Manuscripts
Forthcoming. The following table of contents is based on that of Brian Ó Cuív, Catalogue of Irish MSS in the Bodleian (2001): no. 38.
f. 123r–
Early Modern Irish version of the “The Quest for the Holy Grail”. It is the first fragment in the manuscript, but several leaves are now out of order. The text continues from f. 139 below. The correct order of the remaining leaves are: ff. 125, 123, 127-132, 124, 126.
f. 126rb
[Oibind beith ar Beinn Edair]
extractIncipit: ‘Aibhinn beith ar B[i]nn Etair ... Is anba luas ma curaig ... Mo cos am curhán ceolach ... Fail suil nglais’
incl. Fil súil n-glais
Four quatrains from a poem preserved in fuller form in Brussels MS 5100-5104 (24 qq) and there attributed to Colum Cille. The quatrains here correspond to qq. 2-5 of that version.
f. 126rb
Heading/rubric: ‘Oghum consónant sísaná’
Prose note.
f. 126rb.17
marg.
Scribal note, apparently of the 16th century. Ó Cuív gives the text, except for the first three lines, which have been erased.
scribal addition x
f. 126v
Scribblings.
scribal addition x
f. 127–
See the note above.
f. 133ra–
Acephalous. See note above.
f. 140ra.1–
Incipit: ‘Feart aenach Tailten la Diarmuid...’
Story about Diarmait mac Cerbaill and St. Ciarán at the assembly of Tailtiu
f. 140ra.22–
Story of the abbot of Druimenaig.
f. 140b
Story about the temptation of a confessor by a woman
f. 140b
Story of two fellow clerical students
f. 141a
Story of Columba.
f. 141a
Story of King Gúaire
f. 141a
Story of the ghost of Mac Craith mac mic in-Lomanaigh
f. 141b
Story about daughter of the son of Tadg úa Cellaigh Maine
f. 141b
Two legends about St. Moling of Luachair
f. 141b
Story of St. Comgall of Bangor
f. 142a
Story of Brenainn moccu Alta
f. 142a
Story of Baithín and St. Columba.
f. 142rb–
Story of Mo Chutu and the Devil.
f. 142b
Story of David, Solomon and Absalom
f. 142b
Story of Mochuta
f. 142b
Irish legend of Job
f. 143a
marg.
Scribal note dedicated to John Punket and the daughter of the Baron of Galtrim.
scribal addition x
f. 143rb
Irish legend of St. Patrick, King Lóegaire's son and Michael the Archangel
f. 143b
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.
Note on tidings, arguments and history: Foilsigter na focail ar tri coraib .i. scél ocus arrumainte ocus (s)tair
f. 143b
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.
Note on a land east of Asia
f. 143b
“The meeting/combat of Cú Chulainn and Senbecc”
f. 143b
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.
Religious note on repentance
f. 143b
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.
The triad Tri h-inganta Temrach (“The three wonders of Tara”)
f. 143b
Irish legend of St Gregory and the widow who laughed at mass.
f. 144a
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.
Conclusion to the legend of Solomon
f. 144a
Legend of David and Solomon
f. 144ra–
Note on a Greek king
f. 144a
Note on pilgrimage of four Irish clerics to Rome.
f. 144va.36–
Legend of Emperor Constantine
f. 144vb
Note on three gods of Danu.
f. 144vb.33–
Beginning of Esnada tige Buchet (“The songs of Buchet's house”). Cf: f. 122ra.
