Manuscripts

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 6131-6133 Leabhar inghine Uí Dhomhnuill

  • Irish
  • s. xvii1
  • Irish manuscripts
  • paper
Early seventeenth-century Irish poem-book, thought to have been compiled on behalf of Nualaidh, daughter of Aodh mac Maghnusa Uí Dhomhnaill.
Identifiers
Shelfmark
6131-6133
Title
Leabhar inghine Uí Dhomhnuill

Or in English, ’The book of O’Donnell’s daughter’.

Type
duanairí
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xvii1
early 17th century, or first half.
Origin, provenance
Origin: Louvain, St Anthony's College
Louvain, St Anthony’s College

Irish Franciscan college founded in 1607 by Flaithrí Ó Maoil Chonaire and Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil.


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ass. with Ní Dhomhnaill (Nualaidh)
Ní Dhomhnaill (Nualaidh)
Irish noblewoman belonging to the Ó Domhnaill family, daughter of Aodh (mac Maghnusa) and sister of Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill.

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Irish Franciscan College in Louvain.
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
Material
paper
quarto
Table of contents
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Sources

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[dig. img.] “Royal Library of Belgium”, Anne-Marie OʼBrien, and Pádraig Ó Macháin, Irish Script on Screen (ISOS) – Meamrám Páipéar Ríomhaire, Online: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2019–present. URL: <https://www.isos.dias.ie/collection/rlb.html>.
[dig. img.] Belgica, Online: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 2012–present. URL: <http://belgica.kbr.be>.

Secondary sources (select)

Walsh, Paul, “The Book of O Donnell's daughter”, in: Paul Walsh (ed.), Irish men of learning: studies, Dublin: Three Candles, 1947. 179–205.
Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “A collection of poems on the O'Donnells”, Ériu 4 (1908–1910): 183–190.
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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April 2015, last updated: August 2023