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Irish prognostications from thunder (RIA 23 M 30)

  • Irish
  • prose

Irish prose tract containing prognostications from thunder. 

First words (prose)
  • Ag so Calendar no Prognosticatio ama ttarrang a h-oibrib Ptolmeus agus ughdar eile do thrácht an astronomi agus ar ttus don tóimig annso
As in RIA MS 23 M 30 (“Here is a Calendar or Prognosticatio taken from the works of Ptolemy and other authors, dealing with astronomy, and in the first place with thunder”).
Manuscripts
p. 349
rubric: ‘Ag so Calendar no Prognosticatio ama ttarrang a h-oibrib Ptolmeus agus ughdar eile do thrácht an astronomi agus ar ttus don tóimig annso’
Maynooth, Russell Library, MS C 8
p. 1
Copy
Cork, University College, MS T 45
p. 31
Copy in the collection of Torna (Tadhg Ó Donnchadha).
Language
  • Irish
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Herbert, Máire, “Some Irish prognostications”, Éigse 14:4 (Geimhreadh, 1972): 303–318.
307–308, 317
[ed.] Ó Donnchadha, Tadhg [Tórna], “An tAthair Eoghan Ó Caoimh: a bheatha agus a shaothar”, Gadelica: A Journal of Modern-Irish Studies 1 (1912–1913): 3–9, 101–111, 251–259, 300 (addenda and corrigenda).
104. Transcript from 23 M 30.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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November 2018, last updated: September 2023