Manuscripts
f. 5–
Keating’s history of Ireland, with miscellaneous material (see below)
f. 1a
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
English note on the use of the alphabet for purposes of divination.
f. 1b
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
Irish note on the origin of printing. Cf. 241.
f. 1b
[Sogh et anshogh dála an domnáin]
Incipit: ‘Sogh et anshogh dála an domnáin’
Moral stanza.
f. 2a
English note on unlucky days
f. 3b
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
English note on the chair of Scone.
f. 3b
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
Two Irish stanzas on dates.
f. 4b
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
Some columns of arithmetical progressions.
f. 162b
[Ceist uaim do cuirim]
Incipit: ‘Ceist uaim do cuirim’
Poem on the nine whirlpools (sumaire) of the world. 9 stanzas.
f. 163–
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
Genealogical tables.
f. 189b–
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
Pedigrees of Irish saints.
f. 192–
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
Further genealogical tables.
f. 198
f. 200b
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
Tract on the pedigrees of Irish saints, written in 1648. Cf. f. 189b.
f. 206b
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
Page of proverbs.
f. 207
[Tiucfa aimsear a Brenainn]
Incipit: ‘Tiucfa aimsir a Breanain’
First of three poems of prophecies attributed to St Colum Cille. 32 stanzas.
f. 208
[O airimh a Bhaoithin bhaghaigh]
Incipit: ‘O airimh a Bhaoithin bhaghaigh’
Second poem of prophecies attributed to Colum Cille. 45 stanzas.
f. 210
[Eistea frim a Baithín buain]
Incipit: ‘Eisd riom a Bhaoithin bhaghaig’
Third poem of prophecies attributed to Colum Cille. 21 stanzas.
marg.
At the end of the poem is the date 1713.
scribal addition x
f. 211–
[Oidheadh Con Culainn]
Heading/rubric: ‘Dearg ruathar Chonuill Chearnaig’
Poems only, the first of which begins 'A Chonuill ca séilb na cind'. 29 quatrains. Cf. Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1287, p. 95; TCD 1287, 145; TCD 1296, 338 (begins differently); TCD 1362, 267. Cf. Cameron, Reliquiae Celticae, vol. 1: 67.
f. 212b
marg.
The scribe, Domnall Mac Giolla Comhaill, names himself in the margin to the poem following: 'Danielis Congallus', with the date 1713.
scribal addition x
f. 212b
[Claoidhtear an feart budheasta]
Incipit: ‘Claoidhtear an feart budheasta’
Short poem attributed to Eimer (Emer), Cú Chulainn's wife, at the digging of his grave. 6 stanzas.
f. 213
[Uch a chinn, Uch a chinn]
Incipit: ‘Uch a chinn, Uch a chinn’
Another poem attributed to Eimer (Emer), on the head of Cú Chulainn being brought by Conall Cearnach. 14 stanzas.
f. 214
[Uchan ach ón uchan ach on lá do cuaidhmar san gcath]
Incipit: ‘Uchan ach ón uchan ach on lá do cuaidhmar san gcath’
Dialogue between Eimer and Láoigh. 16 stanzas.
f. 214b
[Dún Dealgan an bánsa tríar]
Incipit: ‘Air faiscin Dún Dealgan do Láoigh adbert: Dún Dealgan an bánsa tríar’
Poem. Three stanzas.
f. 215a
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
Oral counsels signed by the scribe, Domnaill McGiolla Comhgaill.
scribal addition x
f. 215b
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
Chronological notes.
f. 216a
No text identified. It may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.
14 names for Ireland.
f. 216b
[Tri caoga psalm]
Heading/rubric: ‘Tri caoga psalm’
Poem on religious discipline. 7 stanzas.
f. 217
[Mor anocht mo chumhadh sein]
Incipit: ‘Mor (a)nocht mo chumhadh sein’
Poem attributed to Oisín. 48 stanzas.
f. 219
f. 228b
marg.
Name of the scribe, 'Domnall Mac Giolla Comhaill' and date 1710
scribal addition x
f. 229
Prose story of O'Donnell's Kern, ed. SG i: 276. Imperfect.
f. 233–
blank
f. 241
Notes on prosody
f. 241b
Dates relating to the history of printing.
f. 242
blank
f. 243
Fragments of a sermon, chiefly quotations from Solomon.
f. 244
blank
f. 245a
Fragment of a satirical piece.
f. 245a
Incipit: ‘Do ráid ludar labhar linne ar dteangaidh dhucais’
f. 245b–
English text on the days of the month on which Adam was created, Eve made, Cain born, etc.
f. 246b
List of Popes
f. 247b
List of Kings of Scotland. Folio inverted.
f. 248
The Ten Commandments in Latin verse.(1)n. 1 The catalogue has "p. 248".
f. 248
Two Latin distichs, with the second rendered in both English and Irish.
f. 248
The characteristics of the hungry Spaniard, Frenchman, Englishman and Irishman, described in Latin, English and Irish. Written by Daniel Congall, A.D. 1718.
f. 248b
Incipit: ‘A Mhic Briain na mbreith ccert os-duit is dual eisdeacht’
Verses. 3 stanzas.
f. 248b.7
Incipit: ‘I ccosa con bhios a cuid deisem riot a dhuine ghlic’
Two lines. Cf. BL cat. 482.
f. 248b.9
Incipit: ‘A mharcaigh leith den airechus geur is na sgaoil do chú’
8 lines
f. 248b
Another quatrain, partly illegible.
f. 249a
Latin prayer to God and St. Roch against the plague: "Haec scripta fuerunt pro sanitate animae et corporis Donaldi Congalli."
f. 250a
Illegible, except the following quatrain
f. 250a
Incipit: ‘Ni hail liom an gnas so’
Quatrain
f. 250b
Dates of Cain, Abraham, etc.
f. 251
Names of officers, trades, etc. in English and Latin.
The following table of contents is mainly derived from the catalogue description by Abbott and Gwynn (1921): 176-178.