Manuscripts

Dublin, King’s Inns, MS 12-13 Compilation of classical texts in Irish

  • Irish
  • s. xvex multiple volumes
  • Irish manuscripts
Identifiers
Location
Shelfmark
12-13
Type
Irish narrative literature
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xvex
Completed by 1492.
Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:
Main hand Maoílechlainn Ó CianáinÓ Cianáin (Maoílechlainn)
(fl. late 15th century)
Ó Cianáin (Malachias)
Irish scribe responsible for Dublin, King's Inns, MS 12-13 (c. 1491/2), a compilation of classical Greco-Roman tales in Irish
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Codicological information
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multiple volumes
Distinct units

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Locus

While it is not a reality yet, CODECS seeks consistency in formatting references to locations of texts and other items of interest in manuscripts. Our preferences may be best explained with some examples:

  • f. 23ra.34: meaning folio 23 recto, first column, line 34
  • f. 96vb.m: meaning folio 96, verso, second column, middle of the page (s = top, m = middle, i = bottom)
    • Note that marg. = marginalia, while m = middle.
  • p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23

Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Miles, Brent, “Togail Troí: the Irish Destruction of Troy on the Cusp of the Renaissance”, in: A. Shepard, and Stephen D. Powell (eds), Fantasies of Troy. Classical tales and the social imaginary in medieval and early modern Europe, Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, University of Toronto, 2004. 81–96.
87–88
de Brún, Pádraig, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in King's Inns library, Dublin, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1972.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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June 2011, last updated: November 2022