Cormac mac Airt – Emerald Archives

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Cormac mac Airt is linked in the supplied sources to the wisdom text Teocosca Cormaic, the tale Scéla Éogain agus Cormaic, and Echtra Cormaic. The sources also cite Tomás Ó Cathasaigh’s 1977 book The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt, published by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and note manuscript sources and printed editions for these texts.

Royal Portrait

The tradition includes the Irish text Scéla Éogain agus Cormaic, and related material on Cormac mac Airt is preserved in editions such as Tecosca Cormaic (The instructions of King Cormac Mac Airt) and Vernam Hull’s edition of Echtra Cormaic maic Airt. Irish History Online lists Tomás Ó Cathasaigh’s 1977 book The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt as a monograph published by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

Irish History Online identifies The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh as a monograph published in 1977 by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, in Dublin, and notes that it includes Irish text with an English translation. The CELT material for Tecosca Cormaic lists manuscript sources including the Book of Leinster, the Book of Ballymote, the Book of Lecan, and the Psalter of Tara, while the UCC and Cambridge records for Echtra Cormaic note modern editions and translations of that text.

Wisdom Texts

The CELT edition for The instructions of King Cormac Mac Airt: Tecosca Cormaic lists manuscript sources in the Book of Leinster, the Book of Ballymote, the Book of Lecan, a fragment of the Book of Lecan, and other manuscripts.

The CELT header for Tecosca Cormaic lists manuscript sources including the Book of Leinster, the Book of Ballymote, the Book of Lecan, a fragment of the Book of Lecan, a transcript by John O’Donovan, and witnesses in the Royal Irish Academy, Trinity College Dublin, and the National Library of Scotland. It also records translations and literature by John O’Donovan, Rudolf Thurneysen, and Maxim Fomin, and cites Kuno Meyer’s edition used in the digital edition.

Heroic Tradition

Whitley Stokes edited and translated Cormac’s Adventure in the Land of Promise in Irische Texte, Ser. III.1 (1891), and Vernam Hull edited and translated Echtra Cormaic maic Airt, “The Adventure of Cormac mac Airt,” in PMLA 64 (1949). The source notice describes both as Medieval Irish text and English translation, and Hull’s edition is noted as an edition and translation of the version in the Book of Fermoy.

The retrieved source material identifies related texts and editions: Teocosca Cormaic, Scéla Éogain agus Cormaic, and Echtra Cormaic, along with a scholarly book, The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt. The record for that book notes publication in 1977 by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and says it includes Irish text with English translation.

Manuscript Transmission

Irish History Online lists Tomás Ó Cathasaigh’s The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt, published in Dublin in 1977 by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. The record classifies it under Scéla Éogain agus Cormaic, myth, tradition, textual criticism, and manuscript sources, and notes that it includes printed primary sources and Irish text with English translation. Related sources include Tecosca Cormaic and Echtra Cormaic.

The CELT header for Tecosca Cormaic lists manuscript sources including the Book of Leinster, Book of Ballymote, Book of Lecan, a fragment of the Book of Lecan, RIA MS 23 N 10, RIA 23 N 27, its transcript RIA 23 O 20, the Psalter of Tara, TCD H. 1. 9, TCD H. 4. 8, and Edinburgh NLS Adv. MS 72.1.7. It also names the edition used in the digital text as Kuno Meyer’s The instructions of King Cormac Mac Airt: Tecosca Cormaic and states that the electronic text represents the edited text.

Later Reading

Cormac mac Airt is associated in the retrieved sources with Tecosca Cormaic, whose CELT header lists manuscript sources including the Book of Leinster, Book of Ballymote, Book of Lecan, the Psalter of Tara, and other witnesses, and names Kuno Meyer’s 1909 edition. Irish History Online also lists Tomás Ó Cathasaigh’s 1977 The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt, with subject classification including Scéla Éogain agus Cormaic. The sources likewise identify Echtra Cormaic maic Airt as “The Adventure of Cormac mac Airt,” with editions and translations by Whitley Stokes and Vernam Hull.