Manuscripts

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 Miscellany (prose and verse)

Irish
1516-1518
Irish manuscripts
vellum

Identifiers

Location

England London, British Library

Collection: Egerton manuscripts

Shelfmark

Egerton 1782

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

including Old and Middle Irish

Date

1516-1518

Origin, provenance

Origin: Ireland

Ireland

No short description available

See more ass. with Ó Maoil Chonaire family

Ó Maoil Chonaire family

Important learned family of poets, historians and scribes based in Connacht.

Later provenance: ass. with Ó Dálaigh (Aodh)

Ó Dálaigh (Aodh)

(fl. mid–18th century)

Irish scribe and poet

See more Some of the texts were transcribed from this manuscript by Hugh O'Daly in TCD MSS 1=1287 and 1384.⁽²⁾^{n. 2} T. K. Abbott • E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish MSS in TCD (1921): 40 and 245. Another 18th-century paper manuscript containing transcripts from Egerton 1782 is Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 130.

Hands, scribes

A number of scribes from Ó Maoil Chonaire family.

Patron

Mac Murchadha Caomhánach (Art Buidhe)

Mac Murchadha Caomhánach (Art Buidhe)

(r. 1511–d. 1517)

King of Leinster, son of Domhnall Riabhach.

Copies or excerpts

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 130 [s. xviii]
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 138 [c.1727]
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1287 (H 1. 13) [1746]
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1288 (H 1. 14) [c. 1750]
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1384 (H 5. 12) [1749]

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Dimensions

9.5 ″ × 6 ″

Table of contents

Legend

Texts

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Irish manuscripts

Sources

Notes

^1.

T. K. Abbott • E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish MSS in TCD (1921): 40 and 245.

^2.

T. K. Abbott • E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish MSS in TCD (1921): 40 and 245.

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.] British Library: digitised manuscripts, Online: British Library. URL: <http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts>.

direct link

Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften. V. Aus Egerton 1782 [Marginalia]”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 4 (1903): 31–32.

Internet Archive: <link>

Selected marginalia.

Secondary sources (select)

Flower, Robin, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 2, London: British Museum, 1926.

– IIIF Presentation API v2: View in Mirador – IIIF Presentation API v3: View in Mirador

259–298

Watson, Andrew George, Catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols, London: British Library, 1979.

vol 1: no. 602