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Stockholm, Kungliga biblioteket, MS Vitterhet Engelsk II

  • Irish
  • s. xvi
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum
Identifiers
Location
Shelfmark
Vitterhet Engelsk II
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xvi
16th century
Origin, provenance
Origin: Ireland
Ireland
No short description available
See more Connacht
Connacht/Cúige Chonnacht
No short description available
See more “clearly of Connacht origin” (Ó Concheannáin).
Later provenance: Ireland
Ireland
No short description available
See more ass. with Mág Uidhir (Pilip)Mág Uidhir (Pilip)
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
See more Concerning the history of the manuscript, Stern mentions, first, that the manuscript belonged to the Irish Franciscan friar Pilip Mag Uidhir (Philipp Maguire) at the end of the 17th century.
Later provenance: ItalyItaly
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
See more SwedenSweden
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
See more ass. with Mág Uidhir (Pilip)Mág Uidhir (Pilip)
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
See more Sparwenfeldt (J. G.)
Sparwenfeldt (J. G.)
(d. 1727)
No short description available
See more Stern further writes that in 1693, Pilip Mag Uidhir, then in Rome, donated the manuscript to the Swedish travelling antiquary Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeldt (1655-1727). Sparwenfeldt left a Latin note on p. 5a (Rome, 19 April, 1693) and brought it with him to Sweden.
Later provenance: The manuscript was (re)discovered in the library in 1842.
Later provenance: Ireland
Ireland
No short description available
See more ass. with Stephens (George)
Stephens (George)
(d. 1895)
English philologist active in Sweden and Denmark
See more Betham (William)
Betham (William)
(1779–1853)
(Sir) William Betham, English antiquary and collector of manuscripts; member of the Royal Irish Academy
See more Stokes (Whitley)
Stokes (Whitley)
(1830–1909)
No short description available
See more In 1844, George Stephens sent a facsimile (now Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 2) to William Betham.(3)n. 3 George Stephens, Förteckning öfver de förnämsta brittiska och fransyska handskrifterna uti Kongl. bibliotheket i Stockholm (1847): 18–19. A transcript by Betham, inter alia, is preserved as Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 88. Later, in August 1875, a photographic reproduction (now London, British Library, MS Additional 35090) was made for Whitley Stokes.(4)n. 4 Ludwig Christian Stern, ‘Die irische Handschrift in Stockholm’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 1 (1897).
Hands, scribes
Copies or excerpts
Codicological information
Material
vellum
Table of contents
Legend
Texts

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Irish manuscripts

Sources

Notes

1.
George Stephens, Förteckning öfver de förnämsta brittiska och fransyska handskrifterna uti Kongl. bibliotheket i Stockholm (1847): 18–19.
2.
Ludwig Christian Stern, ‘Die irische Handschrift in Stockholm’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 1 (1897).
3.
George Stephens, Förteckning öfver de förnämsta brittiska och fransyska handskrifterna uti Kongl. bibliotheket i Stockholm (1847): 18–19.
4.
Ludwig Christian Stern, ‘Die irische Handschrift in Stockholm’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 1 (1897).

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Concheanainn, Tomás, “A Connacht medieval literary heritage: texts derived from Cín Dromma Snechtai through Leabhar na hUidhre”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 16 (Winter, 1988): 1–40.
Mac Mathúna, Séamus, Immram Brain: Bran’s Journey to the Land of the Women, Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, 2, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1985.
CELT – edition (pp. 33–45): <link>
McKendry, Eugene, “J. G. Sparwenfeldt and Celtic linguistics in seventeenth-century Sweden”, in: David Cram, Andrew Linn, and Elke Nowak (eds), History of linguistics 1996: selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Oxford, 12–17 September 1996, vol. 1: Traditions in linguistics worldwide., Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999. 181–189.
McKendry, Eugene, “J. G. Sparwenfeldt’s contribution to Irish and Celtic material in Sweden”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 49–50 (1997): 516–531.
Stern, Ludwig Christian, “Die irische Handschrift in Stockholm”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 1 (1897): 115–118.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Stephens, George, Förteckning öfver de förnämsta brittiska och fransyska handskrifterna uti Kongl. bibliotheket i Stockholm, Stockholm, 1847.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link>
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