Texts
Scúap chrábaid‘The besom of devotion’verse beg. Ateoch fritt, a Īssu nōebh
- Old Irish
- verse
- Irish religious texts, Litany
Initial words (verse)
- Ateoch fritt, a Īssu nōebh
(I appeal to you, holy Jesus)
Author
Colcu úa DuinechdaColcu úa Duinechda – scholar (scriba) and poet associated with Clonmacnoise, of which he may well have been bishop. The litany Scúap chrábaid has been attributed to him.
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Kuno Meyer: “I see no reason to doubt the accuracy of tradition in assigning the following noble prayer [...] to Colcu ua Duinechda, a celebrated scholar and divine, and lector at the monastic school of Clonmacnois, who died in A.D. 794”.n. 1 Kuno Meyer, ‘Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts: VI. Colcu ua Duinechda's Scúap Chrábaid, or Besom of Devotion’, Otia Merseiana 2 (1900–1901): 92.
Ascribed to
Manuscripts
Meyer lists the following manuscript copies:
- L =
- Copies in the hand of Michael O'Clery:
- B1 = Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5100-5104 (507) [1630]pp. 9–12 cols 3 ffEntitled ‘Aurnaighthi Cholgan húi Duinecda .i. fer léighinn Cluana maic Nóis insin .i. Scuáp Crábaidh’
- B2 = Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 4190-4200 (3409) [s. xvii1]ff. 212b–215aNo title. Here ascribed to the saint Airerán ind Eccna.
- B3 =
- B1 =
- LB = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 (Hodges & Smith 224, 1230) = Leabhar Breac [s. xvin]p. 74Incomplete. Begins at § 27 of Meyer's edition.
- R = Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 [s. xv – s. xviin]f. 41bIncomplete. Begins at § 34 of Meyer's edition.
Language
- Old Irish
- “The language is unmistakeably Old-Irish, and may well be that of the latter half of the eighth century” (Meyer).n. 2 Kuno Meyer, ‘Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts: VI. Colcu ua Duinechda's Scúap Chrábaid, or Besom of Devotion’, Otia Merseiana 2 (1900–1901): 92.
Form
verse (primary)
Sources
Notes
Kuno Meyer, ‘Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts: VI. Colcu ua Duinechda's Scúap Chrábaid, or Besom of Devotion’, Otia Merseiana 2 (1900–1901): 92.
Kuno Meyer, ‘Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts: VI. Colcu ua Duinechda's Scúap Chrábaid, or Besom of Devotion’, Otia Merseiana 2 (1900–1901): 92.
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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts: VI. Colcu ua Duinechda's Scúap Chrábaid, or Besom of Devotion”, Otia Merseiana 2 (1900–1901): 92–105.
[ed.] [tr.] Plummer, Charles, Irish litanies: text and translation, Henry Bradshaw Society 62, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1925.
CELT – edition: <link>
30–45 The first part (Litany of Jesus I) was taken from YBL, the second part (Litany of Jesus II) from Brussels 2324-2340.
[tr.] O'Curry, Eugene [tr.], “The MSS. remains of professor O'Curry in the Catholic University: i. Prayer of St. Colga; ii. Prayer of St. Aireran the Wise, ob. 664; iii. The rule of St. Carthach”, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record 1 (1865): 4–12, 63–64, 112–118.
Secondary sources (select)
O'Sullivan, Tomás, “Texts and transmissions of the Scúap Chrábaid: an Old-Irish litany in its manuscript context”, Studia Celtica Fennica 7 (2010): 26–47.
Sfks.org: <link>
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