Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.38

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Location Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland

Collection Adv.

Shelfmark 72.1.38

Also classified as Gaelic XXXVIII

Provenance:

Date 17th century

Codicological description:

Material paper manuscript

Dimensions 7.5 inch x 6 inch

Foliation / pagination Pages are numbered from 5 to 193.

Condition The first four pages are missing. Page 5 and 6 are loose fragments (Mackinnon).

Palaeographical description:

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Texts	Section	At	Folios	Pages	Columns	Notes
Oidheadh Chonlaoich
Oidheadh Con Culainn				7-69
Tuilsitir mo derca súain				154

pages	text	additions
5	Fragment, conclusion of Cath Cnucha.	Gaelic note saying the book belongs to Magnus son of Maurice
7-69	Oidheadh Con Culainn, also in Gaelic MSS XLV and LIX
71-114	Cath Mhuighe Macroimhe, a modern version of Cath Maige Mucrama
115-116	Poem, seven quatrains, beginning "Mallacht ort, a cinneamhuin, [etc.]"
116	Notes on words
	Oileamuin Conculainn (The education of Cú Chulainn) ⁊ Oigheadh Chonnlaoich (The violent death of Conlaoch)
140-153	Alphabetically arranged glossary. The legible part of the title heading the glossary on p. 140 refers to Cóir Anmann.
154	Glossed poem, five quatrains long, ascribed to Oisín and beginning ‘Tuilsitir mo derca súain’
155-170	Oidheadh Chloinne Lir, also in Gaelic MS LVI
171	Annalistic entries, six lines. The dates have been erased.
171	Poem (40 quatrains), beginning "Aoibhinn sin, a Eire ard". A longer version is also found also in Gaelic MS XLII.
175-192	Bruighionn Chaorthuinn

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Sources

Secondary sources

Mackinnon, Donald, A descriptive catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, and elsewhere in Scotland, Edinburgh: Brown, 1912. 118, 146—152, 179—180, 206.

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