Manuscripts

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 Unit: section III, (a) ff. 75B-100, (b) ff. 37-44

s. xv
Irish manuscripts
vellum

Part III (ff. 75B-100 + ff. 37-44) of Rawlinson B 512, written by an anonymous scribe

Identifiers

Location

England Oxford, Bodleian Library

Part of

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 [s. xv–xviⁱⁿ]

Provenance and related aspects

Date

s. xv

15th century?

Origin, provenance

Ireland

Hands, scribes

Ó Maoil Chonaire family

Ó Maoil Chonaire family

Important learned family of poets, historians and scribes based in Connacht.

The scribe is anonymous. R. I. Best (1928) suggests that the scribe may have belonged to the Ó Maoil Chonaire family.

Hands indexed:

The scribe is anonymous. R. I. Best (1928) suggests that the scribe may have belonged to the Ó Maoil Chonaire family.

Anonymous [scribe of Rawl. B 512 III]Anonymous ... scribe of Rawl. B 512 III

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Palaeographical information

Ruling

dry-point

Table of contents

Legend

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Locus

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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

(b) ff. 37-44

f. 37r–f. 39r

[Apgitir chrábaid] » "The alphabet of piety"

f. 39r

» Teist Choemáin Chlúana maic Treoin for scoil oc Sinchill Chille Ached (“Coeman of Cluain mace Treoin's testimony as to the young school of Sinchell of Cell Ached”).

f. 39r–f. 40v

» Irish treatise on eight deadly sins and eight chief virtues

f. 40v–f. 41r

[Regula Coluim Cille] » “Rule of St. Columba”

f. 41r

» Three-line paragraph, beginning Cosc mo Colmaócc maic uBéonna dond óclaicg.

f. 41r

» Irish Legend of St. Gregory the Great

f. 41v–f. 42r

» Invocation of Christ, prayers to Mary, John the Child and John the Baptist

f. 42r–f. 42v

» Mugrón comarba Coluim cille (“Mugrón, a successor of St. Columba”)

f. 42v–f. 44r

[Na arrada] » Na arrada (“The remissions”), including the Old Irish table of penitential commutations below.

f. 42v–f. 43v

↳ [Old Irish Table of Penitential Commutations]

f. 44r–f. 44v

» Irish Vision of Laisrén of Cluain (Connacht)

f. 44v

» Note on churches of Munster

(a) ff. 75B-100

f. 76r–f. 97v

[Lebor gabála Érenn] » “Book of the takings of Ireland”, including Flathiusa hErend. Cf. f. 100v, where Lebor gabála Glind Dá Locha is acknowledged as the source for this copy.

↳ » Flathiusa hErend

f. 97v

» Note on Ireland's resemblance to Paradise, beginning Inis hErenn, tra, ro-suidigad isin fuined.

f. 97va^line 24

» Incipit: ‘ISi an cet breth rucad ind Erind’ » Triad on the first three judgments in Ireland

f. 97vb^line 1–f. 98vb

[Scél Tuáin meic Cairill do Finnen Maige Bile] » “The story of Tuan mac Cairill by Finnian of Mag Bile”

f. 98vb^line 1–f. 98vb^line 20

[Tuán mac Cairill ro clos] » Incipit: ‘Tuan mac Cairill roclas’ » Poem (7 stanzas) about Tuan mac Cairill. For the first seven lines (of the left column), this column is empty.

f. 98vb^line 21–f. 98vb^line 23

[Dia ro-rannta cóicid Érenn] » Incipit: ‘Dia rorannta .u.id Erenn’ » Quatrain, beginning Dia rorannta cóicid Erenn.

f. 98vb^line 24–f. 98vb^line 32

[Atberim frib lith saine] » Incipit: ‘Atberim frib lith ngaili’ » Four quatrains about Beltaine, Lugnasad, Samain and Imbolc

f. 99r–f. 100v

[Scéla Alexandir maic Pilip] » Episodes from the Irish Alexander saga.

f. 100v

[Compert Conchobuir] » Story of Ness daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide

f. 100v

» Out of place scribal note to Lebor gabála Érenn

scribal addition x

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Irish manuscripts

Sources

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Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] Oxford Digital Library, Early manuscripts at Oxford University, Online: University of Oxford, 2001–present. URL: <http://image.ox.ac.uk>.

[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>

LGÉ.

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Cuív, Brian, Catalogue of Irish language manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford college libraries. Part 1: Descriptions, Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, DIAS, 2001.

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

comments: The second part is Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II”, Ériu 39 (1988).

Best, Richard Irvine, “Notes on Rawlinson B. 512”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 17 (1928): 389–402.