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Manuscript containing a collection of tales by an anonymous Irish scribe.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.6
Scope and Contents
A recueil of material by an anonymous Irish scribe, probably the end portion of a larger manuscript.Of the manuscript, Ingliston MS. A.i.15 (g) declares “that he [Patrick Turner] purchased the manuscript without a cover and marked No.III. from a flying stationer in Dublin, whose name he cannot recollect”.'Peter Turner Aug' is written on page 427. On the final page, page 362, in addition to being inscribed ‘N. III’, it is signed by Turner and initialled by John...
Dates:
18th century.
Manuscript containing Irish tales and verse written by Seán Mac Cíar.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written (except page 68) by Seán Mac Cíar (John Short), a native of Clogher, County Tyrone, in 1738. Other hands appear in marginalia at pages 81 (‘Patt C[ ]’), 301 (including ‘Arthur Mates is this Book / and if it be Lost / or sole pray send home gain to Lucan’), 327, 330 (‘Arthur Magma [ ] is my Name and [ ] I write same So [ ]’), 332 and 334. The name of Michael MacDonald appears at pages 81, 308, 312 and 313, with the addition of ‘Kells’ at page 81 and of ‘his hand and...
Dates:
18th century.
Manuscript containing “Táin Bó Cuailnge” and other tales in Gaelic, written by Fear Feasa Ó Duibhgeannáin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.9
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by Fear Feasa Ó Duibhgeannáin, whose subscription, “Trocuire co bfagbha an tí do scriobh sin .i. Fer Fesa O Duibgennain / amen”, appears, with the name smudged, at folio 10 recto. The hand is the same as that of Royal Irish Academy 24.N.3, written by Fear Feasa Ó Duibhgeannáin in County Leitrim in 1666, and substantially the same as that of Trinity College Dublin 1394 (H.5.22), written by the same scribe in County Wexford in 1646.Scribal marginalia are...
Dates:
Mid-17th century.