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
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–179b
  
  Fragment ~ 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–184ra
  
  Beginning only. ~ YBL, §§ 1-1224.
Extracts:
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (Betham 145, 967) = Book of Ballycummin [s. xvi]
  pp. 74 ff
  
  Entry for Prull
- London, British Library, MS Harleian 5280 [s. xviⁱⁿ]
  f. 75r–75v
  
  Entries for Mug Éme and Prull
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

Related:
Irish glossary from TCD 1337, pp. 623-628
Loman

Associated items

Cen cholt for crib cernine, Dinnshenchas of Cnocc Rafann, Finn and the jester Lomnae, Sanas Cormaic/Gaire, Sanas Cormaic/Lethech, Sanas Cormaic/Mug Éme, Sanas Cormaic/Prull, Sanas Cormaic/Rincne, Uga Corbmaic meic Cuilendáin

Classification

Irish glossaries Irish texts on language and literature

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.] Stokes, Whitley [ed.], Three Irish glossaries: Cormac’s Glossary, O’Davoren’s Glossary and a glossary to the Calendar of Oengus the Culdee, London: Williams and Norgate, 1862.

TLH – ‘Cormac’s Glossary’ (pp. 1-44): <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link>

[ed.] Stokes, Whitley [ed.], and John O'Donovan [tr.], Sanas Chormaic: Cormac’s Glossary, Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, Calcutta: O.T. Cutter, 1868.

Internet Archive: <link> HathiTrust: <link>, <link> Google Books: <link>

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “On the Bodleian fragment of Cormac’s Glossary”, Transactions of the Philological Society 22 (1891–4, 1894): 149–206.

Internet Archive: <link>, <link>, <link>

[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).

Internet Archive – vols 1-5: <link> Internet Archive – vols 3-5: <link>

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.

Russell, Paul, “The sounds of a silence: the growth of Cormac's Glossary”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 15 (1988): 1–30.

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