Quatrains on Beltaine, &c.

An electronic edition

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Proofed by: Niall Brady
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Printed source of this digital edition

‘Quatrains on Beltaine, &c.’, ed. Kuno Meyer, Hibernica Minora (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1894) 48-9

Manuscript source of printed text

Bodleian Library Oxford Ms Rawlinson B 512, f. 98 d

Other manuscript versions

British Library Ms Harleian 5280 f. 35 d

Language:

Early Irish.

Published by:

Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae,
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
http://www.ucd.ie/tlh

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

Date: Final mark-up completed, 2007-12-11

Text ID: km.hm.003

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List of witnesses:

R: Bodleian Library Oxford Ms. Rawlinson B 512
H: British Library Ms. Harleian 5280

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