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Manuscript of Foras Feasa Ar Éirinn (continued), a history of Ireland, by Geoffrey Keating, (Seathrún Céitinn).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is a continuation of Adv.MS.72.1.43, folio 18. The original codex appears to have disintegrated at an early stage, being recorded as coverless from its first appearance in 1803. Its later history can be traced as 4 sections:A. Adv.MS.72.1.43.B. Adv.MS.72.2.1, folios 1-8 (in origin a single sheet, cf. Donald Mackinnon).C. Adv.MS.72.2.1, folios 9-18 (distinguished from B notably by hole in middle of pages 9 and what follows).D....
Dates:
1647, or after.
Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.11
Scope and Contents
The scribe of the manuscript is Sémus Ó Gribín, who also wrote Royal Irish Academy 24 L 17, Geoffrey Keating’s ‘Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn’. He completed the manuscript in March 1696 for Patrick Logan, schoolmaster at Lurgan. Bound in (folios vi-vii) is a letter dated Lurgan, 17th August 1696, from Logan to an unnamed friend, consigning the manuscript to him for scholarly perusal and ultimate delivery to the Advocates Library. It thus became the first of the Advocates’ Gaelic manuscripts....
Dates:
1696.