Manuscripts
Incomplete.
f. [i]r–
illustr.
Flyleaf which includes scribblings and a drawing of Noah’s Ark.
f. 2ra–
Begins imperfect.
f. 2v
f. 4rb.13–
[Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim (Dublittir Úa hUathgaile)]
Incipit: ‘Reidhigh damh a De do nimhe’
Poem (94 qq), with an attribution to úa hUathgaille in the final quatrain (Is mé dond cuachmuighi on chill / o hUathgaili a Uisinglind).
f. 5ra.m = p. 9a
[Prima etas mundi (Irish tract)]
Incipit: ‘Prima etas mundi .i. in ced ais don doman’
Tract on the first five Ages of the World, and synchronisms.
f. 5va.i–
[Assia ingen Neir (Irish tract)]
Incipit: ‘Assia ingen Neir ⁊ na baindia dianaid ainm Doridis ...’
Irish tract on the names of the continents (Asia, Africa and Europe) and further aetiological lore.
f. 5vb.9
Heading/rubric: ‘Genelach Ioseph annso sis’
Genealogy of Joseph. At this point, the second column becomes subdivided into a narrower column for the genealogy and a broader one for the Latin account below, beg. Ab Adam usque ad diliuuium.
f. 5vb–
[Ab Adam usque ad diluuium (Irish tract)]
Incipit: ‘Ab Adam usque ad diluuium’
Brief Latin account of the ages of the world.
f. 5vb.inf = p. 10b.inf
[Se bliadna .l. malle ]
Incipit: ‘Se bliadhna .l. malle’
Poem (7 qq).
f. 6ra.1–
[Adam primus pater (Irish tract)]
Heading/rubric: ‘Leabhar Comhaimsireachda Flainn Mainistreach’Incipit: ‘Adam primus pater fuit’
Irish synchronistic tract. The title supplied, Leabhar Comhaimsireachda Flainn Mainistreach, is in a late hand which has been identified as that of Charles O'Conor.
f. 7rb.m–
Poem (21 qq).
f. 7va.7
[Tre-gort crand / tre-crand cú]
Incipit: ‘Tre gort crann tre crann cu’
Brief item on relative measurements of life-spans and other durations. Cf. NLI G 3.
f. 7va
[Irish note on relative measurements of time]
Incipit: ‘Teora ceandadacha deg, ⁊ .cccc. ar .iiii. milib’
A note on relative time measurements. Cf. NLI G 3.
f. 7va
[Irish note on relative measurements of space (Trigraindi anorlach ...)]
Incipit: ‘Trigrainni anorrlach’
Cf. NLI G 3.
f. 7va.inf–
[Irish account of the Tower of Babel]
Incipit: ‘In tan ro mebadar na .iiii. airdarci i n-Erenn i n-aimsir Partaloin’
A brief account of the Tower of Babel. Cf. the account in Auraicept na n-éces.
f. 7vb
[Irish note on the twelve apostles (Christus dub dond a folt)]
Incipit: ‘Xristus dub dond a folt’
f. 7vb
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.Incipit: ‘Aurelianus papa ase doroinde cathair easgoib ar tus’
Note on certain developments in liturgical ceremonies and the early popes who instituted them. Cf. the version in NLI G 1200.
f. 7vb
Note in the hand of Charles O'Conor of Belanagare, transcribed by Ó hUiginn (2018) as follows: An Leabhar so (e derlíonta do firinde ⁊ do fhaible file) anos a sheailbh Chathail Óig Ui Chonchabhair a Ath na gcárr, 1777 and continued in the RIA catalogue, et a íasacht aige on Ridire mhaith Tomas Ua Gormáin, o Bhurgoghne isin Ffrainc.
