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London, British Library, MS Additional 4783 Unit: ff. 3-7Irish miscellany

  • Irish
  • s. xvex
  • manuscript fragment
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum
Five vellum leaves.
Identifiers
Location
Part of
London, British Library, MS Additional 4783 = Milles collection vol. 30 [s. xvex–xvii]
Type
early Irish legal texts
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xvex
Late 15th century.
Hands, scribes
“written in more than one hand, probably in a lawschool of the Mac Aodhagáin family, the brehons of Connaught and Ormond” (Flower).
Codicological information
UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.
manuscript fragment
Material
vellum
Dimensions
11.375 ″ × 8.25 ″
Collation
15 (ff. 3-7) = 5 (total)
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

See also the parent manuscript for further references.

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.

[dipl. ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  
comments: numbered pp. 1926–2343; diplomatic edition of legal material from:
  • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 (continued)
  • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1387
  • Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502
  • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1308
  • London, British Library, MS Additional 4783
  • London, British Library, MS Nero A 7
  • Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS NKS 261b
  • Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 3
  • Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 11
  • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C i 2
  • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16
  • Dublin, Trinity College, MS E 3. 3
2209–2210 Diplomatic edition

Secondary sources (select)

Flower, Robin [ed.], Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 2, London: British Museum, 1926.
519–524
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
August 2016, last updated: September 2022
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