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.
[3] The Small Primer goes into detail regarding the poets' place in Irish society.
It lists the seven grades of poets, including their honor price, and the pay earned for the various meters they could perform.
Binchy suggested that Uraicecht Becc (alongside the legal tracts Bretha Étgid, Cóic Conara Fugill, and the first and second Bretha Nemed) was the work of a hypothesised Nemed school, perhaps located in Munster.
[4]: 247 Binchy suggested that there was a strong element influence on the writings of this school; this contention has come under criticism from Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Liam Breatnach and Aidan Breen.