Manuscripts

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.8

Irish
s. xiv-xv composite manuscript
Scottish manuscripts
vellum

NLS Adv. MS 72.1.8 consists of two sections which were originally separate manuscripts. Both contain vernacular adaptations of classical material: the first section, counting 26 leaves, contians Togail na Tebe; the second (10 leaves) contains parts of the Troy tale.

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

Scotland Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland

Shelfmark

Adv. 72.1.8

Classification

Gaelic VIII

Kilbride MS 4

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xiv-xv

14th-15th century.

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.

composite manuscript

Material

vellum

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”, 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>.

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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