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Composite manuscript of miscellaneous Gaelic texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.8
Scope and Contents
A composite ('mangeral', page 194) manuscript of 3 sections, the first probably from Ulster, the others from Munster.Section 1: Pages 13-182. ‘Foolscap’ watermark typical of latter half of 17th century. The hand at pages 13-120 is otherwise unknown, but the date ‘1709’ (page 44, margin) may be an indication of the year of writing. That at pages 121-180 is Hand X of the Antrim Manuscript, National Museum of Scotland MCR 40.Section 2: Pages 182a-272. ‘Coat of arms’...
Dates:
18th century.
Gaelic manuscript known as the ‘Emanuel Manuscript’, written by Tadhg Ó Cianáin and containing 'An Cath Cathardha', a medieval Irish version of the Latin epic poem 'Pharsalia' by Lucan.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.46
Scope and Contents
The 'Emanuel MS.', so named by Thomas Astle from the word ‘Emanuel’ (‘Emanuel amen’, folio 6 recto) being prominently inscribed by the text-hand at the top of most pages, generally boxed in red. It is written, as Donald Mackintosh says (Gaelic Ossian, volume 3, page 567), in a ‘strong beautiful hand’: that of Tadhg Ó Cianáin. His colophon (folio 2 verso), now very indistinct, appears to be dated 1462; at any rate he wrote the manuscript, he tells us, during the kingship of Tomás Óg Maguire...
Dates:
1462.
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 “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.