A digital edition of the earliest Irish grammar
This web service, the main outcome of Research Council of Norway project no. 324 602, presents a collection of new monoptic editions of hitherto unedited copies of the medieval Irish grammatical treatise Auraicept na nÉces ('The Scholars' Primer'). The project is funded by a NOK 3,8 million grant (FRIPRO) from the Research Council of Norway (2021–2024).
Corpus Grammaticorum Hibernicorum
Corpus Grammaticorum Hibernicorum offers new diplomatic editions of previously unedited manuscript copies of Auraicept na nÉces. The web service has been made with a view towards future expansion of the catalogue with related texts on the Irish language and its origin, such as the Middle Irish commentary In Lebor Ollaman. The name of the catalogue reflects this goal (see 'About').
Catalogue
Contents
The catalogue currently contains editions of Auraicept na nÉces from several medieval recensions of the text. These have been marked up in TEI XML and can be read online or downloaded to your computer for custom processing.
Prospectives
Editions of the copies of the longer recension are in progress.
About
The name of the catalogue
The name of the catalogue was inspired by the late Anders Ahlqvist, who edited a seminal edition of the core text of Auraicept na nÉces and contributed significantly to the study of early Irish linguistics.
It seems likely, and to me at any rate, desirable that it [sc. a critical edition of Auraicept na nÉces] will be preceded by the publication, either in facsimile or diplomatically, of all known Irish grammatical and similar materials, so as to make available to scholars a Corpus Grammaticorum Hibernicorum, that would render to the historian of Irish linguistics the same services that the Corpus Iuris Hibernici has begun, since its publication in 1978, to give to students of early Irish Law.