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Egerton MS 93
- Record Id:
- 032-003797002
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003797002
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100118089206.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 93
- Title:
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The Tripartite Life of St Patrick and two fragments of Ulster Cycle tales (Fled Bricrenn and Táin Bó Cuailnge)
- Scope & Content:
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The Tripartite Life of St Patrick, two fragments of Ulster Cycle Tales and some short religious material.
A detailed description of this manuscript is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, ii, pp. 434-37.Contents:ff. 1r-18v: Vita Tripartita Sancti Patricii. f. 1r is badly stained and mostly illegible, but seems to have begun with 'Populus qui sedebat in tenebris uidit lucem magnam'. f. 1 is followed by f. 1* which is badly damaged, containing only portions of words along the left margin. Lacuna after f. 4.
f. 19r: 'Fáeth fiada', poem attributed to St Patrick; text on Mary revealing the rosary to a devotee; quatrain on the Eucharist; text on St Patrick's first miracle, much of the text is lost due to fading.
f. 19v: Blank.
ff. 20r-25v: Fled Bricrenn ('Bricriu's Feast'). Imperfect at the beginning. The ending is lost due to fading.
ff. 26r-35v: Fragment of Táin Bó Cuailnge (3rd recension). Imperfect at the beginning.
Decoration:
Letters highlighted in red (ff. 5v, 6r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003797002
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003797002
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Irish
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1477
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 15th century-16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 275-280 x 210mm (written area 225-230 x 160-165 [ff. 1r-v, 2r-19r], 210-215 x 150-155 [ff. 20r-25v], 245-255 x 180-195; in two columns at ff. 1r-v, ff. 2r-19r, 26r-35v; single columns at ff. 25v).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 35 (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* is a parchment fragment on a paper guard which follows f. 1.
Script: Irish
Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown leather, tooled in gold with the Bridgewater arms stamped on upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Ireland (Baile in Móinín).
Written partly by Domnall Albannach Ó Troightigh, Irish scribe (fl. 1482), who gives his name, the date 1477 and the location Baile in Mhóinín in a colophon (f. 18v).
Provenance:
James Hardiman, Irish historian and librarian (b. 1782, d. 1855): Hardiman sold his manuscript collection to the British Museum in 1832 in order to fund his research to complete the proof of the Netterville peerage for James Netterville.
Purchased by the British Museum in 1832 from the collection of James Hardiman, Dublin.
- Publications:
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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, 434-37.
Stokes, Whitely, The Tripartite life of Patrick with other Documents Relating to that Saint, 2 vols, (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1887), i, esp. pp. xlv-xlvi.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)