Cóir anmann

Cóir anmann
‘The fitness of names’

Manuscripts

• Longer recension:

• • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 19 (pp. 565-628) (H 3. 18, 1337) [s. xvi (?)] pp. 565a–596a
  • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1393 (H 5. 21, 1393) [s. xvii] pp. 19–48
  • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 13 (Reeves 832, 1068) [s. xvii] pp. 257–292 
    ^{n. 1} Sharon Arbuthnot, ‘The manuscript tradition of Cóir anmann’, Studia Celtica 35 (2001): 292.
• Shorter recension:
  • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote [1384 x 1406] pp. 249a–255a
  • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan [s. xvⁱⁿ] ff. 173r–176r
  • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Book of Uí Maine [1394] ff. 184v–188r
  • Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.1 (1) (Gaelic I (1)) = 1467 manuscript [c. 1467] ff. 13r–14v
  • Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.7 (Gaelic VII) ff. 1r–4r

• • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 (H 3. 17, 1336) [s. xvi] col. 752 Fragment.
    ^{n. 2} Sharon Arbuthnot, ‘The manuscript tradition of Cóir anmann’, Studia Celtica 35 (2001): 286.

Language

Late Middle Irish (Arbuthnot)

Classification

Irish texts on language and literature Irish legendary history Mythological Cycle

• Sources

Notes

^1.

Sharon Arbuthnot, ‘The manuscript tradition of Cóir anmann’, Studia Celtica 35 (2001): 292.

^2.

Sharon Arbuthnot, ‘The manuscript tradition of Cóir anmann’, Studia Celtica 35 (2001): 286.

Primary sources

Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in the entry for the relevant manuscript.

[ed.] [tr.] Arbuthnot, Sharon [ed. and tr.], Cóir anmann: a late Middle Irish treatise on personal names, 2 vols, Irish Texts Society 59, 60, London: Irish Texts Society, 2005–2007.

Arbuthnot, Sharon, Cóir anmann: a late Middle Irish treatise on personal names, vol. 1: Part 1, Irish Texts Society 59, London: Irish Texts Society, 2005.

Arbuthnot, Sharon, Cóir anmann: a late Middle Irish treatise on personal names, vol. 2: Part 2, Irish Texts Society 60, London: Irish Texts Society, 2007.

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “Cóir anmann (Fitness of names)”, in: Windisch, Ernst, and Whitley Stokes (eds.), Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 3:2, Leipzig, 1897. 285–444, 557. CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Secondary sources

Griffin-Kremer, Cozette, “Wooings and works: an episode on yoking oxen in the Tochmarc Étaine and the Cóir anmann”, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 4 (2010): 54–85.

Arbuthnot, Sharon, “Medieval Irish compilation: conservation and creativity”, in: Claassens, Geert H. M., and Werner Verbeke (eds), Medieval manuscripts in transition: tradition and creative recycling, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 36, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2006. 1–12.

Arbuthnot, Sharon J., “On the name Oscar and two little-known episodes involving the fían”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 51 (Summer, 2006): 67–81.

Arbuthnot, Sharon, “The manuscript tradition of Cóir anmann”, Studia Celtica 35 (2001): 285–298.

Arbuthnot, Sharon J., “Fíthal in Cóir anmann”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 20 (2000): 197–200.

Thurneysen, Rudolf, Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert, Halle: Niemeyer, 1921. Internet Archive: <link>

Dobbs, Margaret E., Side-lights on the Táin age and other studies, Dundalk: Tempest, 1917. Internet Archive: <link>

Queried results

if available

Hemprich, Gisbert, Rí Érenn – ‘König von Irland’ – Fiktion und Wirklichkeit, 2 vols, Bonner Beiträge zur Keltologie 2, Berlin: curach bhán, 2015. 162   [4.19] “Cóir anmann ‘Die korrekte Erklärung von Namen’” with ‘Exkurs: Cóir anmann, Míniugud und Lebar Glinne Dá Locha’.

Griffin-Kremer, Cozette, “Wooings and works: an episode on yoking oxen in the Tochmarc Étaine and the Cóir anmann”, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 4 (2010): 54–85.

Arbuthnot, Sharon [ed. and tr.], Cóir anmann: a late Middle Irish treatise on personal names, 2 vols, Irish Texts Society 59, 60, London: Irish Texts Society, 2005–2007.

Arbuthnot, Sharon, Cóir anmann: a late Middle Irish treatise on personal names, vol. 2: Part 2, Irish Texts Society 60, London: Irish Texts Society, 2007.

Arbuthnot, Sharon J., “On the name Oscar and two little-known episodes involving the fían”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 51 (Summer, 2006): 67–81.

Arbuthnot, Sharon, “Medieval Irish compilation: conservation and creativity”, in: Claassens, Geert H. M., and Werner Verbeke (eds), Medieval manuscripts in transition: tradition and creative recycling, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 36, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2006. 1–12.

Arbuthnot, Sharon, Cóir anmann: a late Middle Irish treatise on personal names, vol. 1: Part 1, Irish Texts Society 59, London: Irish Texts Society, 2005.

Arbuthnot, Sharon, “The manuscript tradition of Cóir anmann”, Studia Celtica 35 (2001): 285–298.

Arbuthnot, Sharon J., “Fíthal in Cóir anmann”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 20 (2000): 197–200.

Thurneysen, Rudolf, Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert, Halle: Niemeyer, 1921. Internet Archive: <link> 48   [1.16] “Cōir Anmann”

Dobbs, Margaret E., Side-lights on the Táin age and other studies, Dundalk: Tempest, 1917. Internet Archive: <link> 57   [6] “Cóir anmann”

Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “Cóir anmann (Fitness of names)”, in: Windisch, Ernst, and Whitley Stokes (eds.), Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 3:2, Leipzig, 1897. 285–444, 557. CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

web page identifiers

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