Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1316 Unit: section 3, pp. 67-70

  • Irish
  • s. xiv (?)
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum

Manuscript folios which now comprise the third volume of Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1316.

Identifiers
Location
Part of
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1316 (H 2. 15a, 1316) [s. xiv]
Description

This section contains both secular and religious narratives. Another part of the original manuscript, being in the same hand and of the same size, appears to be that which currently occupies pp. 97-104 (Gwynn, Macalister).

Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xiv (?)
14th century (?). Abbott assigns the material in the composite manuscript as a whole to the 14th century. Gwynn infers from the note on p. 68 that it may have been written as early as c. 1237, when Donnchad Ó Ceanead was candidate for the archbishopric of Cashel. However, Macalister objects that such a date is too early for both the language and orthography of the manuscript and that the meaning of the note is uncertain.(1)n. 1 R. A. S. Macalister, Lebor gabála Érenn: The book of the taking of Ireland, vol. 1 (1932): xxi–xxii.
Origin, provenance
Ireland; Munster
Hands, scribes
The hand has been identified as that of pp. 97-104.
Codicological information
Material
vellum
Table of contents
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Sources

Notes

R. A. S. Macalister, Lebor gabála Érenn: The book of the taking of Ireland, vol. 1 (1932): xxi–xxii.
See also the parent manuscript for further references.

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Secondary sources (select)

Abbott, T. K., and E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of the Irish manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co, 1921.
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Gwynn remarks that pp. 97-104 (containing a fragment of LGÉ) “are of the same size (12" x 9½"), and in the same hand as pp. 67-70, and were therefore written about 1237, if we can trust the note on p. 68.” (source: Gwynn)
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September 2013, last updated: August 2023