Manuscripts

The following overview is based mainly on T. K. Abbott • E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish MSS in TCD (1921).

Hand A

cols 710*-737
col. 710*–col. 719
[Suidiugud tellaig Temra] Incipit: ‘Badar Hui Neill fecht’
710* (with an asterisk) is so numbered because it is mostly illegible.
col. 720b–col. 723a
col. 724–col. 724
[Caisil atcondarc ane] Incipit: ‘Caisil atcondarc ané’
Brief poem about the history of Cashel
col. 724.27
(1) On the different territories called Partraige, extracts from which are given, with discussion, in Eoin MacNeill, ‘Early Irish population groups’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 29 C (1911–1912): 91;

(2) anecdote about Sadb, daughter of Ailill and Medb;

(3) anecdote about Mada (Mata) of Muiresc.
col. 725
On the wonders of Ireland
col. 727.16
Anecdotes of Cormac mac Airt, Finn mac Cumaill and others
col. 727.27
Tract on the properties of numbers
col. 728
List of the kings descending from Cormac Cas
col. 729
[Biblical genealogies in TCD 1336] Incipit: ‘Hi sunt / filii / Nae / Semh / Camh / Iafeth’
Genealogies from the Bible, in seven columns, with a slightly more noticeable gap between the first four and final three columns (col. 729 designates the entire page). The last 17 lines of the final column contain apocryphal notes about Mary and her father Joachim as well as a prayer to Mary. At the bottom is a note identifying the source of the text as the Lebar buide Meic Murchada: Amail adeir in Lebar Buidhe Meic Murcada annso anuas. The page is headed by a quotation from Numbers 26:19, here Fili Iuda [sic?], .Er. ⁊ Onan qui ambo mortui sunt in terra Cannan, etc.
Lacuna between cols 729 and 730.
col. 730–col. 732
col. 734
Various paragraphs on persons and places
col. 734.12
List of mothers and wives
col. 737
Genealogy

Hand C

cols 738–739
col. 738