Manuscripts
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Early seventeenth-century Irish poem-book, thought to have been compiled on behalf of Nualaidh, daughter of Aodh mac Maghnusa Uí Dhomhnaill.

  • s. xvii1
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 144

Two flyleaves from an Irish manuscript, probably of the 12th century, containing a copy of Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae. The fragment preserved is from Book 2 of that text.

  • s. xii

Welsh law-book, Tr of the Blegywryd redaction of the Welsh laws (Cyfraith Hywel)

  • s. xivin
  • Gwilym Was Da

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

  • s. x1
Not yet published.

Composite work consisting of an early 9th-century Mercian prayerbook and two accretions of later date.

  • s. xiii/xiv + s. ixin + s. xivex/xvin

Southumbrian, probably Mercian liturgical manuscript of the early 9th century containing extracts from the four Gospels, a collection of hymns and prayers, and an abbreviated Psalter. It is introduced by an Old English exhortation to prayer and concludes with a dramatic piece about the Harrowing of Hell. Signs of Irish influence in the style and contents of the manuscript have led scholars to regard the Book of Cerne as a witness to a shared Hiberno-Saxon monastic culture, although some of the details are disputed.

  • s. ix1

Manuscript known best as the Book of Aneirin (Llyfr Aneirin), containing the heroic poem Y Gododdin and a number of gorchanau.

  • s. xiii2

Paper manuscript containing an extensive anthology of Irish bardic verse.

  • s. xvii
  • Aodh Ó Dochartaigh
Not yet published.

An Irish manuscript now lost but named in a note of correspondence from one scribe or compiler to another in the Book of Leinster. In this note, Find, who has been identified as bishop of Kildare, addresses Áed Úa Crimthainn, abbot and coarb of Terryglass, and requests from him the ‘poem-book (dúanaire) of Mac Lonáin’, probably referring to the poet Flann mac Lónáin (d. 891 x 918), “so that we may study the meanings (cíalla) of the poems that are in it”.

  • 9th/early 10th century?
Not yet published.
  • s. xvi

Manuscript miscellany which originally belonged to a larger codex, together with NLI MS G 2.

  • s. xiv-xv
  • Ádam Ó Cianáin
  • s. xivex
  • Tomás Cam Mac Fir Bhisigh, Áedh Óg [YBL scribe]

Transcripts from the Book of Fermoy (Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29).

  • s. xix
  • Barry O'Rafferty, Edward O'Reilly
Not yet published.

Ó Cléirigh’s Book of genealogies, transcribed from RIA MS 23 D 17 by Seán Ó Cléirigh.

  • c.1823
  • Seán Ó Cléirigh [d. 1846], William Betham
Not yet published.

Manuscript containing prose tales copied from the Book of Lismore by Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin and his son Pól.

  • 1820
  • Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin, Pól Ó Longáin
Not yet published.
  • s. xix
  • Eugene O'Curry