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032-002024950

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Add MS 33993

Title:

Collection of Irish narratives, elegies poetry and scholastic tracts, and a genealogy for certain Anglo-Norman families in Tipperary

Scope & Content:

This manuscript consists of two parts which were originally separate.

A detailed description is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, II, pp. 1-6.

Part 1, ff. 1-19: early Irish narratives, a moral tale, a genealogy of the Purcells, and poetry.

Part 2, ff. 20-29: fragmentary remains of two scholastic texts.

Contents:

Part 1

ff. 1r-v: Abbreviated version of Táin bó Regamain.

ff. 1v-2v: Abbreviated version of Táin bó Dartada.

ff. 2v-3v: Síaburcharpat Con Chulaind. Imperfect after f. 3v (finishes at the start of l. 96 of Meyer's edition).

ff. 4r-5v: Togail bruidne Da Derga. Incomplete at 5v (stops around l. 145 of Knott's edition (§ 13)).

f. 5v: Genealogy of the Purcells, beginning with Thomas Purcell, the 16th-century Baron of Loughmore.

ff. 6r-7r: Eachtra Sheóin Mandavil. Fragmentary version. Incomplete at 7r. Concludes with the line '& rucadur léo co garda Anda i fiadnaisi in espaic agus luchta'.

ff. 7v-8r: Audacht Morann (recension A). Incomplete. Concludes with §34, 'dligid cach gubrethach gaire'.

ff. 8v-9v: 'Lughart gan fhal in egna', poem on the death of John Cantwell, Archbishop of Cashel (b. 1424, d. 1482).

ff. 9v-11v: 'Mairg dar cumtach in cuma', poem on the death of James Purcell, Baron of Loughmore, son of Mairgréig (Margaret) and Tomás.

ff. 11v-13v: 'Ní duinn nach easbaidh eg Taidhg', elegy for Tadhg O'Carrol of Rathenny, son of Donnchadh and Mairgréig.

ff. 13v-14v: 'Decair comall don cumha', elegy for Pilib Aiceáid (Philip Hackett), son of Padraigín and Áine, grandson of Uilliam.

ff. 14v-15r: 'Réalta na cruinde Catrina', poem on St Catharine.

ff. 15v-16v: 'Truagh truagh in muc', poem on a dead pig, named Ubhdán by the poet.

ff. 16v-17v: 'Fir uisgi maith a ciall maith a tuicsi', poem contrasting later clerics with their earlier counterparts.

f. 17v: 'Mor loites an lethcuma', poem on unfair dealing; '[Dá/Má?] mad in cerd na taithiter', poem on the neglect of poetry and clowns wearing fine clothes (badly faded); 'Ni ferrdi na fir bodaig', poem on the waste of learning on clowns.

ff. 18r-v: 'Maith in conách clú gaiscid', poem praising Pierce Butler, son of James, from Dún Iasgach (Cahir, Co. Tipperary).

f. 18v: A note on the Mac Piarais lineage of the Butlers. Begins 'Tomais mac Tiboid derbrathair e don ced iarla tainic in Tomas sin'.

f. 19r: 'Bean fhoiris in ealadhain', poem on the lack of generosity towards poets and commending a woman who helped the poet.

ff. 19r-v: Note on the descent of the Butlers from Theobald FitzWalter. f. 19v is faded and stained. Begins 'Beidteud sloine Irla Irmumhan ocus is mar so tucadh Buitiler orra'.

Part 2

ff. 20r-28v: Fragments of a treatise on philosophy. Text is badly faded and mostly text lost on ff. 20r-v. A heading can be read on f. 20v saying 'Elementum et corpus simplex comp[...] ex quatuor principiis'. A heading on f. 21v states 'Quatuor sunt principia nature' and on f. 27v: Compossicio quatuur diuid[licitur]'.

ff. 28v-29r: Beginning of a tract on hyle. Mostly illegible due to fading, A more complete copy can be found in London, British Library, Arundel MS 333, ff. 98-111.

Scribal notes and marginal poems are found throughout.

Decorations:

Letters highlighted in red (f. 6r). Large initials throughout.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Irish

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1460

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

Late 15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 180 x 130mm (written area 130-140 x 110-120mm) [ff. 1-19]; 140 x 115 (written area 105-110 x 85mm) [ff. 20-29].

Foliation: ff. 29 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).

Script: Irish. Headings in Latin script at ff. 8v, 9v.

Binding: Post-1600. Dark blue leather. Marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Part 1 was written in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. The genealogy on f. 5v and the poem on ff. 8v-11v suggest that the manuscript may have been made under the patronage of the Purcells of Loughmore, Co. Tipperary.

Provenance:

Cahill Conwye: possible ownership inscription 'Cahill Conwye is Booke' (f. 5r). Late 16th or early 17th century.

Sir James Ware (b. 1594, d. 1666): possessed both parts of the manuscript before 1648 and had them bound with other manuscripts (now British Library Add MSS 33991-92, 33994). No. viii of the section 'Libri Historici, politici et geographici' in the catalogue of Ware's manuscripts (see O'Sullivan, 'A finding list of Sir James Ware's manuscripts', pp. 84-99).

Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (b.1638, d.1709): acquired the manuscript after the death of James Ware (Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, ed. by Edward Bernard, 2 vols (Oxford: Theatro Sheldoniano, 1697), ii, part. 2, p. 4.

John Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (b. 1673 d. 1744): owned the manuscript after Henry Hyde. The manuscript is listed in Christopher Cock's sale catalogue of the Duke of Chandos's possessions after his death (p. 65, no. 1569).

Add MS 33991 contains the bookplates of John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira (b. 1720, d. 1793) and William Horatio Crawford of Cork (b. c. 1815, d. 1888).

Purchased by the British Museum at the Crawford Sale, Sotheby's, 18 March 1891, lot 1690.

Publications:

Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Standish Hayes O'Grady (vol. I) and Robin Flower (vol. II), 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1926; repr. 1992), ii, pp. 1-6.

O'Sullivan, William, 'A finding list of Sir James Ware's manuscripts', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature (1997), 69-99.

A General Catalogue of Books, Arranged in Classes, offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch (London: G. Norman and son, 1870), p. 132.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Brydges, John, 1st Duke of Chandos
Cantwell, John, Archbishop of Cashel
Conwye, Cahill
Hyde, Henry, 2nd Earl of Clarendon
Mandeville, John, legendary author,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110299577,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78770305
Ware, James, of Add MS 33991

Places:

Ireland, Europe