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Tract on the áes fíachach

  • Old Irish
  • Early Irish law texts
Short Old Irish legal tract offering a graded discussion of penalities for people who are in some way accountable for a crime, from its perpetrators to its accessories.
Title
Tract on the áes fíachach
This is the title of Smith's edition, following the title heading in TCD 1336, meaning a tract on those liable to penalties.
Manuscripts
A =
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 3, col. 431–col. 644 [s. xvi]
cols 551–552
rubric: ‘Don aos fiachach sisanaigh’
beg. ‘Fir elgnaisi og-cinad cen comarba cein’
with commentary
B =
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 17, pp. 503–541
pp. 507–508
beg. ‘Fir elgnaise ogh-chinaid cen chomairb i cein’
with commentary
M =
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 volume 2 (pp. 1-14) [s. xvi]
p. 8b
beg. ‘Fir elgnais og-cinaith cen comairb i cein’
without commentary. The text is regarded by Smith as "corrupt and defective".
Language
  • Old Irish

Classification

Early Irish law textsEarly Irish law texts
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Sources

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[ed.] Smith, R. M., “A tract on the áes fíachach”, in: J. Fraser, Paul Grosjean, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Irish texts, fasciculus IV, London, 1934. 13–16.
Celtic Digital Initiative: <link>
Critical edition
[ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  
comments: numbered pp. 1926–2343; diplomatic edition of legal material from:
  • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 (continued)
  • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1387
  • Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502
  • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1308
  • London, British Library, MS Additional 4783
  • London, British Library, MS Nero A 7
  • Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS NKS 261b
  • Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 3
  • Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 11
  • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C i 2
  • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16
  • Dublin, Trinity College, MS E 3. 3
2031.31–2032.34 Diplomatic edition from TCD 1336 (A)
[ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 3, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  
comments: numbered pp. 745–1138; diplomatic edition of legal material from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 (continued, pp. 745–1109); Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1317 (pp. 1111–1138)
1055.1ff Diplomatic edition from B
[ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 2, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  
comments: numbered pp. 339–744; diplomatic edition of legal material from: London, British Library, MS Harley 432; Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1316; Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337.
572.20–24 Diplomatic edition from TCD 1337 section 2 (M)
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Allerlei Rechtssprüche”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 12 (1918): 361–365.
Internet Archive: <link>
Reading from TCD 1337 section 2 (M).
Translation wanted
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
February 2013, last updated: January 2024
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