Manuscripts

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 14 Smaointe beatha Chríost

Irish
s. xvi^ex
Irish manuscripts
vellum

Irish manuscript containing a text of the so-called Smaointe beatha Chríost, Tomás Ó Bruacháin's Irish translation of the pseudo-Bonaventuran devotional work Meditationes vitae Christi.

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, National Library of Ireland

Shelfmark

G 14

Classification

Phillipps collection, 21756

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xvi^ex

Late 16th century (Ní Shéaghdha)

Hands, scribes

Ní Shéaghdha has identified three hands, one of whom identifies himself as Muiris Ó hEódhusa (Muiris o hEoghusa).

Hands indexed:

Scribe 1 Hand 1, responsible for pp. 9-107b11, identifies himself as Muiris O hEoghusa. Muiris Ó hEoghusaÓ hEoghusa (Muiris)
(16th century?)
Ó hEódhusa (Muiris)
Irish scribe (NLI MS G 14) and poet, whose name is invoked as the author of Díon Ulltach 'na n-urríoghaibh (39 qq, Copenhagen NKS MS 268b = no. XXI in Greene's edition) and a poem on the birth and crucifixion of Christ, Tosach ar mbeathadh bás Dé (Eg. 136, TCD 1285).
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Scribe 2 Anonymous, responsible for pp. 107b12-137b25

Scribe 3 Anonymous, who is responsible for pp. 137b20-161, including the colophon on the last page, and writes mainly in single column.

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Table of contents

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The following table will be based on Ní Shéaghdha's catalogue description.

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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.] “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>.

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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>

Ó Maonaigh, Cainneach, Smaointe beatha Chríost .i. innsint Ghaelge a chuir Tomás Gruamdha Ó Bruacháin (fl.c. 1450) ar an ‘Meditationes vitae Christi’, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944.

Edition of the text based on the copy in RIA 23 B 3, with variant readings from other manuscripts.