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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 487 Unit: section 3, ff. 53–67early Irish law (Heptads, Bretha comaithchesa)

  • Irish, Latin
  • s. xv
  • distinct manuscript
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum
Identifiers
Location
Part of
Type
early Irish legal texts
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish Secondary: Latin
Date
s. xv
15th century.
Hands, scribes
“Two scribes, and possibly a third, seem to have co-operated in writing the main text and glosses and commentary, most of the work being done by one scribe” (Ó Cuív).
Hands indexed:
Main scribe Anonymous.
Assistant hand (ff. 53rb, 54ra)

“The second hand seems to begin on f. 53rb (top half), and it appears again on f. 54ra (top)” (Ó Cuív).

Hand 3? (f. 60va)

“What may be a third hand appears on f. 60va” (Ó Cuív).

Later scribes

“Letters and words have been occasionally added by later scribes, e.g. on f. 55ra” (Ó Cuív).

Codicological information
UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.
distinct manuscript
Material
vellum
Dimensions
27.75 cm × 22 cm
“c. 27.5–28 × 22 cm” (Ó Cuív).
Table of contents
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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. 1, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  
comments: numbered pp. 1–337; diplomatic edition of legal material three manuscripts: the Bodleian manuscripts Rawlinson B 487 and Rawlinson B 506, and TCD 1433 (E 3. 5).
1–80 Diplomatic edition of the legal material on ff. 53a–67a

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Cuív, Brian, Catalogue of Irish language manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford college libraries. Part 1: Descriptions, Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, DIAS, 2001.
134–140
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
May 2021, last updated: August 2023
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