Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1298 Unit: 1-238Genealogy and verse

  • Irish
  • s. xiv ?
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum
Identifiers
Location
Part of
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1298 (H 2. 7, 1298) [s. xv]
Type
manuscript miscellanies Irish genealogies vernacular Irish verse
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xiv ?
14th century (?).
Origin, provenance
Origin: The folios originally formed a distinct manuscript. John O'Donovan suggested that they represent a fragment of the late 14th-century Book of Uí Maine (RIA MS D ii 1).(3)n. 3 John O'Donovan, The tribes and customs of Hy-Many, commonly called O'Kelly's Country (1843); T. K. Abbott • E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish MSS in TCD (1921): 78–79. This hypothesis, however, has since been questioned and discredited.(4)n. 4 T. K. Abbott • E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish MSS in TCD (1921): 337; John Bannerman, Studies in the history of Dalriada (1974).
Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:
Main hand (Lúcás Ó Dalláin)

Gwynn states that this part of the manuscript is largely the work of one scribe, probably Lúcás Ó Dalláin, whose name occurs on p. 196b (sup. marg.) and col. 222.

Lúcás Ó DalláinÓ Dalláin (Lúcás)
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Hand of note (col. 33)

Additions include a note by Seán mac Torna in col. 33.

Seán mac TornaSeán mac Torna
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Two later hands (p. 189)

Material is supplied by two later hands (unidentified) on p. 189.

Late hand(s) (pp. 195, 227)

There are additions by a late hand on p. 195; and again, p. 227.

Codicological information
Material
vellum
Table of contents
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Sources

Notes

John O'Donovan, The tribes and customs of Hy-Many, commonly called O'Kelly's Country (1843); T. K. Abbott • E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish MSS in TCD (1921): 78–79.
T. K. Abbott • E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish MSS in TCD (1921): 337; John Bannerman, Studies in the history of Dalriada (1974).
John O'Donovan, The tribes and customs of Hy-Many, commonly called O'Kelly's Country (1843); T. K. Abbott • E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish MSS in TCD (1921): 78–79.
T. K. Abbott • E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish MSS in TCD (1921): 337; John Bannerman, Studies in the history of Dalriada (1974).
See also the parent manuscript for further references.

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Muraíle, Nollaig, “The Irish genealogies as an onomastic source”, Nomina 16 (1992–1993): 23–47.
Ó Muraíle, Nollaig, “Aois na lámhscríbhinní móra”, The Maynooth Review 9 (1983): 49–72.
esp. 55–56
Bannerman, John, Studies in the history of Dalriada, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1974.
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>
OʼDonovan, John, The tribes and customs of Hy-Many, commonly called O'Kelly's Country, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1843.
CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link>, <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: View in Mirador
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