Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G303010

Feis Tighe Chonáin

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Maud Joynt

Electronic edition compiled by Emer Purcellproofread by Caoimhín Ó Domhnaill, Emer Purcell

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The HEA via the LDT Project

1. First draft, revised and corrected

Extent of text: 20140 words

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(2006) (2010)

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Text ID Number: G303010

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Sources

    Manuscript sources
  1. Dublin, Trinity College Library, 1337 olim H. 3. 18 a vellum of the 16th century; pp. 196–197 contain the beginning of the tale under the title: Fic. d. Cannain ann so sis. This fragment is printed as an appendix on p. 61 of this edition.
  2. Dublin, Trinity College Library, H. 4. 14, Dublin, a paper MS. containing a collection of tales written (from p. 7 on) by Cathal Mac Searraidh, a northern scribe. The first four pages contain fragments by various scribes, dated from 1694 to 1700. Our tale begins on p. 5; pp. 5 and 6 are the work, not of Mac Searraidh, but of a later scribe, apparently written to supply the beginning of Mac Searraidh's copy which had been lost. Mac Searraidh seems to have written two slightly different hands, one more angular than the other, both of which recur through the volume and are witnessed by his signature; both are found in the present piece, the change occurring abruptly in the middle of p. 23. Our tale ends on p. 54 and is followed by date and colophon: "Finis an deachmadh lá do mhi April an bliadain d'aois an tigearna 1686. Gach duine da leighfidh an sdair tugadh luach a shaothuir don scriobhnóir eadhon beannachtain ar anam an ti rod scriobh .i. Cathal mac Searraidh". This is the text chosen for the present edition.
  3. Dublin, Trinity College Library, H. 5. 4, a duodecimo paper volume in a much frayed condition; our tale occupies pp. 149–212 and is imperfect, the first three leaves being lost; on p. 212 is the signature of the scribe Eoghan Ó Caoimh 1700–1701.
  4. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 23 M 25, written by Eoghan Ó Caoimh in the south of Ireland; the Feis Tighe Chonáin occupies pp. 86–111, followed by a colophon: Arna sgriobhadh le hEoghan O Caoimh on 15 (?) lá don July 1684 a nDún Ciaráin [Dunkerron, Co Kerry?] a bhfarradh O Suilliobháin Móir. This is the oldest text we possess except the fragment in H 3 18.
  5. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 23 K 7, pp. 173–201, with the signature of Domhnall Ó Mathúna and date March 20, 1744–1745.
  6. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 12 F 7, pp. 164–199, written in a very clear script by Uillióg a Búrc in Co. Cork, finished Jan 10, 1750.
  7. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 23 N 19, written by Seaghán Ó Conuill in Co. Cork about 1766.
  8. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 12 L 39, written 1777–1778 by John Doyle.
  9. Other later MSS in RIA Library containing our tale are 23 C 13, 23 C 36, 23 B 2, 23 B 15, 23 M 19, 23 E 11 (written in the latter half of last century with an English translation; these I have examined but have not thougth it worth while to collate).
  10. The British Museum (now British Library) Irish MS. collection contains three copies of our tale: No. 1715 (Eg. 106 f. 112), written 1715–1717; No. 1711 (Eg. 133 f. 170), written in 1720 by Diarmuid Ó Conchubair of Limerick; and No. 1808 (Eg. 145.1) transcribed from Eg. 106. These I have not seen.
    Editions
  1. Maud Joynt, Feis Tighe Chonáin (Dublin 1936).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Feis Tighe Chonáin. Maud Joynt (ed), First edition [xi + 98 pp.; iii–x Introduction; x Abbreviations; 1–57 Text; 59–61 Variae Lectiones; 61–62 Variant text from H 3 18; 63–68 Notes; 69–94 Vocabulary; 95–96 Index of persons; 97–98 Index of places.] Stationery OfficeDublin (1936) . Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series. , No. 7

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Sampling Declaration

The present text represents pages 1–57 of the edited text; with variants and corrigenda integrated, and the appended text from H 3 18 on pp 61–62.

Editorial Declaration

Correction

Text has been checked and proofread twice. All corrections, including some by the editor and supplied text, are tagged. Line-breaks are numbered every five lines. From line 1110 onwards, there is an error of +5 in the hardcopy edition; and from line 1810 (numbered 1820), there is another error, bringing the count to +10. These are corrected in the electronic edition. The difference in numbering should be borne in mind when referring to lines.

Normalization

The electronic text represents the printed text. The editor's corrigenda and variant readings have been integrated. As start and end of each variant reading is not marked by the editor, and sometimes various readings are nested into one, there are cases in the electronic edition where the encoding of the apparatus had to be tentative. We have not collated the manuscripts afresh. The letter h has been hyphenated off when prefixed to nouns. Expansions shown in italics in the hardcopy have been marked ex. Letters supplied in square brackets by the editor are tagged sup. Page-breaks and line-breaks are marked pb and lb respectively, and numbered.

Hyphenation

When a hyphenated word (hard or soft) crosses a line-break, the break is marked after the completion of the hyphenated word.

Interpretation

Names of persons (given names), places and group names are not tagged. Direct speech is rendered q; except where it cannot be nested within/outside the apparatus; then it is rendered '. Poems and passages of rhetoric speech are treated as embedded texts, with speakers marked. Foliation is marked using the tag mls unit="folio" n="nn".

Canonical References

This text uses the DIV1 element to represent the Section.

Profile Description

Created: By one or more unknown author(s). Date range: c.900–1200.

Use of language

Language: [GA] The text is in early Middle Irish, but later spellings occur.
Language: [LA] Some words in Latin.
Language: [EN] Witness list in English.

List of hands

H1 [MS p 5–6] unknown

H2 [MS p 7–54] Cathal Mac Searraidh

Revision History