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Add MS 18205
- Record Id:
- 032-002028722
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002028722
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x000046
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 18205
- Title:
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Life of St Molaisse of Devinish
- Scope & Content:
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Life of St Molaisse and other texts in verse and prose related to the saint.
A detailed description of this manuscript is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, ii, pp. 462-65.
f. 1*r: Inserted paper leaf. Description in English of the manuscript's contents by Edward O'Reilly.
f. 1*v: Blank.
ff. 1-17v: Life of St Molaisse of Devinish.
f. 17v: A poem beginning 'Imchair let uain an insa'.
ff. 18r-19r: Cíos comaraba Molaise ar Tuaith Rátha. Poem on the tributes due to St Molaisse from Tuath Rátha, the Uí Cathasaigh of Devinsh, and the Uí Mighigein.
ff. 19r-20r: Poem on Molaise coming to Devinish and his reception by Domnall Devenish. Begins 'Cia is fearr cairt ar dháil Mlaissi'.
ff. 20r-v: Poem on the virtues of Molaisse. Begins 'Cia thairngir Mlaissi ria theacht'.
ff. 20v-21r: Poem about how St Molaisse made the Uí Taithlig coarbs of Devenish and the Meehins coarbs of Ballaghmeehin. Begins 'Cinndus fuair Mlaissi in bealach'.
ff. 21r-v: Poem on the tributes to be paid by the Dartraige to the Uí Taithlig and Meehins as coarbs of St Molaisse. Begins 'Stair Molaisse ar Dhartraighib dein'.
ff. 22r-v: Poem on how St Molaisse earned tribute of the Dartriage by saving them from the Buide Chonnaill. Begins 'Molaise eolach na hecna'.
ff. 22v-23v: Hymn with an introduction in prose.
ff. 23v-24r: A hymn in praise of St Molaisse with an introduction in prose.
f. 24r: One quatrain of Dallán's praise of Molaisse with an introduction in prose.
f. 24v: Illegible.
Decoration:
Initials with minor decoration in black and red (ff. 1r, 18r, 19r, 20r, 20v23r). Letters highlighted in red throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002028722
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002028722
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Irish
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 215 x 150mm (written area: 150 x 105mm).
Foliation: ff. 24 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Irish.
Binding: British Museum in-house, brown half-leather. Rebound October 1947.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Ireland (possibly Co. Fermanagh due to the interest in St Molaisse).
Provenance:
Sir William Bentham (b. 1779, d. 1853): Edward O'Reilly's note claims that Sir William Bentham loaned the manuscript to him in 1837 (f. 1*).
Robert Lemon: An addition in pencil on O'Reilly's note claims that the manuscript is the property of Robert Lemon Esq. of Her Majesty's State Paper Office.
Purchased by the British Museum in 1850: 'The MS. was bought for the Museum at a sale at Puttnick and Simpson's, July 3rd, 1850, and Sir Frederick Madden has noted in the Sale Catalogue that it "was claimed by Sir Wm. Betham, but afterwards the claim withdrawn. It really belonged to Mr. Lemon of the State Paper Office"' (Flower, Catalogue, p. 462).
- 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, 262-65.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Molaisse, Saint, Founder of Devenish Monastery in Lough Erne