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Cóir anmann‘The fitness of names’

• Late Middle Irish
• Irish legendary history, Mythological Cycle, Irish texts on language and literature

Manuscripts

Longer recension:

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 19, pp. 565–628 [s. xvi (?)]

  pp. 565a–596a
• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1393 (H 5. 21) [s. xvii]

  pp. 19–48
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 13 (Reeves 832, 1068) [s. xvii]

  pp. 257–292

   

  ^{(1)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 = 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) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]

  ff. 184v–188r
• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.1 (1) = 1467 manuscript [c. 1467]

  ff. 13r–14v
• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.7

  ff. 1r–4r
• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 6 (first part), cols 710*-831 [s. xvi]

  col. 752

   

  Fragment.^{(2)n. 2} Sharon Arbuthnot, ‘The manuscript tradition of Cóir anmann’, Studia Celtica 35 (2001): 286.

See also results from manuscript descriptions

Language

• Late Middle Irish

• Late Middle Irish (Arbuthnot)

Textual relationships

• Related:
• Do bunad imthechta Éoganachta
• Tochmarc Moméra

Associated items

Dinnshenchas of Laigin II, Scéla Ailello Aulumm ocus a fhiacla fidha

Classification

Irish legendary history Mythological Cycle Irish texts on language and literature

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 entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[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.  

Contents: Introduction (pp 1-75, in 7 chapters); Editorial method (76); Diplomatic texts [BB and NLI MS G 2] and translation (79ff); App. I. Concordances of entries (200ff); App. II. Genealogical tables (222ff); Bibliography (234ff); Index of personal names (242ff).

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 (select)

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.  

comments: Part 1 (chapters 1-23): Allgemeines; Part 2 (chapters 1-85): Die Ulter Sage

Internet Archive: <link>

Dobbs, Margaret E., Side-lights on the Táin age and other studies, Dundalk: Tempest, 1917.

Internet Archive: <link>

web page identifiers

page name: Cóir anmann
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