Auraicept na nÉces

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Title	Auraicept na nÉces ‘The scholars'/poets' primer’
Manuscripts	Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1432 (E 3. 3) [s. xv-xvi], ff. 3–16 Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Book of Uí Maine [1394], ff. 139–143 Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote [1384 x 1406] Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.1 (2) (Gaelic I (2)) = John Beaton’s Broad Book, ff. 19–29 Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan, ff. 151–161 London, British Library, MS Egerton 88 [c. 1564], ff. 63–76 Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1363 (H 4. 22) [various], pp. 167–198 Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 (H 2. 16) = Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv-xv], cols 504–549 Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1319 (H 2. 17) [various], pp. 195 ff
Language	Old Irish
Date	The core of the text has been dated to “a fairly early stage of the Old Irish period” (Ahlqvist).[1]
Description	A grammar, or primer, of Old Irish

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Editions and translations

Ahlqvist, Anders (ed. and tr.), The early Irish linguist: an edition of the canonical part of the Auraicept na nÉces, Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 73, Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1983.

Calder, George (ed. and tr.), Auraicept na n-Éces: The scholars’ primer, being the texts of the Ogham tract from the Book of Ballymote and the Yellow book of Lecan, and the text of the Trefhocul from the Book of Leinster, Edinburgh, 1917. CELT: text and introduction Internet Archive: [1]

Secondary sources

Hofman, Rijcklof, and Bernadette Smelik, “An unnoticed copy of the Auraicept na n-Éces in MS TCD H.2.17”, in: Smelik, Bernadette, Rijcklof Hofman, Camiel Hamans, and David Cram (eds.), A companion in linguistics: a Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Nijmegen: Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak, 2005. 63—65.