New Brehon Law Corpus Book

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

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     From: "Vincent Salafia" uatuathal at yahoo.com
     Date: Tue May 9, 2006 3:35am(PDT)
Subject: A companion to the Corpus Iuris Hibernici  by Liam Breatnach

A companion to the Corpus Iuris Hibernici
by Liam Breatnach.

2005. xvi + 499 pp. (vol. V)

€30

ISBN 1 85500 184 5

A guide to the primary sources of mediaeval Irish law.

Overview
This book aims to guide the reader through the vast and multifarious
corpus of mediaeval Irish law texts.

A general introduction is provided in Chapter One, which includes a
discussion of the manuscripts in which the legal texts are preserved.
Chapter Two gives a detailed account of the contents of the Corpus
Iuris Hibernici, which made available for the first time in print the
greater part of the corpus of texts from the Old, Middle and Early
Modern Irish periods. Chapter Three looks at the various ways in which
the legal texts are transmitted, abbreviated, rewritten, reorganised,
and supplied with glosses and commentary, and covers texts of all
periods. Chapter Four is devoted to O'Davoren's Glossary, an important
source of information for the contents of a number of imperfectly
preserved Old Irish texts. Chapter Five gives accounts of those Old
Irish texts for which we have titles; much of it is taken up with
attempting to determine what passages if any can be assigned to the all
too many texts for which we have no complete copy. Chapter Six is
concerned with other extracts from Old Irish texts, especially four
related digests. The earliest glosses and commentaries on law-texts
belong to the Old Irish period; these, together with those of the later
period, are discussed in Chapter Seven. Chapter Eight looks at some
questions of dating and style.

In addition there are seven appendices, the first consisting of a
concordance of the O'Curry and O'Donovan law transcripts with the
Corpus Iuris Hibernici, and the rest containing manuscripts of a number
of texts and fragments not previously published. The book concludes
with a bibliography.

http://www.celt.dias.ie/publications/cat/f/f4-5.html

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Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D.
Instructional Designer/Instructor in Linguistics
Penn State University
ejp10 at psu.edu

http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/

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