Chatsworth (Derbyshire), Book of Lismore

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Location Chatsworth (Derbyshire). In private hands
Title Book of Lismore, also The Book of Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach (Leabhar Mhic Cárthaigh Riabhaigh)
Provenance:
Date 15th century
Patron Patrons include Fínghin Mac Carthaigh Riabhach of Cairbre (Co. Cork) and his wife Caitilín[1]
Later history Discovered in Lismore Castle (Co. Waterford) in 1814 and re-assembled sometime after 1856.[1]
Codicological description:
Material Vellum manuscript
Foliation / pagination 198 folios
Palaeographical description:
Layout two columns, except on f. 116r
Contents:
Copies Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 6

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Texts Section At Folios Pages Columns Notes
Acallam na Senórach 159-197 Ten fragments.
Acallam Bec 152a 1-158b followed by note on the Five Hostels of Ireland
Acallam Bec 92b1-92b2 Fragment.
Aided Bresail meic Diarmata 94b 1 ?
Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill II
Áirem muintire Finn 193va-193vb (151va-151vb in earlier foliation).
Airne Fíngein 138a line 1 - 139d line 33.
Apgitir Chrábaid 81v
Bethu Phátraic
Bruiden Meic Da Réo 184ra–184va
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Description

Table of contents

Under-construction.png Under construction
  • The foliation as it exists today
  • The earlier foliation by R attempts to reconstruct the original foliation before the loss of folios. This is the foliation followed by Macalister in his facsimile edition.
folios (old) folios (present) texts additions
1, 3-6 75b (formerly 76), 76b, 77-79
14-27, 29 83-97
8-11 86a, 80-82
69va Sgél an da leanabh
70ra-78vb Stair na Lumbardach
79ra-89vb Leabhar Ser Marco Polo
90ra-92rb 132ra-134rb Suidiugud Tellaig Temra
92rb Ten lines of prose about Cenn Fáelad, beginning ‘Heriu cia gabhat’
92va-92vb Acallam Bec
93a1- 'Aed Baclam ....'
94rb
96ra-97vb 138ra-139vb (ends on line 33) Airne Fíngein
98ra-104v2 Lebor na Cert
121ra-123rb 163ra-165rb Cath Crinna
151va-151vb 193va-193vb Áirem muintire Finn
152ra-158v Acallam Bec
158vb Note on the five hostels of Ireland
159ra-197vb Acallam na Senórach

Notes

  1. ^ a b Ó Cuív, "Observations on the Book of Lismore"

Sources

Editions

Open book nae 02.png Macalister, R. A. S., The Book of Mac Carthaigh Riabhach, otherwise the Book of Lismore, Facsimiles in Collotype of Irish Manuscripts 5, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1950. Facsimile edition, with introduction and indices.

Secondary sources

Open book nae 02.png Breatnach, Caoimhín, “Lismore, Book of”, in: Duffy, Seán (ed.), Medieval Ireland: an encyclopedia, New York and London: Routledge, 2005. 279—280.
Open book nae 02.png Ó Cuív, Brian, “Observations on the Book of Lismore”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 83 C (1983): 269—292.
Open book nae 02.png Stokes, Whitley (ed. and tr.), Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore, Anecdota Oxoniensia. Mediaeval and Modern Series 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890. Internet Archive

External links

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