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Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 5

  • Irish
  • 1839
  • Irish manuscripts
  • paper
Facsimile transcript of the Book of Lismore produced by Eugene O'Curry for the Royal Irish Academy, with the assistance of John O'Donovan.
Identifiers
Shelfmark
23 H 5
Classification
Cat. no. 477
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
1839
1839.
Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:
Eugene O'CurryO'Curry (Eugene)
(b. 1794–d. 1862)
Ó Comhraí (Eoghan)
Irish scholar
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Codicological information
Material
paper

Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Cuív, Brian, “Observations on the Book of Lismore”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 83 C (1983): 269–292.
Jstor: <link>
Mulchrone, Kathleen, Thomas F. OʼRahilly, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, and A. I. Pearson, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, 8 vols, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1926–1970.  
8 volumes: Vol. 1, pp. 1–654 (fasc. 1-5) -- Vol. 2, pp. 655–1294 (fasc. 6-10) -- Vol. 3, pp. 1295–1938 (fasc. 11-15) -- Vol. 4, pp. 1939–2578 (fasc. 16-20) -- Vol. 5, pp. 2579–3220 (fasc. 21-25) -- Vol. 6, pp. 3221–3500 (fasc. 26-27) -- Vol. 7 (index 1) -- Vol. 8 (index 2).
Vol. 2, 1273–1278 [id. 477.]
OʼCurry, Eugene, Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history, delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland during the sessions of 1855 and 1856, Dublin, 1861.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – Originally from Google Books: <link>, <link>, <link> Internet Archive – multiple copies: <link>
196–200 O'Curry writes about his own experiences when he encountered parts of the Book of Lismore and produced his transcript. Some of his claims were critically assessed by Ó Cuív (1983). direct link
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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October 2018, last updated: December 2022