The glossing of the Early Irish law tracts
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Liam Breatnach
Abstract
This paper looks at how the legal texts composed in the Old Irish period were read, interpreted and analysed, taking in turn glossing on texts in the vernacular in the Old Irish period, glossing in the later periods, with special attention given to etymological glosses, evidence for the glosses being read in conjunction with the main text rather than as a substitute for it, and finally how glossed copies were used in the compiling of legal digests or florilegia.
Abstract
This paper looks at how the legal texts composed in the Old Irish period were read, interpreted and analysed, taking in turn glossing on texts in the vernacular in the Old Irish period, glossing in the later periods, with special attention given to etymological glosses, evidence for the glosses being read in conjunction with the main text rather than as a substitute for it, and finally how glossed copies were used in the compiling of legal digests or florilegia.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgements vii
- Abbreviations ix
- List of plates xiii
- Notes on contributors xv
- Editors’ introduction 1
- Allegory, the áes dána and the liberal arts in Medieval Irish literature 11
- Cryptography and the alphabet in the “Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin” 35
- Caide Máthair Bréithre “What is the Mother of a Word” 65
- The expression of “sense, meaning, signification” in the Old Irish glosses, and particularly in the Milan and Saint Gall glosses 85
- The verbal paradigms in Auraicept na nÉces 101
- The glossing of the Early Irish law tracts 113
- Teaching between the lines 133
- The Welsh bardic grammars on Litterae 149
- Poetry by numbers 161
- Gramadeg Gwysanau 181
- Master list of references 201
- Index of manuscripts 219
- Index of subjects 221
- Index of terms by language 225
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgements vii
- Abbreviations ix
- List of plates xiii
- Notes on contributors xv
- Editors’ introduction 1
- Allegory, the áes dána and the liberal arts in Medieval Irish literature 11
- Cryptography and the alphabet in the “Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin” 35
- Caide Máthair Bréithre “What is the Mother of a Word” 65
- The expression of “sense, meaning, signification” in the Old Irish glosses, and particularly in the Milan and Saint Gall glosses 85
- The verbal paradigms in Auraicept na nÉces 101
- The glossing of the Early Irish law tracts 113
- Teaching between the lines 133
- The Welsh bardic grammars on Litterae 149
- Poetry by numbers 161
- Gramadeg Gwysanau 181
- Master list of references 201
- Index of manuscripts 219
- Index of subjects 221
- Index of terms by language 225
