Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B ii 1

Irish
s. xiv-xv ? composite manuscript
Irish manuscripts

Astronomical tracts in Irish, translated from the Latin; and medical tracts.

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, Royal Irish Academy

Collection: Stowe and Ashburnham collection

Shelfmark

B ii 1

Classification

Cat. no. 1216

Type

Irish medicine and medical writing

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xiv-xv ?

14th-15th centuries?

Origin, provenance

Origin: Ireland

Ireland

No short description available

Later provenance: ass. with Ó Conuill (Donnchadh)Ó Conuill (Donnchadh)

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more On p. 22, the name Donncha Ó Conaill is written in ornate capitals. According to Ó Concheanainn, the name likely refers to a late owner of the manuscript, who is perhaps the scribe of this name who wrote TCD 1411 (c.1737) in An Guirtin, identified as a place in the Fermoy area. He also suggests that like the Uí Leighin, he and the Uí Conuill of Fir Mhuighe may have been associated with the Roche family.

Later provenance: ass. with Astle (Thomas)

Astle (Thomas)

(1735–1803)

English archivist and antiquarian.

See more Thomas Astle had it in his possession from 1763 until his death in 1804. He added a brief description of the astronomical tract in his The origin and progress of writing (1786), which includes a lithograph of part of p. 12 (Plate 22).

Later provenance: Stowe HouseStowe House

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

Later provenance: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy

No short description available

See more Acquired in 1883.

Hands, scribes

Hands indexed:

The scribe

See Ó Concheanainn (1976).

Aodh Buidhe Ó LeighinÓ Leighin (Aodh Buidhe)
Irish scribe and scholar of the Uí Léighin of Fermoy, whose scribal contributions include medicinal and astronomical texts.
See more

Codicological information

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

composite manuscript

Distinct units

According to the catalogue, the manuscript is a composite of three originally discrete sections, whose leaves were later bound in disarray.

pp. 1-22

Dublin, Royal Irish Acade… a (pp. 1-22, 33-34)

Part of section a.

pp. 23-26

Dublin, Royal Irish Acade… b (pp. 23-26, 29-32)

Part of section b. Medical manuscript.

27-28

Dublin, Royal Irish Acade… c (pp. 27-28)

Medico-philosophical fragment.

pp. 29-32

Dublin, Royal Irish Acade… b (pp. 23-26, 29-32)

Another part of section b.

33-[34]

Dublin, Royal Irish Acade… a (pp. 1-22, 33-34)

Table of contents

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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.] “Royal Irish Academy”, 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/ria.html>.

direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Nic Dhonnchadha, Aoibheann, “The ‘Book of the O’Lees’ and other medical manuscripts and astronomical tracts”, in: Bernadette Cunningham, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, and Petra Schnabel (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009. 81–91.

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. 6, 3261–3266 [id. 1216.]

Ó Concheanainn, Tomás, “The scribe of the Irish astronomical tract in RIA B ii 1”, Celtica 11 (1976): 158–167.

OʼConor, Charles, Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis: a descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Stowe Library, 2 vols, Buckingham, 1818–1819.

Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 2: <link>

Vol. 1, 135–137 [id. 28.]