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London, British Library, MS Egerton 90 Unit: section 3, second part, ff. 13-16

  • Irish
  • s. xv/xvi
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum
Four leaves of material relating to early Irish law, notably extracts from the so-called A-version of Bretha éitgid. The leaves were taken from a manuscript, described by William O’Sullivan as ‘The book of Dáibhídh Ó Súilleabháin Bán’, fragments of which survive elsewhere (RIA D v 2).
Identifiers
Location
Part of
Type
early Irish legal texts
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xv/xvi
15th or 16th century
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
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.
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. 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  
Volume 5 of the Corpus iuris Hibernici, which is numbered pp. 1532–1925, contains diplomatic editions of legal material from TCD 1363 (H 4. 22), the Book of Ballymote (RIA 23 P 12), BL Egerton 90 and TCD 1336 (H 3. 17).
Diplomatic edition

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series, 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.  

A companion to D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978). Review article: Neil McLeod, ‘Review,A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici’, Peritia 19 (2005).

7; 10-11; 71; 176–182
OʼSullivan, William, “The Book of Domhnall Ó Duibhdábhoireann: provenance and codicology”, Celtica 23 (1999): 276–299.
279
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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79–82
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
September 2014, last updated: November 2022
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