The Lebar Brecc Tractate on the Canonical Hours

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Printed source of this electronic edition

‘The Lebar Brecc Tractate on the Canonical Hours’, ed. R. I. Best, in Miscellany Presented to Kuno Meyer, O. J. Bergin & C. Marstrander eds. (Halle 1912) 142-66

Manuscript source of printed text

Royal Irish Academy Ms 23 P 16 (Leabhar Breac), cat. no. 1230, p. 247 a

Other manuscript sources

Royal Irish Academy Ms 23 N 10, cat. no. 967, pp 96-7 (this MS contains the verse only)

Language:

Middle Irish (cf. Best, p. 143: “On the whole I should assign the composition to the XIth or early XIIth century”).
Some passages of Latin occur.

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Project funder: Professor Marianne McDonald (University of California, San Diego) via the Ireland Funds.

Date: Final mark-up completed, 2008-07-07

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LB: Royal Irish Academy Ms. 23 P 16
N: Royal Irish Academy Ms. 23 N 10

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