Manuscripts

Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS NKS 268b Duanaire Mhéig Uidhir

  • Irish
  • s. xvi2/xviii
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum + paper
Duanaire (poem-boek) commissioned by Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir, lord of Fermanagh (1566-1589).
Identifiers
Location
Collection: Den nye kongelige samling
Shelfmark
NKS 268b
Title
Duanaire Mhéig Uidhir
Type
duanairí
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xvi2/xviii
16th century, with 18th-century additions
Origin, provenance
Ireland
Hands, scribes
Patron
Mág Uidhir (Cú Chonnacht)
Mág Uidhir (Cú Chonnacht)
(?–1589)
lord of Fermanagh (1566-1589); dedicatee of a poem-boek (Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS NKS 268b).

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Codicological information
Material
vellum + paper
Dimensions
30 cm × 20 cm
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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.] Det Kongelige Bibliotek website, Online: Det Kongelige Bibliotek, ...–present. URL: <http://www.kb.dk>.
Digital images direct link
[ed.] Greene, David, Duanaire Mhéig Uidhir: the poembook of Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir, lord of Fermanagh 1566–1589, edited from the Copenhagen manuscript, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1972. xvi + 291 pp.
Edition

Secondary sources (select)

Stern, Ludwig Christian, “Ueber eine Sammlung irischer Gedichte in Kopenhagen”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 2 (1899): 323–372.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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July 2017, last updated: December 2022