Manuscripts

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 3 Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin

Irish
s. xiv-xv
Irish manuscripts
vellum

Manuscript miscellany which originally belonged to a larger codex, together with NLI MS G 2.

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, National Library of Ireland

Shelfmark

G 3

Classification

Phillipps collection, 7022

Title

Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin

Type

manuscript miscellanies Irish poetry and verse (vernacular) early Irish legal texts

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xiv-xv

14th-15th centuries

Hands, scribes

Hands indexed:

Hand Ádam Ó CianáinÓ Cianáin (Ádam)
(fl. 14th century)
Ó Cianáin (Adhamh)
Ádam Ó Cianáin of Lisgoole, Co. Fermanagh, Irish scribe. His obit is recorded in AFM s.a. 1374.
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Copies or excerpts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1289 (H 1. 15) = The Psalter of Tara [1745]

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Table of contents

Legend

Texts

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Locus

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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)
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p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23

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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>.

direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Hayden, Deborah, “Cryptography and the alphabet in the ‘Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin’”, in: Deborah Hayden, and Paul Russell (eds), Grammatica, gramadach and gramadeg: vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales, 125, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016. 35–64.

Ní Shéaghdha, Nessa, and Pádraig Ó Macháin, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the National Library of Ireland, Studies in Irish Manuscripts, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1961–1996.

comments: 13 fasciculi published between 1961 and 1996: