nyhan)
- 2005-08-04T16:04:51+0100: Converted to XML (ed. Peter Flynn)
- 2005-06-10: Whole file including header details re-proofed, new wordcount, new HTML file created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2005-05-10: File proofed (1); structural and content markup applied; header constructed; bibliographic details compiled; file parsed; HTML file created. (ed. Benjamin Hazard)
- 2005-05-10: Text scanned in. (data capture Benjamin Hazard)