A Prayer to Christ for Help

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Sources:

Printed source of this electronic edition

‘Four Religious Poems’, ed. Kuno Meyer, Ériu 6 (1912) 112-116

Manuscript source of printed text

Trinity College Dublin Ms H.1.11, cat. no. 1285, p. 155 a

Other manuscript sources

British Library Additional 30,512, f. 44 a

Language:

Early Irish. Meyer (Ériu 6, p. 114) describes this text as a “late Old-Irish or early Middle-Irish poem”.

Published by:

Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae,
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
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Project funder: Professor Marianne McDonald (University of California, San Diego) via the Ireland Funds.

Date: Final mark-up completed, 2007-10-18

Text ID: km.eriu.6.002

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This edition incorporates textual variations between the different MSS in which the text occurs. For the mark-up of these variations, see sub heading Tags declaration below. This edition also contains editorial emendations of MS readings. For the mark-up of these emendations, see sub heading Correction below. In the HTML format, these variations and emendations are encoded as hyperlinks. Clicking the links will display the variant readings in a pop-up window.

Encoding principles:

Correction

In his printed edition, Meyer 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. Editorial responsibility is indicated as follows: “p” indicates print editor and “e” the editor of the electronic edition. TLH has not made any alterations to the text of the printed edition.

Normalisation

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Quotation

No quotations occur.

Hyphenation

No end-of-line hyphenation occurs.

Tags declaration:

The <app> tag is used to encode the critical apparatus, and contains a lemma and at least one variant reading.
The <lem> tag is used within the <app> tag to encode the lemma, i.e. a word or phrase in the text variations of which occur in other MS versions.
The <rdg> tag is used within the <app> tag to encode the variant readings that occur. The “wit” attribute identifies the source of the readings.

List of witnesses:

H: Trinity College Dublin Ms. H.1.11
A: British Library Additional 30,512

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