Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48a Liber Flavus Fergusiorum, part 1

c. 1435-1440
Irish manuscripts
vellum

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, Royal Irish Academy

Shelfmark

23 O 48 (a)

Title

Liber Flavus Fergusiorum, part 1

> named after John Fergus

Description

First part of the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. For the second part, see Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48b.

Provenance and related aspects

Date

c. 1435-1440

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Table of contents

Legend

Texts

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Locus

While it is not a reality yet, CODECS seeks consistency in formatting references to locations of texts and other items of interest in manuscripts. Our preferences may be best explained with some examples:

f. 23ra.34: meaning folio 23 recto, first column, line 34
f. 96vb.m: meaning folio 96, verso, second column, middle of the page (s = top, m = middle, i = bottom)
- Note that marg. = marginalia, while m = middle.
p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23

The folio numbering is based on Caoimhín Breatnach, ‘Manuscript abbreviations and other scribal features in the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum’, Ériu 61 (2011)

f. 1ra^line 1–f. 2rb^line 9

[Inventio Sanctae Crucis] » Story of the invention of the Cross

f. 2rb^line 10–f. 10rb^line 27

[Stair Fortibrais] » MS heading: ‘Sdair Serluis Moir’ » Early Modern Irish story of Fierabras

f. 10rb^line 28–f. 10va^line 8

[Scéla Siluester ocus Constantin (miracle)] » Incipit: ‘Rig rogabh an doman feacht n-aill’ » Middle Irish story of Constantine the Great and his miraculous cure

f. 10va^line 9–f. 10va^line 37

» Short text on the four kinds of wood used to make the Cross

f. 11vb^line 36–f. 12ra^line 9

» Text on the 17 wonders that occurred on the night of Christ’s birth

f. 11rb^line 46–f. 11vb^line 10

» Story of Máel Suthain Ó Cearbhaill

f. 12ra^line 10–f. 12rb^line 10

» Fifteen signs of Doomsday

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.

Irish manuscripts

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.] “Royal Irish Academy”, Anne-Marie OʼBrien, 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: <https://www.isos.dias.ie/collection/ria.html>.

direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Mulchrone, Kathleen, Thomas F. OʼRahilly, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, and A. I. Pearson, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, 8 vols, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1926–1970.

8 volumes: Vol. 1, pp. 1–654 (fasc. 1-5) -- Vol. 2, pp. 655–1294 (fasc. 6-10) -- Vol. 3, pp. 1295–1938 (fasc. 11-15) -- Vol. 4, pp. 1939–2578 (fasc. 16-20) -- Vol. 5, pp. 2579–3220 (fasc. 21-25) -- Vol. 6, pp. 3221–3500 (fasc. 26-27) -- Vol. 7 (index 1) -- Vol. 8 (index 2).

Vol. 2, 1254–1273 [id. 476.]

Breatnach, Caoimhín, “Manuscript abbreviations and other scribal features in the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum”, Ériu 61 (2011): 95–163.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of manuscript abbreviations and other scribal features in a section comprising twenty-four folios of the important fifteenth-century manuscript now known as the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum (RIA MS 476 (23 O 48)). Some issues with regard to the expansion of manuscript abbreviations will also be discussed, and it will be seen that several abbreviations serve many more functions than their original ones.

Herbert, Máire, “Medieval collections of ecclesiastical and devotional materials: Leabhar Breac, Liber Flavus Fergusiorum and the Book of Fenagh”, in: Bernadette Cunningham, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, and Petra Schnabel (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009. 33–43.

Gwynn, Edward J., “The manuscript known as the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26 C:2 (1906–1907): 15–41.

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