Manuscripts
f. 79r–
Both beginning and ending are wanting. The extant text in this MS corresponds to §§ 756-1224 of the Yellow Book of Lecan. Written in three columns.
f. 83ra–
[Sanas Cormaic]
(section)
Continued from f. 80v, still written in three columns.
f. 86rc.34–
colophon
Scribal note written by Seaán Buidhe Ó Cléirigh: Is hé annalad in tigerna in úair do scribad in sanasán so na saltrach .i. mile bliadan ⁊ ceithri cet bliadan ⁊ tri bliadna déc ⁊ da xx. in cuiced lá do mí Fhebra ⁊ int ochtmad lá don esca. Misi Seaan Buidhi O Cléirig do scrib ⁊ dÉmann Buillter mac Risterd do scribad, and following a blank line, Sanasan saltrach Cormaic so (transcriptions by Ó Cuív).
f. 86va.1–
[Dinnshenchas of Slige Dála]
Incipit: ‘Dala Ghlass do Grecaib Scithia’
f. 86va.32–
[Dinnshenchas of Dún Másc]
Heading/rubric: ‘Cainen Masc mac Augein’
f. 86vb.18
Incipit: ‘ata Emann ina imdaid’
Scribal note in purple ink.
f. 86vb.19–
No text identified: it may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant.Incipit: ‘Ba la Laignib o Boind co Sidh ar Femin.’
Note on oircne ‘slayings’.
f. 86vb.33
Incipit: ‘A libur buidhe Ferna do scribad’
Scribal note written in purple ink.
f. 86vb.34
No text identified: it may await identification in a dedicated catalogue entry, the entry may exist but no link has yet been made, or it was not felt to be sufficiently relevant. fragm.Incipit: ‘Fintan mac Ethach ⁊ Colman ⁊ Columb’
Other than this line, the text is lost.
Chasm.
Gatherings 11–12 (ff. 79–92)
Ó Cuív explains that the leaves are out of order and the foliation is in error, which is the outcome of two mistakes. First of all, the bifolium formed by what is now ff. 81–82 was foliated at a time when it had been accidentally transferred from (12) to (11). Even though its position was later restored, the misfoliation persists. Second, while one mistake in the arrangement was corrected, another occurred because (12) was folded and sewn backwards. Ff. 81–82, originally at the centre of (12), became outer leaves and the resulting order of leaves in (12) is [82], [90, 91, 92], [87, 88, 89], [81].