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Lebor gabála Érenn, miniugud redaction‘The book of the taking of Ireland’

Middle Irish, Early Modern Irish
Cycles of the Kings, Irish legendary history, Lebor gabála Érenn, Mythological Cycle

An abbreviated recension of Lebor gabála Érenn, known as the Miniugud recension. In the manuscripts, it is usually found as an appendix to Recension II.

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Manuscripts

In association with Recension II

R =
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 III, (a) ff. 75B-100, (b) ff. 37-44 [s. xv]
ff. 90v–97r

Macalister's siglum μR.
Y =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D v 1 (537) [s. xiv (?)]

A manuscript that is thought to belong originally to the Yellow Book of Lecan, where the text would have followed Recension II. Miniugud covers the entire volume. Macalister's siglum μY.
Lec or L (Scowcroft) =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan [s. xvⁱⁿ]
ff. 16v–21 (facsimile)

Incomplete. Macalister's siglum μΛ.

Independent copy

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502 2 = Lebar Glinne Dá Locha (?) [1125 x 1150]
pp. 135a.1–136b.34 (facsimile)

Fragment: §§ 525-561.

Language

Middle Irish Early Modern Irish
Middle Irish/Early Modern Irish.

Associated items

Cimbáeth no chinned cech cáin, Failet sunna eter dá fhert, Góedel Glas ó tát Goídil, Mac Echach ard orddan, Ríg hÉrenn iar creitim (Míniugud king-list)

Classification

Cycles of the Kings Irish legendary history Lebor gabála Érenn Mythological Cycle

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Macalister, R. A. S., Lebor gabála Érenn: The book of the taking of Ireland, 5 vols, Irish Texts Society 34–35–39–41–44, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1932–1942.

Internet Archive – Vol. 1 (1938 ed.): <link> Internet Archive – Vol. 2 (1939 ed.): <link> Internet Archive – Vol. 3 (1940 ed.): <link> Internet Archive – Vol. 4 (1941 ed.): <link> Internet Archive – Vol. 5 (1956 ed.): <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Carey, John [ed.], Lebor gabála Érenn: textual history and pseudohistory, Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series 20, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 2009.

Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part I: the growth of the text”, Ériu 38 (1987): 79–140.

comments: The second part is Scowcroft, R. M., “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II: the growth of the tradition”, Ériu 39 (1988).

Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II: the growth of the tradition”, Ériu 39 (1988): 1–66.

comments: This article continues Scowcroft, R. M., “Leabhar Gabhála. Part I: the growth of the text”, Ériu 38 (1987).

Hamel, A. G. van, “On Lebor Gabála”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 10 (1915): 97–197.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

O'Brien, M. A. [ed.], Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1962.

comments: Reprinted in 1976 and 2005, with an introduction by J. V. Kelleher.

CELT – pp. 1–332 (Rawl. B 502): <link>

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