Uraicecht Becc (Old Irish for "Small Primer"; uraicecht is a variant of airaiccecht [air- 'before' + aiccecht 'instruction,' from Latin acceptum], 'primer'[1]) is an Old Irish legal tract on status. Of all status tracts, it has the greatest breadth in coverage, including not only commoners, kings, churchmen and poets, but also a variety of other professional groups, including judges. However, it does not go into as much detail for each group and level as do other status tracts.[2] T.M. Charles-Edwards suggests that it is "almost certainly of Munster origin", as it asserts the supremacy of the king of Munster above other Irish kings and makes reference to the monasteries of Emly and Cork.[3]
^electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language s.v. aiccecht, airaiccecht.
^Liam Breatnach, A Companion to the Corpus Iuris Hibernici, pp. 316-7.
^T.M. Charles-Edwards, "Early Irish law." In A New History of Ireland, p. 347.
UraicechtBecc (Old Irish for "Small Primer"; uraicecht is a variant of airaiccecht [air- 'before' + aiccecht 'instruction,' from Latin acceptum], 'primer')...
receive when a crime was committed against them. Críth Gablach and UraicechtBecc are two of the main texts focusing on lay landholders, the latter of...
other being the fili. According to the Early Irish law text on status, UraicechtBecc, bards were a lesser class of poets, not eligible for higher poetic...
Corpus of Electronic Texts. Mary Jones. Retrieved 13 December 2019. UraicechtBecc ("Little Primer") (transl. 1881). Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí. Myth, Legend & Romance:...
formalised literary language that changed very little. According to the UraicechtBecc in Old Irish Law, bards and filid were distinct groups: filid involved...
than that due to a bóaire (an ordinary freeman). Another law-text, UraicechtBecc ('small primer'), gives the druid a place among the dóer-nemed or professional...
consumption, 25-31. Binchy, D. A. (1958). The date and provenance of UraicechtBecc. Ériu, 44-54. Comber, M. (2008). The economy of the ringfort and contemporary...
The kingship of Cashel, argued in early Munster sources, e.g., the UraicechtBecc, as actually the most powerful in Ireland, was founded in the middle...
Annals of Inisfallen An Leabhar Muimhneach Leabhar na Núachongbhála UraicechtBecc Knockgraffon "MacCarthy Mor (No. 1.)". LibraryIreland.com. Retrieved...
the role of ecclesiastical scholars, which is reflected also in the UraicechtBecc and Collectio canonum Hibernensis both are connected with the Nemed...
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