Manuscripts
Castlerea, Clonalis House, Book of O'Conor Don Book of O’Conor Don (Leabhar Uí Chonchubhair Dhoinn)
- Irish
- s. xvii
- Irish manuscripts
- paper
Paper manuscript containing an extensive anthology of Irish bardic verse.
Identifiers
Location
Ireland Castlerea, Clonalis House
Title
Book of O’Conor Don (Leabhar Uí Chonchubhair Dhoinn)
Type
duanairí
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xvii
17th century
Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:
Aodh Ó DochartaighÓ Dochartaigh (Aodh)
(fl. 17th century, first half)
Doharty (Don Hugo)
Irish soldier and scribe. His patron was Capt. Somhairle Mac Domhnaill for whom he compiled two volumes of Irish verse, namely volume b of UCD Franciscan MS A 20 (Duanaire Finn) and the Book of the O'Conor Don.
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(fl. 17th century, first half)
Doharty (Don Hugo)
Irish soldier and scribe. His patron was Capt. Somhairle Mac Domhnaill for whom he compiled two volumes of Irish verse, namely volume b of UCD Franciscan MS A 20 (Duanaire Finn) and the Book of the O'Conor Don.
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Patron
Somhairle Mac DomhnaillMac Domhnaill (Somhairle)
(c. 1586–1632)
(Captain) Somhairle Mac Domhnaill, soldier who belonged to Clann Dhomhnaill of Co. Antrim; ended up in Flanders in 1616 to join the Irish regiment of the Spanish army; a patron who commissioned the compilation of Irish manuscripts.
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(c. 1586–1632)
(Captain) Somhairle Mac Domhnaill, soldier who belonged to Clann Dhomhnaill of Co. Antrim; ended up in Flanders in 1616 to join the Irish regiment of the Spanish army; a patron who commissioned the compilation of Irish manuscripts.
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Copies or excerpts
Codicological information
Material
paper
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.
Sources
Primary sources
[dig. img.] OʼBrien, Anne-Marie, and Pádraig Ó Macháin, Irish Script on Screen (ISOS) – Meamrám Páipéar Ríomhaire, Online: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1999–present. URL: <http://www.isos.dias.ie>.
[‘Book of the O'Conor Don’] direct link
Secondary sources (select)
Ó Macháin, Pádraig, “An introduction to the Book of the O'Conor Don”, in: Pádraig Ó Macháin (ed.), The Book of the O'Conor Don: essays on an Irish manuscript, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2010. 1–31.
External links
web page identifiers
page name: Castlerea, Clonalis House, Book of O'Conor Don
page url: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Castlerea,_Clonalis_House,_Book_of_O%27Conor_Don
redirect: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Special:Redirect/page/2446
numerical alternative: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?curid=2446
page ID: 2446
page ID tracker: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?title=Show:ID&id=2446
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
April 2011, last updated: November 2022
