Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1316 Unit: pp. 11-38

  • Irish
  • s. xiv1(?)
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum
Folios which originally belonged to a separate manuscript. These currently form the first section of the second volume of Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1316. Its contents are legal, containing texts from the middle third of the Senchas Már.
Identifiers
Location
Part of
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1316 (H 2. 15a, 1316) [s. xiv]
Type
early Irish legal texts
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xiv1(?)
“prior to the year 1350” (Best and Thurneysen)
Origin, provenance
Ireland
Hands, scribes
Mac Aodhagáin (Aodh)
Mac Aodhagáin (Aodh)
(fl. 1350)
Irish scribe

See more
There is a note by Aodh Mac Aodhagáin on the bottom of p. 36.
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 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

See also the parent manuscript for further references.

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.

Best, R. I., and Rudolf Thurneysen [introduction], Senchas Már: facsimile of the oldest fragments from Ms.H.2.15 in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, Facsimiles in Collotype of Irish Manuscripts, 1, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1931.
Facsimile edition
Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 2, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  
comments: numbered pp. 339–744; diplomatic edition of legal material from: London, British Library, MS Harley 432; Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1316; Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337.
423.1 ff Diplomatic edition

Secondary sources (select)

Abbott, T. K., and E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of the Irish manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co, 1921.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series, 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.  

A companion to D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978). Review article: Neil McLeod, ‘Review,A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici’, Peritia 19 (2005).

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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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September 2013, last updated: August 2023