Manuscripts

Castlerea, Clonalis House, Book of O'Conor Don Book of O'Conor Don

  • s. xvii
  • Irish manuscripts
  • paper
Paper manuscript containing an extensive anthology of Irish bardic verse.
Identifiers
Title
Book of O'Conor Don
Provenance and related aspects
Date
s. xvii
17th century
Hands, scribes
Ó Dochartaigh (Aodh)
Ó Dochartaigh (Aodh)
(fl. 17th century, first half)
Irish soldier and scribe. His patron was Capt. Somhairle Mac Domhnaill for whom he compiled two volumes of Irish verse, namely volume b of UCD Franciscan MS A 20 (Duanaire Finn) and the Book of the O'Conor Don.

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Hands indexed:
Aodh Ó DochartaighÓ Dochartaigh (Aodh)
(fl. 17th century, first half)
Doharty (Don Hugo)
Irish soldier and scribe. His patron was Capt. Somhairle Mac Domhnaill for whom he compiled two volumes of Irish verse, namely volume b of UCD Franciscan MS A 20 (Duanaire Finn) and the Book of the O'Conor Don.
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Patron
Mac Domhnaill (Somhairle)
Mac Domhnaill (Somhairle)
(c. 1586–1632)
(Captain) Somhairle Mac Domhnaill, soldier who belonged to Clann Dhomhnaill of Co. Antrim; ended up in Flanders in 1616 to join the Irish regiment of the Spanish army; a patron who commissioned the compilation of Irish manuscripts.

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Codicological information
Material
paper
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] OʼBrien, Anne-Marie, and Pádraig Ó Macháin, Irish Script on Screen (ISOS) – Meamrám Páipéar Ríomhaire, Online: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1999–present. URL: <http://www.isos.dias.ie>.
[‘Book of the O'Conor Don’] direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Macháin, Pádraig, “An introduction to the Book of the O'Conor Don”, in: Pádraig Ó Macháin (ed.), The Book of the O'Conor Don: essays on an Irish manuscript, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2010. 1–31.
Simms, Katharine, “The selection of poems for inclusion in the Book of the O'Conor Don”, in: Pádraig Ó Macháin (ed.), The Book of the O'Conor Don: essays on an Irish manuscript, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2010. 32–60.
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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April 2011, last updated: November 2022