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Notebook of Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin containing transcripts of poems from the Duanaire in the Yellow Book of Lecan (Trinity College Dublin MS.1318)., 1st quarter of 20th century.

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Identifier: MS.14872

Scope and Contents

Also included are extracts from Adv.MS.72.1.29, Adv.MS.72.1.39, and other manuscripts. With notes, variant readings and sometimes complete alternative versions, mostly on facing page.

References are given below to the translations and revised texts in MS.14870.

The contents are as follows.

(i) Lists of poems from various sources (folio 1 recto);

(ii) Donnachadh Mór. “Eist ream fhaoisdin a ĺosa”, 22 quatrains (folio 15 recto);

(iii) Donnachadh Mór. ‘Creidim dhuit abhlainn uasail’, 16 quatrains (folio 17 recto);

(iv) Tadhg Óg. “Iongna m’aisling a nEamhain”, 45 quatrains (middle of folio 18 recto);

(v) Tadhg Óg. “Connuimh róm taighidh a Aodh”, 19 quatrains (folio 22 recto);

(vi) Tadhg Óg. “Iomdha sgéal maith ar Mhuire”, 17 quatrains (folio 23 verso);

(vii) Giolla Brighde Mac Con Mhidhe. “Dean orum trocuire a thríonnóid”, 29 quatrains (folio 26 recto);

(viii) Tadhg. ‘Cia do gebainn co Grainne’, 18 quatrains (folio 28 verso);

(ix) Tadhg. ‘Mor mo chuid do chumaidh Taidhg', 49 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 687 (middle of folio 30 recto);

(x) Tadhg. ‘Annois do tuigfidhe Tadhg’, 23 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 655 (middle of folio 33 verso);

(xi) Tadhg. “Fuilngidh bhur lén a leath Cuinn", 44 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 753 (folio 38 recto);

(xii) Tadhg. “Fada in ráithisi romum", 41 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 701 (middle of page 41 recto);

(xiii) Tadhg. ‘Imdha rod direch co Dia’, 41 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 658 (folio 44 verso);

(xiv) Tadhg. ‘Ata sind ar sligidh’, 21 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 661 (middle of folio 47 verso);

(xv) Tadhg. ‘Ag so braighi dheit a Dhe’, 36 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 737 (folio 49 verso);

(xvi) Tadhg Óg. ‘Tagair red mac a Muire’, 36 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 719 (folio 52 verso);

(xvii) ‘Fearg an Choimdhi re clainn Adhaimh’, 28 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 731 (folio 55 verso);

(xviii) ‘Aighi misi ac mathair Dhe’, 30 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 725 (folio 55 verso);

(xix) “Gabh mh’eignech a Eoin baisdi”, 28 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 707 (folio 60 verso);

(xx) Transcripts from Adv.MS.72.3.12 (folio 63 verso);

(xxi) Muireadhach. “Cían ó d’ibess digh ndermaid”, 26 quatrains (folio 72 recto);

(xxii) Muireadhach. ‘A Dhomhnaill deglam fa sid’, 38 quatrains (folio 74 recto);

(xxiii) “Ní deoraidh meisi a Manainn”, 37 quatrains (folio 77 recto);

(xxiv) ‘Uchan uch gid olc bar crelem’, 24 quatrains (folio 87 recto);

(xxv) ‘Fuigeall beandacht bru Muiri’, 22 quatrains (folio 88 verso);

(xxvi) Donnchadh Mór. ‘Gabum deachmhadh ar ndana’, 43 quatrains (folio 92 recto);

(xxvii) Maolmuire Ó Huiginn. ‘A fhir treabhus an ttulaigh’, 3 quatrains (folio 97 recto);

(xxviii) Giolla Bríghde Ó Heodhusa. ‘A dhuine chuirios an crann’, 4 quatrains (middle of folio 97 recto);

(xxix) Tadhg Óg. “Maircc nech do ní derbháile”, 8 quatrains (folio 98 recto);

(xxx) Giolla Bríghde Mhac na Midhe. ‘Tainic an Croibhdherg go Cruachain’, 36 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 681. Published by Quiggin in ‘Miscellany presented to Kuno Meyer’, page 167 (folio 98 verso);

(xxxi) ‘Bennacht ort a Floinn Aidhne’, 12 quatrains (folio 102 recto);

(xxxii) “Brégthar ben ré séad suirge”, 13 quatrains (folio 102 verso);

(xxxiii) “A ogáin ón a ogáin”, 9 quatrains (folio 104 recto);

(xxxiv) ‘An ccluine me a macaoim mna’, 10 quatrains (folio 104 verso);

(xxxv) “Aithin mé dod t’oide a Eóin”, 19 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 663 (folio 105 verso);

(xxxvi) “Cía ghabhus m’anmuin re a ais”, 27 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 745 (middle of folio 106 verso);

(xxxvii) ‘Maircc danab soirb an saoghal’, 36 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 713 (middle of page 109 recto);

(xxxviii) ‘Anocht sgaoilid na sgola’, 30 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 695 (folio 111 verso);

(xxxix) ‘Seacht mhbriathra an Coimdhe san crann’, 11 quatrains (folio 115 recto);

(xl) Tadhg Óg. ‘On aird tuaidh tig an chabhair’, 38 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 664 (folio 115 verso);

(xli) Tadhg Óg. “Beg nach ttainig mo thérma”, 48 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 666 (folio 118 verso);

(xlii) Tadhg Ó Dálaigh. “Ben ar naitheirghe Éire”, 21 quatrains (folio 122 verso);

(xliii) Tadhg Óg. ‘Ata an saoghal ag seirmoir’, 36 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 670 (folio 123 verso);

(xliv) “Trom an suanso air shíol Ádhaimh”, 37 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 672 (folio 126 verso);

(xlv) ‘La a Temraigh ac Toirdelbach’, 31 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 674 (folio 130 recto);

(xlvi) ‘Fada o Ulltaibh a noidhre’, 43 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 676 (folio 133 recto);

(xlvii) ‘Toghaidh Dian each na naoidhin’, 47 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 678 (middle of folio 136 recto);

(xlviii) Philip Bocht. ‘Becc nar dhermadas mo dhuthaigh’, 25 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 749 (folio 139 verso);

(xliv) “Dá bhraghaid uainn an Inis”, 28 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 675 (folio 141 verso);

(xlv) “Múin aithridhe dhamh a Dhé”, 33 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 752 (folio 145 recto);

(xlvi) Cían Ó Huiginn, Maolmuire Ó Huiginn. “Mochen do theacht a chláirseach”, 14 quatrains (folio 148 recto);

(xlvii) Giolla Brighde Albanach. ‘Tabhroidh cugum cruit mo riogh’, 13 quatrains (folio 149 recto, line 4);

(xlviii) ‘Foillsigh do mirbuile a Muire’, 15 quatrains. MS.14870, folio 680 (folio 150 verso);

(xliv) Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh. “Mi ar áeis iartur nime”, 33 quatrains (folio 153 recto);

(xlv) Tadhg Ócc Cíanán. ‘Trian Connacht ar coimet aeinfir’, 27 quatrains (middle of folio 154 recto);

(xlvi) Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh. ‘Da co…………ch tighearna’, 26 quatrains (middle of folio 155 recto);

(xlvii) ‘Fada in chabair a Cruachain’, 17 quatrains (folio 157 recto);

(xlviii) “Da roinn comtroma air chrích Néill”, 47 quatrains (folio 158 recto);

(xlix) ‘Do fidir Dia cinel Conaill’, 24 quatrains (folio 162 recto);

(l) “Ata sunn seanchas Múain”, 24 quatrains (folio 164 recto);

(li) ‘Dearmad do fhagbhus ag Aodh’, 25 quatrains (folio 166 recto);

(lii) ‘Rogha na cloinne Conall’, 11 quatrains (folio 168 recto);

(liii) Poem (acephalous and imperfect) beginning …… ‘carrthair geg fa gelcnoib’ (folio 172 recto);

(liv) Lists of poems from various sources (folio 173 verso);

(lv) Tale beginning “Dia mbaoi Sémas mhac Torcuill a ríghe Alban” (folio 180 recto);

(lvi) ‘Sloindfead athachtuatha Eirend’, 18 quatrains (folio 191 recto);

(lvii) Lists of poems from various sources (folio 193 recto).

Dates

  • Creation: 1st quarter of 20th century.

Conditions Governing Access

Normal access conditions apply.

Conditions Governing Use

Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.

Extent

194 Leaves ; Quarto.

Language of Materials

Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic

Arrangement

194 folios (many folios blank).

Bibliography

Meyer, Kuno, Osborn Bergin, and Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander. ‘Miscellany presented to Kuno Meyer by some of his friends and pupils on the occasion of his appointment to the Chair of Celtic Philology in the University of Berlin’ (Halle, 1912).

Repository Details

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