Uraicecht Becc, Old Irish for Small Primer, is an early Irish legal tract on status, concerned with the legal standing of different kinds of people. Of all the status tracts it has the greatest breadth in coverage, taking in commoners, kings, churchmen and poets as well as a variety of other professional groups, including judges, though it goes into less detail for each group and level than other status tracts do. The scholar T. M. Charles-Edwards suggests that it is almost certainly of Munster origin, since it asserts the supremacy of the king of Munster above other Irish kings and refers to the monasteries of Emly and Cork.
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Uraicecht Becc (Old Irish for "Small Primer"; uraicecht is a variant of airaiccecht [air- 'before' + aiccecht 'instruction,' from Latin acceptum], 'primer') is an Old Irish legal tract on status.
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Uraicecht Becc (Old Irish for "Small Primer"; uraicecht is a variant of air
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