Manuscripts
f. 19ra.1–f. 39ra.48
[Saltair na rann] Heading/rubric: ‘S[altair] na rann inso sis do-rigni Oengus celi De’Incipit: ‘Mo rise ri nime nair’
Middle Irish verse composition on biblical history, divided into 150 poems or cantos.
f. 39ra.49–f. 39ra.51
[Saltair na rann] (section)Incipit: ‘Conice in so corp saltrach na rann’
Colophon for Saltair na rann: “Conice in so corp saltrach na rann .i. na tri coicait duan. A do autem post fri fois[itin] ⁊ fri athirgi. ocus a deich fri h-aisneis na h-eisseirgi conid da duain dec ar trib coictaib duan samlaid” (text taken, with slight modifications, from Ó Cuív and Whitley Stokes, Saltair na rann: a collection of early Middle Irish poems (1883): 114).
f. 39rb–f. 39va
Two devotional poems added to Saltair na rann: (a) beg. Isam aithrech febda fecht (9qq) and (b) beg. Nimtha saegid for dia ndron (58qq).
f. 39vb–f. 40vb
Heading/rubric: ‘Dech duán na h-eisseirge in so’
‘Ten songs of the Resurrection’, further poems added to Saltair na rann.
f. 40vb.16–f. 44r
f. 45r
[Rofessa i curp domuin dúir] Incipit: ‘Ro fessa hi curp domuin dúir’
Poem ascribed to Mac Cosse
f. 46r
Poem beg. Fichi rig cia rim as ferr
f. 46r
[A Dé dúlig, atat-teoch] Incipit: ‘A Dé dúlig adateoch / Cethrur do-raega ní dalb’
Religious poem
f. 46vb.1–f. 46vb
[Cenn ard Adaim étrocht rád] Incipit: ‘Cenn ard Ádaim étrocht rád’
Poem.
f. 46vb–f. 46vb
f. 46vb–f. 46vb
Incipit: ‘Ad fet Augustus míl do bith i fudumnaib in mara ⁊ in talman Indecdai’
Note on monster in India
f. 47r(81)a–f. 47r(81)b
f. 47v(82)a–f. 47v(82)b
f. 47v(82)b–f. 50v
[Laídshenchas Laigen] Heading/rubric: ‘Laidsenchas Lagen’
Collection of verse relating to the history of Leinster
f. 47vb–f. 47vb
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Is mo chen a Labraid lain’
[Poem 1] Poem in the form of a dialogue between Scoriath, Labraid Loingsech and Moriath
f. 47vb–f. 47vb
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Cethri m. Airtt Mis Telmann’
[Poem 2]
f. 47vb–f. 47vb
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Ochtur Criathar cid dia ta’
[Poem 3]
f. 47v(82)b–f. 48r(83)a
f. 48r
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Coic rig trichat do Laignib’
[Poem 5] Poem on kings of Leinster who ruled early Ireland
f. 48r
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Secht rig do Laignib na lerg’
[Poem 6] Poem on further kings of Leinster
f. 48r
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Dia ngaba apgitir Lagen’
[Poem 7] Poem on Leinster warriors
f. 48r
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Fedeilmid athair Echach’
[Poem 8] Poem on a battle fought by the Fothairt against the men of Munster
f. 48r(83)b–f. 48v(84)
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Fothairt for clannaib Concorb’
[Poem 9] Poem on expulsion of the Fothairt from Tara.
f. 48v(84)
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Clanna Bresail Bricc builid’
[Poem 10] Poem on Leinster dynasties
f. 48v(84)
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Coic rig trichat triallsat roe’
[Poem 11] Poem on Christian kings of Leinster
f. 49r(85)–f. 50v(?)
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Crimthann clothri coicid hErenn’
[Poem 12] Poem attributed to Dubthach hua Lugair
f. 49v
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Ro batar laeich do Laigneib’
[Poem 13] Poem on the birth of Brandub mac Echach, king of Leinster, and Áedán mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riada. Cf. 47r
f. 50r(87)a–f. 50v(88)a
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘Cathair cenn coicid Banba’
[Poem 14], the metrical Esnada Tige Buchet ("The Songs of Buchet's House"). Cf. f. 73.
f. 50v(88)a
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Heading/rubric: ‘Do chomramaib Laigen’Incipit: ‘Eol dam i ndairib dréchta’
[Poem 15] Poem ascribed to Flann mac Máel Máedóc
f. 50v(88)
[Laídshenchas Laigen] (section)Incipit: ‘A choicid choem Chairpri chruaid’
[Poem 16]
A chasm in the MS: one or multiple leaves missing between f. 50 and f. 51.
f. 52v
Alphabetically arranged list of saints bearing the same name
f. 54r–f. 59v
‘A poem/song for Colum Cille’: the poem ascribed to Dallán Forgaill, with extensive commentary.
f. 59v
Heading/rubric: ‘Adomnan mac Ronain ro cháchain in nothainseo’Incipit: ‘Colum Cilli co Dia dommerail i tias nimustias’
Prayer
f. 59v
Incipit: ‘Dia ard árlethar’
Poem attributed to Columba
f. 59vb.42
No title in the manuscript; includes the poem beginning Fuit co bráth.
f. 60r
Incipit: ‘Cainnech do rigni in northainse’
Poem
f. 60r(107)b–f. 62v(112)b
"The colloquy of the two sages"
f. 62v
‘The false judgments of Caratnia’
f. 63v
‘The five paths of judgment’