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Manuscript in Gaelic of the life of Saint Findchua of Brí Gobhann.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.24
Scope and Contents According to its colophon (folio 8 recto), the manuscript is written by Conchubhar for the vicar and parson of Brí Gobhann (Mitchelstown, County Cork) and for the grandson of Robert Condon, all of whom, apparently, have promised to pay him for his work. He adds, apparently by way of warning, that his attorney (tuirrne) is Denis Ó Duinnín; this may be the Donnchadh mac Giolla-na-naomh Uí Dhuinnín who wrote a section of the Yellow Book of Lecan in ?1465. Conchubhar’s script is generally...
Dates: ?15th Century.

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  • Language: Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic X
  • Subject: Hagiographies. Works. X