Manuscripts

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.37 Book of the Dean of Lismore (Leabhar Deathan Lios Mòir)

Scottish Gaelic
s. xvi
Scottish manuscripts

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

Scotland Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland

Shelfmark

72.1.37

Title

Book of the Dean of Lismore (Leabhar Deathan Lios Mòir)

Type

duanairí Scottish Gaelic poetry vernacular Irish verse

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Scottish Gaelic

Date

s. xvi

16th century

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

Palaeographical information

Script

Category: secretary hand

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.

Scottish manuscripts

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.

[dig. img.] “National Library of Scotland”, 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, 1999–present. URL: <https://www.isos.dias.ie/libraries/NLS/english/index.html>.

direct link

[ed.] MacLauchlan, Thomas [ed. and tr.], The Dean of Lismore’s Book: a selection of ancient Gaelic poetry from a manuscript collection made by James M’Gregor, dean of Lismore, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, Edinburgh, 1862.

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Secondary sources (select)

Mackinnon, Donald, A descriptive catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, and elsewhere in Scotland, Edinburgh: Brown, 1912.

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