Manuscripts

London, British Library, MS Additional 18747 Irish tales in prose and verse

  • Irish
  • c. 1800
  • Irish manuscripts
  • paper

Miscellany of Irish legendary tales in prose and verse.

Identifiers
Location
Collection: Additional manuscripts
Shelfmark
Additional 18747
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
c. 1800
c. 1800
Origin, provenance
Provenance: Ulster
Ulster/Cúige Uladh
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Ireland
Ireland
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ass. with Poulter (Samuel) [of Carnbeg]Poulter (Samuel) ... of Carnbeg
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Written for Samuel Poulter of Carnbeg, near Dundalk (Co. Louth).
Origin, provenance
Ireland
Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:

The hand is of Patrick Lynch, who transcribed texts from an earlier manuscript written in 1732 by Pádraig Ó Pronntaigh.

Patrick Lynch [d. 1838]Lynch (Patrick) ... d. 1838
(c.1756–1838)
Ó Loingsigh (Pádraig) ... d. 1838
Irish scholar born in Co. Down as the son of a schoolteacher (Terence Lynch); taught Irish at Belfast Academy and published in the Irish-language magazine Bolg an tSoláir. Some of his contributions to scholarship on the Irish language went uncredited.
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Patron
Coulter (Samuel) [of Carnbeg]Coulter (Samuel) ... of Carnbeg
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Codicological information
Material
paper
Dimensions
9.5 ″ × 7.5 ″
Table of contents
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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

Secondary sources (select)

Flower, Robin, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 2, London: British Museum, 1926.
– IIIF Presentation API v2: View in Mirador – IIIF Presentation API v3: View in Mirador
379–383
British Library: archives and manuscripts, Online: British Library. URL: <https://searcharchives.bl.uk>.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
August 2013, last updated: August 2023