On Prayer for the Dead

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Sources:

Printed source of this electronic edition

‘A Miscellany of Irish Verse’, ed. James Carney, Éigse 1 (1939) 239-248

Manuscript source of printed text

University College Dublin Ms A9 (Franciscan collection), p. 44a

Other published editions of this text

‘On the Ghost of Mac Maguire’, in ‘Two Religious Pieces’, ed. Paul Grosjean S.J., Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 18 (1930), p. 300

These stanzas also occur in Laud 615 as part of a longer poem attributed to Columcille, beginning Fersaighecht an tempuill tall and printed by Kuno Meyer in Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 9 (1913), p. 172. This version lacks the prose introduction found in A9.

Language:

Early Irish.
Three words of Latin occur in the text.

Published by:

Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae,
University College Dublin
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Project funder: Professor Marianne McDonald (University of California, San Diego) via the Ireland Funds.

Date: Final mark-up completed, 2007-08-24

Text ID: jc.eig.1.002

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Due to current browser limitations, certain characters in printed editions may not always be similarly displayed in the electronic version. In such cases, the following representations have been chosen for display purposes:

characters with punctum delens or other marks indicating lenition (this applies to f, s, m and n) are displayed with following h and underlining: thus fh, sh, mh and nh
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The MS source of this edition is the same as that of P. Grosjean’s On the Ghost of Mac Maguire. Carney’s is the more recent and better edition, which also incorporates variant readings from Kuno Meyer’s edition of the text in Laud 615. For the mark-up of Carney’s emendations, see sub headings Correction and Tags declaration below. In the HTML format, these emendations are encoded as hyperlinks. Clicking the links will display the MS readings/variants in a pop-up window.

A diplomatic edition of the text of A9 by Niall Brady is also offered for comparison with the editions of Grosjean and Carney.

To facilitate searching, macrons used to indicate long vowels in the printed edition have been omitted from the html display.

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Correction

In his printed edition, Carney has in some places emended the reading of the MS. These emendations are encoded in TLH by means of the <corr> tag with two attributes, namely the “sic” attribute, indicating the reading of the MS, and the “resp” attribute, indicating editorial responsibility.

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Hyphenation

Hyphenation as in the printed edition.

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List of witnesses:

A: University College Dublin Franciscan Ms. A9
L: Bodleian Library Oxford Ms. Laud 615

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