Texts
Sanas Cormaic‘Cormac's glossary’
- Old Irish, Middle Irish
- prose
- Irish glossaries, Irish texts on language and literature
Author
Ascribed to: Cormac mac CuilennáinCormac mac Cuilennáin (d. 908) – bishop and king of Munster
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Manuscripts
- Longer version:
- B: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 2, cols 3-122 [s. xvi]pp. 255a–283a (facsimile) cols 3–87
- C: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1317 (H 2. 15b) [s. xvii]pp. 13–39 (scribe: Fland) and pp. 77–102 (scribe: Dubhaltach Mac Firbhisigh)
- Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 12 [s. xvi (?)]pp. 1–40
- B:
- Shorter version:
- A: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 (Hodges & Smith 224, 1230) = Leabhar Breac [s. xvin]pp. 263–272.
- F: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]p. 179a–179bFragment ~ YBL, §§ 1224-34 and 1268-75
- G: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610 ff. 1–58 and ff. 73–122 = Leabhar na Rátha [1453–1454]ff. 79r–84r~ YBL, §§ 756-1224.
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]pp. 177ra–184raBeginning only. ~ YBL, §§ 1-1224.
- A:
- Extracts:
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (Betham 145, 967) = Book of Ballycummin [s. xvi]pp. 74 ffEntry for Prull
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- The sigla in italics represent the versions as listed by Stokes.
Language
- Old Irish Middle Irish
- Secondary language(s): Latin Greek Hebrew
Form
prose (primary)
verse (secondary)
Textual relationships
Sources
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.
[dig. ed.] Russell, Paul, Sharon Arbuthnot, and Pádraic Moran, Early Irish glossaries database, Online: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. URL: <http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries>.
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Sanas Cormaic. An Old-Irish glossary compiled by Cormac úa Cuilennáin, king-bishop of Cashel in the tenth century”, in: Bergin, Osborn, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. O'Keeffe (eds.), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 4, Halle and Dublin, 1912. 1–128 (text), i–xix (introduction).
Secondary sources (select)
Russell, Paul, “Poets, power and possessions in medieval Ireland: some stories from Sanas Cormaic”, in: Eska, Joseph F. [ed.], Law, literature and society, CSANA Yearbook 7, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 9–45.
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