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The present classification is only rudimentary. It will ultimately be replaced by a new system with greater care for data concerning each manuscript’s date, origin and provenance.

• Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii. 6. 32 = Book of Deer

Pocket gospel book produced around the tenth century, probably in Scotland; well known for containing additions in Scottish Gaelic (or Middle Irish).

• s. x¹

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 vol. 22, first part: pp. 694–699

Manuscript leaves written by the Scottish Gaelic poet Cathal Mac Muireadhaigh, containing a number of poems

• 1636
• Cathal Mac Muireadhaigh

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 pp. 780–791

Not yet published.

• s. xvii/xviii ?

• Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A.II.10

Not yet published.

• s. vii–xiii

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 18.2.13b = Sprouston breviary

Not yet published.

• s. xiii^ex/xivⁱⁿ

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.1 (1) = 1467 manuscript

• c. 1467
• Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.1 (2) = John Beaton’s Broad Book

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.2

Medical manuscript.

• s. xvi-xvii

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.2

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.2 1, ff. 1-3 = Ranna an aeir

Three leaves containing the text known as Ranna an aeir.

• s. xvi

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.3

Not yet published.

• s. xv

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.4

Not yet published.

• s. xv/xvi

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.5

• s. xv (?)

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.6

• s. xv–xvi

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.7

• s. xv?

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.8

NLS Adv. MS 72.1.8 consists of two sections which were originally separate manuscripts. Both contain vernacular adaptations of classical material: the first section, counting 26 leaves, contians Togail na Tebe; the second (10 leaves) contains parts of the Troy tale.

• s. xiv-xv

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.16

Prose texts and five poems from the Dinnshenchas Érenn.

• s. xv^ex

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.28

• s. xv-xvi

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.31

• s. xv(?)-xvii

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.32 = Leabhar Chille Brighde

A lost manuscript known to have contained a collection of Irish tales. Something about its contents is known because Dr. Donald Smith gave an account that was first published in 1805 and because Ewen M'Lachlan made transcripts in 1812 and 1814.

• s. xv/xvi?
• Fithil mac Flaithrig mic Aodha

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.36

• s. xvii

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.37 = Book of the Dean of Lismore (Leabhar Deathan Lios Mòir)

• s. xvi

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.38

• s. xvii

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.40

• s. xv-xvi

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.42

• s. xvii (?)

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.45

• s. xvi

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