Manuscripts

Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS NKS 268b Duanaire Mhéig Uidhir

Irish
s. xvi²/xviii
Irish manuscripts
vellum + paper

Duanaire (poem-boek) commissioned by Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir, lord of Fermanagh (1566-1589).

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

Denmark Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek

Collection: Den nye kongelige samling

Shelfmark

NKS 268b

Title

Duanaire Mhéig Uidhir

Type

duanairí

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xvi²/xviii

16th century, with 18th-century additions

Origin, provenance

Ireland

Hands, scribes

Patron

Mág Uidhir (Cú Chonnacht)

Mág Uidhir (Cú Chonnacht)

(?–1589)

lord of Fermanagh (1566-1589); dedicatee of a poem-boek (Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS NKS 268b).

Codicological information

Material

vellum + paper

Dimensions

30 cm × 20 cm

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.

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.] Det Kongelige Bibliotek website, Online: Det Kongelige Bibliotek, ...–present. URL: <http://www.kb.dk>.

Digital images direct link

[ed.] Greene, David, Duanaire Mhéig Uidhir: the poembook of Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir, lord of Fermanagh 1566–1589, edited from the Copenhagen manuscript, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1972. xvi + 291 pp.

Edition