Manuscripts

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5301-5320 Historical works

Irish
s. xvii
Irish manuscripts
paper

Historical works.

Identifiers

Location

Belgium Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique

Shelfmark

5301-5320

Classification

Cat. no. 4641

Type

Irish annals

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xvii

17th century

Origin, provenance

Later provenance: ass. with Mac Donnell (Charles P.)

Mac Donnell (Charles P.)

Irish scholar who has been identified as a “a member of the Royal Irish Academy [since 1847], the Irish Archæological Society, and the Celtic Society; from 1850 onwards he appears in Dublin directories as Pursuivant at Arms in Dublin Castle”.

See more Reeves (William)

Reeves (William)

(1815–1892)

Irish antiquarian scholar; bishop of the Anglican see of Down, Connor and Dromore; keeper of the Armagh Public Library

See more In 1851, Charles P. Mac Donnell, Esq., made copies of two accounts by Edmund MacCana at the behest of bishop William Reeves. Reeves later published a translation of one text (1854) and a transcription of the other (1864).

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

Material

paper

Dimensions

20.5 cm × 13.5 cm

c.20.5×13.5 cm (Mc Carthy and Jaski).

Binding

Modern bookbinding (parchment)

Distinct units

pp. 97-162

Brussels, Bibliothèque Ro… pp. 97-162 [s. xvii]

Manuscript containing the Annals of Roscrea.

Table of contents

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Irish manuscripts

Sources

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.] “Royal Library of Belgium”, Anne-Marie OʼBrien, and Pádraig Ó Macháin, Irish Script on Screen (ISOS) – Meamrám Páipéar Ríomhaire, Online: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2019–present. URL: <https://www.isos.dias.ie/collection/rlb.html>.

[dig. img.] Belgica, Online: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 2012–present. URL: <http://belgica.kbr.be>.

direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Jaski, Bart, and Daniel Mc Carthy, A facsimile edition of the Annals of Roscrea, Online: School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, 2011–. Word 97 document. URL: <http://www.scss.tcd.ie/misc/kronos/editions/AR_portal.htm>.

abstract:

The Irish chronicle known to modern scholarship as the ‘Annals of Roscrea’ is found only in the manuscript Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale 5301-20 pp. 97−161. It was first registered in print in the comprehensive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Burgundian Library at Brussels published in 1842, and an edition was published by Dermot Gleeson and Seán Mac Airt in 1959. Recent research has shown that the principal scribe, the Franciscan friar Fr Brendan O’Conor, transcribed his source, ‘mutila Historia D. Cantwelij’, in two successive phases and then in a third phase it was annotated and indexed by his fellow Franciscan Fr Thomas O’Sheerin. This research has also shown that the edition of Gleeson and Mac Airt is incomplete, having omitted the pre-Patrician section of the chronicle. Hence this, the first full edition of the work, has been prepared in facsimile form so as to make clear the successive phases of compilation of the text, to provide an accurate account of its orthography, to identify the relationship of its entries to those of other chronicles, and to furnish an AD chronology consistent with the other Clonmacnoise group chronicles.

comments: 1. A 30-page introduction describing the only manuscript of the Annals of Roscrea, namely [[Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5301-5320

|Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale 5301-20]], followed by an account of the principles used in the compilation of the facsimile edition.

2. The facsimile edition formatted as a 65-page A4 document, representing a page-by-page facsimile of the 65 pages of MS Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale 5301-20, pp. 97-161.

Van den Gheyn, Joseph, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, 13 vols, vol. 7: Histoire des pays: Allemagne, Angleterre, Autriche, Belgique (histoire générale), Brussels: Lambertin, 1907.

Belgica: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

48–50 [‘4641’] direct link

Radner, Joan N. [ed. and tr.], Fragmentary annals of Ireland, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.

CELT – edition (2–182),: <link> CELT – translation (3–183): <link> CELT – introduction (vii–ix): <link>

vii–ix.