A concise Irish grammar : with pieces for reading / by Ernst Windisch ; translated from the German by Norman Moore.

  • Ernst Windisch
Date:
1882
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Credit: A concise Irish grammar : with pieces for reading / by Ernst Windisch ; translated from the German by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quence of Irish orthography in MSS. is well known : a great part of it is due to the fact that tlie scribes some- times retained the ancient written form and sometimes followed the changed pronunciation of their own time. I have given the forms as I found them and have only allowed myself a certain uniformity in the paradigms. Old Irish is the lanofuai^e of the Vlllth and ixth cen- turies, as it is found in the glosses of the MSS. of Milan, S. Gall, Wiirzburg, Karlsruhe, Turin, &c. In the Appendix of the Grammatica Celtica specimens of them are to be seen. The Turin glosses have been published in extenso by C. Nigra (Paris, 1869), and by Stokes in the Goidelica. In the latter are numerous shorter Old Irish glosses gleaned from other MSS. together with the Irish annotations of the Book of Armagh, a MS. of the IX th century. The Codex of S. Gall (gleanings from which are edited in Nigra's Reliquie Celtiche, Turin, 1872) is to be published in full by Ascoli after the Milan Codex. [Le Oh lose Irlandesi del Codice di San Gallo. Archiv. Glott. Ital. Vol. vi., 1880. In the meantime a collection of the Old Irish glosses in the minor manu- scripts, but including those of the Wiirzburg and the two Karlsruhe manuscripts, was published by H. Zimmer, Glossoe Hibernicte Berol. 1881.] The xth and xith centuries are scarcely represented by more important MSS. [The Irish of the Stowe Missal is attributed by Wh. Stokes to the XIth or xilth century. Ztsch. f. Vergl. Spof XXVL, p. 298.] The oldest Middle Irish MSS. begin about the year 1100. To this period belongs the Leabhar na huidre (Royal Irish Academy), Dublin, published in facsimile 1870. The Liber Hymnorum well known through Stokes' Goidelica is somewhat later. The Book of Leinster belonging to the Xlith century will also be published in facsimile (published 1880) and from