Manuscripts

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.40

Irish
s. xv-xvi
Scottish manuscripts

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

Scotland Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland

Shelfmark

Adv. 72.1.40

Classification

Gaelic XL

Type

manuscript miscellanies

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xv-xvi

15th-16th century.

Hands, scribes

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.

Scottish 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.] National Library of Scotland: Collections, Online: NLS, ?–present. URL: <https://www.nls.uk/collections>.

direct link

[dig. img.] “National Library of Scotland”, 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/nls.html>.

direct link

[ed.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890.

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Edits, in the notes, parts of the Life of Colum Cille from this MS, including a substantial part of it on pp. 309-315.

Secondary sources (select)

Black, Ronald, “Catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland”, 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, 2011–. URL: <https://www.isos.dias.ie/collection/nls.html>.

direct link

Mackinnon, Donald, A descriptive catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, and elsewhere in Scotland, Edinburgh: Brown, 1912.

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91–96, 153–157

Meyer, Kuno, “The Edinburgh Gaelic manuscript XL”, Celtic Magazine 12 (1887): 208–218.

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