Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1319 Unit: pp. 90-110

Irish
s. xv manuscript fragment
Irish manuscripts
vellum

Manuscript fragment

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, Trinity College

Part of

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1319 (H 2. 17, 1319) [various]

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xv

15th century

Hands, scribes

Hands indexed:

Hand (pp. 90-99?)

Gwynn notes that “it is not easy to say how many hands have been employed”. At least one scribe appears to be identified in the colophon at the end of Cath Muige Tuired Cunga (p. 99b.16), which states that Cormac Ó Cuirnín wrote it in Mag Eithne (‘Plain of Eithne daughter of the Phantom’) for his companion Seán Ó Glaimhín. O'Donovan identifies the plain as a place south of Ballyshannon (Co. Donegal), where the Ó Cuirnín family had been hereditary poets to the Ó Domhnaill family.

Cormac Ó CuirnínÓ Cuirnín (Cormac)

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

Hand (pp. 99-110)

Another hand (anonymous) was responsible for pp. 99-110 (Gwynn).

Codicological information

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manuscript fragment

Material

vellum

Condition

“Several of the pages are much discoloured and, particularly at the margins, difficult to read, and nearly the whole of the second column of p. 90 is entirely illegible”, John Fraser, ‘The first battle of Moytura’, Ériu 8 (1916).

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