Manuscripts

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 10 Unit: section 1, pp. 1-18

Irish
s. xvi² distinct manuscript
Irish manuscripts
vellum

A fragment of Lebor gabála Érenn and an imperfect copy of Cath Maighe Léna

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, National Library of Ireland

Part of

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 10 [s. xvi]

Type

Irish narrative literature

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xvi²

Second half of the 16th century (Ní Shéaghdha). Arguing that the hand symbol in the scribal colophon of p. 12 has graphemic value, Ó Concheanainn suggests a later date of 1600.⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Tomás Ó Concheanainn, ‘Gilla Ísa Mac Fir Bhisigh and a scribe of his school’, Ériu 25 (1974): 157 n. 1.

Hands, scribes

The manuscript is the work of several hands, only one of whom leaves a signature. The analysis below follows Nessa Ní Shéaghdha, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the National Library of Ireland (1967).

Hands indexed:

Hand 1 The scribe responsible for LGÉ, who is both anonymous and unidentified.

Hand 2 First of at least two scribes that wrote Cath Maighe Léna (Ní Shéaghdha). Anonymous.

Hand 3 (Dualtach mac Semuis) Second of at least two scribes that wrote Cath Maighe Léna. In a note at the foot of p. 12, he gives his name as Dualtach mac Semuis (Dubhaltach son of Séamus) and his place as Lecan (Lackan, Co. Sligo). He has been identified as Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhir Bhisigh, the grandfather of the genealogist Dubhaltach (Óg) Mac Fhir Bhisigh. Ní Shéaghdha's transcription of the note reads: “Misse in Dubaltach mac Semuis do graiph in beag sin Luan [I]nede 7 a Lecan mo locc” Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhir BhisighMac Fhir Bhisigh (Dubhaltach Mór)
Irish scholar and scribe of the Mac Fhir Bhisigh learned family
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Hand 4 (Dubhalthach?) Possibly a third hand may be seen on p. 11 (lower half), but Ní Shéaghdha thinks it more likely to be Dubhalthach in “a slightly different of style of writing”. Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhir BhisighMac Fhir Bhisigh (Dubhaltach Mór)
Irish scholar and scribe of the Mac Fhir Bhisigh learned family
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Codicological information

UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.

distinct manuscript

Material

vellum

Collation

1⁶ (pp. 1-12) + 2³ (pp. 13-16 + 17-18 [which originally followed 12]) = 9 (total)

Palaeographical information

Script

Category: Gaelic National minuscule

Table of contents

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Irish manuscripts

Sources

Notes

^1.

Tomás Ó Concheanainn, ‘Gilla Ísa Mac Fir Bhisigh and a scribe of his school’, Ériu 25 (1974): 157 n. 1.

See also the parent manuscript for further references.

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.] “National Library of Ireland”, 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, 1999–present. URL: <https://www.isos.dias.ie/collection/nli.html>.

Digital reproduction direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Ní Shéaghdha, Nessa, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the National Library of Ireland, fasc. 1: Mss G 1 – G 14, Studies in Irish Manuscripts, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967.

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies: <link>

[‘G 10’]

Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone [ed.], Cath Maighe Léna, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 9, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1938.

CELT – edition: <link>

[‘Introduction’]