Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 26 Book of Fenagh (Leabhar Fidnacha)

  • Irish
  • 1516
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum
Identifiers
Shelfmark
23 P 26
Classification
Cat. no. 479
Title
Book of Fenagh (Leabhar Fidnacha)
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
1516
1516.
Hands, scribes
Ó Maoil Chonaire (Muirgheas mac Pháidín)
Ó Maoil Chonaire (Muirgheas mac Pháidín)
(d. 1543)
Muirgheas mac Pháidín Uí Maoil Chonaire, of Cluain Plocáin, scribe and compiler of the Book of Fenagh (RIA MS 23 P 26).

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Muirghes Ó Máel Chonaire
Codicological information
Material
vellum
Dimensions
30 cm × 23 cm
Palaeographical information
Layout
41 folios
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.] “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>.
[ed.] Hennessy, W. M. [ed.], and D. H. Kelly [tr.], The Book of Fenagh in Irish and English, Dublin: Alexander Thom, 1875.
Internet Archive: <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, fasc. 10: 1284–1286 [id. 479.]
Macalister, R. A. S. [ed.], The Book of Fenagh: a supplementary volume, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1939.
Irishmanuscripts.ie: <link>

External links

Authority records
Librart of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF)
‘Royal Irish Academy. Library. Manuscript. 23 P 26’ (id. no2017051904)
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
October 2010, last updated: November 2022