Manuscripts

Uppsala, Universitetsbibliotek, MS H. 248 Philippi OSulleuani Bearri ... Vindiciae Hibernicae

  • Latin
  • c.1625/6
  • Irish manuscripts

Manuscript containing an autograph copy of the Zoilomastix (c. 1625/6) by Philip O'Sullivan Beare.

Identifiers
Shelfmark
H. 248
Title
Philippi OSulleuani Bearri ... Vindiciae Hibernicae
Philippi OSulleuani Bearri Hiberni Vindiciae Hibernicae contra Giraldum Cambrensem et alios vel Zoilomastigis liber primus, 2, 3, 4 et 5 et contra Stanihurstum
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
c.1625/6
c. 1625/6
Origin, provenance
Origin: ass. with O'Sullivan Beare (Philip)
O'Sullivan Beare (Philip)
(d. 1634 or after)
Irish historian and author, of the O'Sullivans of Beare and Bantry, who lived as an exile in Spain and Portugal, following the Nine Years’ War and the Irish defeat at Kinsale. He wrote a number of Latin treatises on subjects of Irish interest.

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Later provenance: SpainSpain
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SwedenSweden
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ass. with Sparwenfeldt (J. G.)
Sparwenfeldt (J. G.)
(d. 1727)
No short description available

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The manuscript was acquired in Madrid in 1690 by the Swedish antiquary and diplomat J. G. Sparwenfeld. The work was considered lost until it was brought to light at Carolina Rediviva in 1932 (see McKendry and O'Donnell).
Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:
Hand Philip O'Sullivan BeareO'Sullivan Beare (Philip)
(d. 1634 or after)
Ó Súilleabháin Béirre (Pilib)
Irish historian and author, of the O'Sullivans of Beare and Bantry, who lived as an exile in Spain and Portugal, following the Nine Years’ War and the Irish defeat at Kinsale. He wrote a number of Latin treatises on subjects of Irish interest.
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The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

Sources

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.

[ed.] OʼDonnell, Thomas J. [ed.], Selections from the Zoilomastix of Philip O'Sullivan Beare, Dublin: Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1960.

Secondary sources (select)

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.
187ff
McKendry, Eugene, “J. G. Sparwenfeldt’s contribution to Irish and Celtic material in Sweden”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 49–50 (1997): 516–531.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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October 2013, last updated: November 2022