Manuscripts

Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 19 Maghnus Ó Domhnaill’s Beatha Choluim Chille

Irish
s. xviiⁱⁿ
Irish manuscripts
paper

A copy of Ó Domhnaill’s Life of St Columcille.

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, University College Archives

Collection: Franciscan A: Irish-language manuscripts

Shelfmark

Franciscan A 19

Type

hagiographies Irish narrative literature

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xviiⁱⁿ

Early 17th century.

Hands, scribes

Hands indexed:

Scribe

On f. 61v, there is a scribal colophon dated 1608, concluding with a signature: Brianus Mag Niallghus, Muise na Roice.

Brianus Mag NiallghusMag Niallghus (Brianus)

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

Exemplars

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 514

The colophon (f. 61v) states that the MS was transcribed from a copy made by Giolla Riabhach Mór Ó Cléirigh. Of the two persons known in the relevant historical period as Giolla Riabhach Ó Cléirigh, one, son of Tuathal, has been identified as having been responsible for the Life of Colum Cille in Rawl. B 514.

Codicological information

Material

paper

Dimensions

30.5 cm × 20 cm

Foliation

64 ff. (ff. 1-64, [65] ?)

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.] “University 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/ucd.html>.

direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Dillon, Myles, Canice Mooney, and Pádraig de Brún, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Franciscan Library, Killiney, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1969.

Description reproduced on ISOS.