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Add MS 19995
- Record Id:
- 032-002090243
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002090243
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x0000fb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 19995
- Title:
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Collection of historical, religious and didactic material
- Scope & Content:
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A collection of historical and religious material, primarily composed between 1200-1400.
A detailed description of tis manuscript is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, I, pp. 328-39.
Contents:
f. 1r: Six quatrains on the amount of sleep to which the religious ought to restrict themselves; penitential lament by a sinner. Some text lost due to staining.
f. 1v: Dialogue between Colum Cille, his disciple Dallán Forgaill and St Báithín; two questions on almsgiving addressed to Colum Cille.
f. 2r: Rebuke to one who trespassed on ecclesiastical land; on the benefits brought about by good poets and judges, and the trouble resulting from abuse of their position; penitential lament by Eve.
f. 2v: Pen tests. Legal excerpts. Ink is very faded at the end of each.
f. 3r-v: Advice to a student of law. A number of quatrains wanting or missing entirely due to damage to the leaf. Some pen trials of lines from the poem (f. 3v).
f. 4r-v: Address to Donough Cairbreach and to Murrough mac Brian Dall O'Brien.
f. 4v: On various locations on the Galway-Mayo coast, including Erris, Inisbofin, Doonaderg and others. Some text lost due to fading at the start and end of lines.
f. 5r-v: On the deaths of Donough mac Turlough More O'Brien Lochlainn Riach O'Dea, Hugh Rua O'Dea and Many O'Kelly.
f. 5v-6v: Address to Rolf Mac Mahon.
f. 6v: Address to Art O'Melaghlin of Meath. Imperfect. Lacuna between ff. 6 and 7.
f. 7r: Address to Hugh O'Donnell. Imperfect, the opening quatrains are missing in the manuscript.
f. 7r-v: Poet complaining he has spent three months being buffeted at sea due to bad winds and an incompetent navigator.
f. 7v: First line of a poem on the death of Sir Richard de Burgh, second earl of Ulster.
f. 8r: Poem to Cathal O'Conor by one returning home over the Adriatic Sea.
f. 8v: Poem on the death of Sir Richard de Burgh, second earl of Ulster. Imperfect, text lost due to damage to the fore-edge.
f. 9r-v: Laudatory verses on Sir William Mac Fheorais.
f. 9v: Some pen trials in the main hand and faint scribbling in another hand.
Decoration:
Letters highlighted in red (f. 5r). Large initials.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002090243", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 19995: Collection of historical, religious and didactic material" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002090243
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002090243
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Irish
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 50-165 x 240-305mm (written area 40-135 x 150-265mm; written in double columns demarcated by tildes on ff. 1v, 2r and by a continuous line on f. 8v).
Foliation: ff. 9 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 26 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Irish.
Binding: Post-1600. Black leather with fabric ties at head-edge, fore-edge, and tail-edge; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Ireland.
Written by a single scribe named Fergus, according to the marginal notes.
Provenance:
Acquired by the British Museum on 11 November 1854 from Joseph Lilly and Rodd.
- 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), i, 328-39.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Burgh, Richard, 2nd Earl of Ulster
O'Brian, Donogh, son of Torlogh
O'Kelly, Family