Stifter, David (2024) The dawn and twilight of Old Irish scholarship. Language & History. pp. 1-22. ISSN 1759-7536

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Abstract

Even though the publication of Johann Kaspar Zeuss’s monu-mental Grammatica Celtica (Zeuss 1853) marks the beginning of the modern, scientific study of the Old Irish language, short excerpts of the most important textual witnesses of Old Irish, the so-called Old Irish glosses, preserved in 8th–9th-century manuscripts on the European Continent, had appeared in print since the early 18th century. This article gives an overview of these early publications from the 18thand early 19th century by Johann Georg von Eckhart, Domenico Vallarsi, Lodovico Antonio Muratori, and Vittorio Amedeo Peyron, and assesses their role as early trailblazers inthe study of Old Irish

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Old Irish; Old Irish glosses; 18th–19th century scholarship; pre-Zeussian Celtic scholarship;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Celtic Studies > Early Irish (Sean Ghaeilge)
Item ID:	19107
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2024.2354085
Depositing User:	Prof. David Stifter
Date Deposited:	29 Oct 2024 10:22
Journal or Publication Title:	Language & History
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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