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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 Irish verse, written by the scribe Séamus Ó Maolruanaigh.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.4
Scope and Contents
The scribe (except page 44) of the manuscript is Séamus Ó Maolruanaigh. Marginalia in his hand, both Roman and Gaelic, are to be found on the flyleaf, on page 1 (Page 1, line 5 ‘James’; the lower three-eighths of the folio has been torn out, leaving ‘[ ] his hand and seal’ in margin), page 3, page 4 (‘Semus o ionnraic liom mar an geadna mar amhrn’), page 11, page 15 (‘[Se]mus ua Maolruadhneadh a labhar ⁊ a laimh / a n-aois an tidh’), page 17 (‘James M’ twice, with an intervening 6-line...
Dates:
18th century.
Manuscript containing scholastic texts in Gaelic.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.7
Scope and Contents
There are only two or three hands in this singularly well-preserved and rather beautiful portion of manuscript, and only one non-scribal marginalium. The chief hand or style of the text (folios 1-5, 8-11) uses some fine decorative initials (partly zoomorphic) and red, yellow, green and brown colouring. The other (folios 6-7) is unembellished. The marginalium, “Ní bí amuigh aonduini ón ég”, 2 lines (folio 7 recto) is in a large formal script recalling a hand of the Annals of Ulster in...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript containing syllabic verse in Gaelic, written by members of the MacMhuirich family.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.48
Scope and Contents
This manuscript bears all the marks of a MacMhuirich provenance. The scribe who wrote the greater part of it is unknown, but his Gaelic hand is precise and well formed. Two poems (folios 9 verso, 10 verso) are in the hand of Niall MacMhuirich (circa 1639-1726), of whom the chief scribe was evidently a contemporary. A third hand, unknown, is responsible for the text at folio 32, which is further distinguished from foregoing folios by its common ‘pot’ watermark - the rest having what appears...
Dates:
Between 1660 and 1678.
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.
Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.41
Scope and Contents
Originally 2 separate manuscripts: (a) folios 1 and 16, (b) folios 2-15. Part (a), a bifolium, is by a single anonymous hand, origin and date unknown. John Mackenzie, secretary of the Highland Society of London described part (a) as “A small Octavo Vellum Manuscript in Prose, containing two Leaves, signed, London Janry. 5th. 1803 John Mackenzie”. (Highland Society of Scotland minutes.) Part (b) was written by several hands, one text to each. The main text, the Letter...
Dates:
(?)15th century-17th century.
Manuscript containing the poems of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (Alexander MacDonald), written in Gaelic script.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.13
Scope and Contents
Of the two manuscripts mentioned in the custodial history note only the present one remains. A little further evidence for the ascription to Alasdair lies in the small portions of text in Roman hand (pages 118, 176; compendium &, passim), which may be compared with the facsimile of the poet’s hand published as frontispiece to the 1924 edition of his work. The manuscript was written during or after 1747 (cf. pages 143, 146, 149), and some of the poems, notably “An Àirce” (page 169),...
Dates:
1747.
Manuscript containing 'Togail na Tebe', a Gaelic prose adaptation the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and 'Togail Troi', a Gaelic adaption of 'De excidio Troiae historia', and other texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.8
Scope and Contents
The volumes consists of two separate manuscripts. The first, which ends at folio 27, may have once formed part of the manuscript that constitutes the Yellow Book of Lecan columns 573-958 (see Ó Con cheanainn, “Gilla Ísa Mac Fir Bhisigh and a Scribe of his School”, page 157.The manuscript is written in the following hands:1. Text, folios 1 recto-5 verso, column b, line 40, 9 recto-22 verso. Gilla Ísa Mac Fir Bhisigh, poet and historian to Ó Dubhda Tír...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing short religious, historical and mythological texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text and notes, folios 1 verso-10 verso. A hand of a type more characteristic of medical manuscripts, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.12. Distinctive uncial 'r' and v-shaped 'u'. No decoration save some red on capitals, folios 5-10. From various additions in a similar hand, especially that at folio 6 verso, column b, line 41, it appears as if the scribe returned to annotate his work at a later point in time. Possibly in fact more than one hand:...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript known as ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, containing medical notes in Gaelic and prayers and Psalm 118 in Latin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.4
Scope and Contents
This remarkably small, chubby manuscript, ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, is described by David McRoberts in ‘Two Hebridean liturgical items’, page 171, with a plate showing its external appearance. ‘Cleric and physician’, he concludes, ‘he . . . had in his vade-mecum, which he would fasten to his belt, all the literature he required (his substitute for the Divine Office and his medical notes) when he set out to attend to the souls and bodies of his parishioners’. The ‘Divine Office’ is Psalm...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10217-10241
Dates:
1657-1919.
Manuscript of a 'materia medica' in Gaelic, with some specifics and a calendar.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.3
Scope and Contents
A materia medica, with some specifics (prescriptions) and a calendar. Text, decoration and certain of the hands all bear comparison with John Rylands Library MS. Ir. 35, a manuscript of Scottish provenance for which see Ingliston MS. A.i.9, number 50, and ‘The Academy’, volume 49, page 405.The manuscript is written by the following hands:1. Text, folios i-33, 36-39. A very fine hand bearing similarities to that of Domhnall Albanach Ó Troighthigh, British...
Dates:
?15th century.
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.
Manuscript of the ‘Dindshenchas’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.16
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, folio 1. Large, with tall loop on ‘g’. Fine ornamental initials, decoration in red.2. Folio 1, lower margin. Large.3. Text, folios 2-5. Large, many oblique strokes. A bold clear hand. Ornamental initials, decoration in red.4. Text, folio 6. Large but crude, written between rather than on the lines and therefore irregular in appearance.In addition there are marginalia on every...
Dates:
?15th Century.
Manuscript of the 'Memoirs of Sir Henry Slingsby From 1638 to 1648', which was used by Sir Walter Scott in his edition of 'Original memoirs, written during the Great Civil War: being the life of Sir Henry Slingsby, and memoirs of Capt. Hodgson. With notes. &c'.
Item
Identifier: MS.23621
Scope and Contents
The text is carefully written in a late eighteenth-century hand (evidence of pricking survives in the outer margins of most of the leaves) and bears marks of Sir Walter Scott's editorial work. The chief alteration to the text is the replacement by Scott of Sir Henry Slingsby's last sentence; otherwise the amendments consist mostly of expansions of contracted words and the introduction of consistency in the use of capitals; the additions are in the form of footnotes, a few of which were not...
Dates:
Late 18th century-[1806 or before.]
Manuscript of the ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, written soon after the middle of the 15th century, and belonging to the Charterhouse at Perth.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Quoniam attachiamaenta’ (folio 1). Folios 7 verso and 8 are blank. ‘Acts of the Scottish Parliament’, i, pages 281-295.(ii) `Modus seu processus breuium`, elsewhere the last chapters of the `Quoniam attachiamenta` (folio 10). Only the title of the last one is written on folio 12 recto.Folio 12 verso blank.(iii) `De exceptionibus` (folio 13).(iv) `Modus procedendi in itinere...
Dates:
14th century-3rd quarter of 15th century.
Manuscript of the “Togail Troí”.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, pages 1-49. Tuathal Buidhe Ó Duibhgeannáin (cf. pages ii, 10, 32, 42). Perhaps the Tuathal Ó Duibhgeannáin of the celebrated Connacht scribal family whose son Cú-coigcríche (flourished 1629) was one of the Four Masters (Walsh, ‘Irish men of learning’, page 2). His hand is rather large and coarse, and includes a frequent distinctive ‘a’ with curved-back ascender. There are some decorative initials, with a little mauve...
Dates:
?16th century.
Manuscript of the translation by Jacobus Venetus of the 'Analytica Posteriora' by Aristotle, with contemporary and later gloss.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.6
Scope and Contents
Subscription, folio 36 verso: 'Explicit liber posteriorum simul cum tota nova logica'.Calligraphic initials in red and blue with elaborate scrollwork. Sentence and paragraph marks in red or blue. Marginal ink drawings of geometrical shapes (folios 19 verso, 20 recto), a dog (folio 28 verso) and a besieged castle (folio 29 recto).On the inside top cover is written '14/[ ] a/-'; on folio i verso in an 18th-century hand 'Ce petit traité sur aristote Manuscrit et [sic] de...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript of three papers read to the Glasgow Bibliographical Society on 21 January 1918 by Dr George Neilson.
File
Identifier: MS.10334
Scope and Contents
The subjects of the papers are:
“The unique copy of the first edition of Hume of Godscroft's ‘History'” (folio 1);
"Principal Baillie's copy of Osorius" (folio 6);
'An early Virgil' (folio 8).
A page of annotations by George P Johnston, 1928, has been inserted (folio i).
Dates:
1918, 1928.
Manuscript, written by Antonio Caballario, of the 'Eclogues' and 'Aeneid' of Virgil.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.14
Scope and Contents
`Aeneid` i.1-45 are lost. There are verse arguments to `Aeneid` ii-xii (Pseudo-Ovid in ‘Anthologia Latina’, 1).Subscription to the `Eclogues`, folio 17 verso: `Explicit liber Bucolicorum Antonii filii S. Leonardi de bagnara Scriptus p(er) me Antoniu(m) Caballa(r)iu(m) 1467 die 28 Augusti`.Initials in red and purple or blue and purple to each `Eclogue`, to the arguments of `Aeneid` ii, iv-xii, and to `Aeneid` ii, v-xii. Initials infilled with a flower or with leaves,...
Dates:
1467.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Folios 1-8 (first layer):This part of the manuscript is written by a strong and slightly angular hand varying in size from small to average. Decoration and colour (red and brown) are profuse. In support of the premise that the first and second layers of the manuscript were bound together at an early stage, marginalia which look as if they are by a common hand are found at folios 1 recto (‘Meisi’), 2 recto (‘Meisi m’), 10 verso (‘Mar as c’),...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic written by Donnchadh Ó Conchubhair (Duncan O’Conacher, 1571-1647).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.22
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written under MacDougall’s patronage in Lorne and Ossory, 1596-1600, by Donnchadh Ó Conchubhair (Duncan O’Conacher, 1571-1647) at the behest of Ollamh Osraige, Donnchadh Óg Ó Conchubhair, and with the help of Cathal mac Cuinn Uí Dhuinnshléibhe (the scribe of Royal Irish Academy 23 N 16), Giolla Pádraig mac Donnchaidh Óig Uí Chonchubhair, Niall Mac Iomhair, and others. When writing in Ireland Donnchadh uses the distinguishing epithet Albannach. His pedigree, Donnchadh mac...
Dates:
1596-1600.
Microfilm of manuscripts of Statius, Virgil, Ovid and Claudian.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.534
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Two originally separate manuscripts, 12th century-13th century, of Statius and Virgil, bound together from at least the late 14th century, when the volume was in the Library of Dover Priory (Adv.MS.18.5.12);
Two originally separate manuscripts, late 12th century-13th century, of the ‘Fasti’ by Ovid and of major poems of Claudian, the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey, bound together from at least the 16th century (Adv.MS.18.5.13).
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of ‘Roman de la Rose’, [circa 1230, circa 1270]; and, ‘The Talbot Hours’, 15th century.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.520
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, late 14th or early 15th century, of ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270 (Adv.MS.19.1.7);
‘The Talbot Hours’, Psalter and Hours, 15th century (Dep.221/1).
Dates:
[Circa 1230]-15th century.
Mid-14th century manuscript of the ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.6
Scope and Contents
The first author, Guillaume de Lorris, wrote, circa 1230, a courtly allegorical poem of about 4000 verses, which sought to be an ‘art of love’, and which was continued, circa 1270, by Jean de Meun, who added about 17000 verses in a very different style and ideological frame. The whole opus is one of the most important literary works of the late Western Middle Ages, its influence upon the world of literature running until late in the Renaissance. This encyclopaedia of love (which also, in the...
Dates:
Mid-14th century.