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Gabháltus Séarluis Mhóir ‘Charlemagne's conquest’

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Medieval Irish literary adaptations
Manuscripts
Cork, University College, Book of Lismore = Book of Lismore (Leabhar Leasa Móir) [s. xv]
ff. 96ra–109ra
Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 9 [s. xv (?)]
ff. 1–8vb pp. 1–16
London, British Library, MS Egerton 1781 [c. 1484-1487]
ff. 20ra–36va
London, British Library, MS Egerton 92 = Book of Fermoy fragment [s. xv]
ff. 15ra–16rb
Fragment
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1304 (H 2. 12, no. 3) [1475]
Fragment.
Dublin, King's Inns, MS 10 [s. xv]
ff. 9r–9v, 10, 58
Fragment. Different version, which includes Turpin's letter to Leoprandus. Some leaves are lost between f. 9 and f. 10.
Cf. different version:
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.6 3, ff. 12-13 [s. xv/xvi]
ff. 12ra–13ra (line 18)
Language
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
Date
"The translation may have been made about 1400" (Hyde).(1)n. 1 Douglas Hyde, Gabhaltais Shearluis Mhóir: The conquests of Charlemagne [edited from the Book of Lismore and three other vellum MSS] (1917): xiii.

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Sources

Notes

1.
Douglas Hyde, Gabhaltais Shearluis Mhóir: The conquests of Charlemagne [edited from the Book of Lismore and three other vellum MSS] (1917): xiii.

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[ed.] Hyde, Douglas [ed.], Gabhaltais Shearluis Mhóir: The conquests of Charlemagne [edited from the Book of Lismore and three other vellum MSS], Irish Texts Society, 19, London: Irish Texts Society, 1917.
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Part of the fragment from King's Inns MS 10 is appended on pp. 122-123.
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
April 2012, last updated: January 2024
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