Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C iii 3 Annals of the Four Masters

Irish
s. xvii
Irish manuscripts

A 17th-century autograph manuscript of the Annals of the Four Masters, covering the period 2242 BC-1171 AD. Scribes include Mícheál and Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh.

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, Royal Irish Academy

Collection: Stowe and Ashburnham collection

Shelfmark

C iii 3

Classification

Cat. no. 1220

Type

Irish annals

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xvii

17th century.

Hands, scribes

Five hands.

Hands indexed:

Main hand Mícheál Ó CléirighÓ Cléirigh (Mícheál)
(d. 1643)
O'Clery (Michael)
Irish scholar, historian and scribe.
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Cú Choigcríche Ó CléirighÓ Cléirigh (Cú Choigcríche)
(d. in or after 1664)
Ó Cléirigh (Cú Choigcríche)
Irish scholar, poet, historian and scribe; one of the so-named ‘Four Masters’.
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Copies or excerpts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1300 (H 2. 9-10) [1734-1735]

The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

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)

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, 3276–3282 [id. 1220.]

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, 113–115 (?) [id. 21.]