Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 N 3 Keating, Foras feasa ar Éirinn

  • Irish
  • s. xvii2
  • Irish manuscripts
  • paper

A manuscript of Keating's Foras feasa ar Éirinn.

Identifiers
Shelfmark
24 N 3
Classification
Cat. no. 483
Description

According to Dinneen, “this MS. is very beautifully written. It is accurate, and corresponds closely to R”.(1)n. 1 Patrick S. Dinneen, Foras feasa ar Éirinn: The history of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating D. D. Volume II, containing the first book of the history from sect. XV to the end, vol. 2 (1908): xxx.

Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xvii2
Second half of the 17th century. The transcription of the first book was complete in November 1666.
Origin, provenance
Origin: Ireland
Ireland
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Later provenance: ass. with Hennessy (William M.)
Hennessy (William M.)
(d. 1889)
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Hands, scribes
Codicological information
Material
paper
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

Notes

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, 1294 [id. 483.]
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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June 2012, last updated: December 2022