Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 Unit: section 11, cols. 401-436YBL section: fragment of Dinnshenchas Érenn

Irish
s. xv manuscript fragment
Irish manuscripts
vellum

Manuscript fragment of nine folios (cols 401-436 = pp. 438-455 of the facsimile) containing an incomplete copy of Dinnshenchas Érenn (recension C).

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, Trinity College

Part of

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 (H 2. 16, 1318) = Yellow Book of Lecan (Leabhar Buidhe Lecain) [s. xiv–xv]

Type

dinnshenchas

Description

It includes the dinnshenchas of Tara and Achill, all down to Slíab Mairge. The dinnshenchas on Tara includes Turim tigi Temrach (cols. 403).

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xv

Gwynn: “The script seems to belong to the fifteenth century, but there are no notes to give information as to the date or the scribe’s name”.

Hands, scribes

Hands indexed:

Main hand (anonymous)

Gwynn writes that with the exception of some additions and corrections (below), “[i]t is the work of one hand” and that ”[t]he script seems to belong to the fifteenth century, but there are no notes to give information as to the date or the scribe’s name”.

Additional hand

According to Gwynn, the main hand was not responsible for “the article on Sliab Bladma and the verse (not the prose) of Ceilbe, which are added in a later hand, on two strips of vellum”.

Corrector (Ch. O'Conor?)

“The text of the Dindshenchas has been corrected throughout by a late hand – perhaps Charles O'Conor, who has similarly maltreated the section of the MS. containing coll. 573-958. His corrections sometimes obliterate the original reading” (Gwynn).

Codicological information

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

manuscript fragment

Material

vellum

Table of contents

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Irish manuscripts

Sources

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See the main entry for YBL.

[dig. img.] “Trinity College, Dublin”, 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/tcd.html>.

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 Unit: section 11, cols. 401-436YBL section: fragment of Dinnshenchas Érenn

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.

Secondary sources (select)