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London, British Library, MS Egerton 90

  • Irish
  • s. xiv-xvi composite manuscript
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum
A slim, composite Irish manuscript. It includes the deed of a dispute over land (section 2), two legal fragments (section 3) and four leaves which have been identified as belonging originally to RIA MS D ii 1 alias the Book of Uí Maine (section 4).
Identifiers
Location
Collection: Egerton manuscripts
Shelfmark
Egerton 90
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xiv-xvi
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.
composite manuscript
Material
vellum
Distinct units
f. 1
London, British Library, …  f. 1

A memorandum written in English by James Hardiman.

ff. 2-7
London, British Library, …  section 1 (ff. 2-7) [s. xv/xvi]

A calendar in Irish, signs of the zodiac and a marginal medical recipe.

f. 8
London, British Library, …  section 2 (f. 8) [s. xv/xvi]

Deed.

ff. 9-12
London, British Library, …  section 3.1 (ff. 9-12) [s. xv/xvi]

First part of the third section, containing material relating to early Irish law.

ff. 13-16
London, British Library, …  section 3.2 (ff. 13-16) [s. xv/xvi]

Second part of the third section, containing material relating to early Irish law.

ff. 17-20
London, British Library, …  section 4 (ff. 17-20) [s. xiv]

Four leaves which belonged originally to the Book of Uí Maine (RIA D ii 1).

Table of contents
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Locus

While it is not a reality yet, CODECS seeks consistency in formatting references to locations of texts and other items of interest in manuscripts. Our preferences may be best explained with some examples:

  • f. 23ra.34: meaning folio 23 recto, first column, line 34
  • f. 96vb.m: meaning folio 96, verso, second column, middle of the page (s = top, m = middle, i = bottom)
    • Note that marg. = marginalia, while m = middle.
  • p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23
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

Secondary sources (select)

OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 1, London: British Museum, 1926.
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76–85
OʼSullivan, William, “The Book of Uí Maine formerly the Book of Ó Dubhagáin: scripts and structure”, Éigse 23 (1989): 151–166.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
July 2011, last updated: July 2022
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