Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 615 Saltair Choluim Chille
- Irish
- s. xvi1
- Irish manuscripts
- vellum
A collection of medieval Irish verse, mainly of a religious nature, containing about 150 poems that are either attributed to Colum Cille or that relate to the saint in some other way.
See more Ulster
See more ass. with Ó Dochartaigh familyÓ Dochartaigh family
See more The references to Ó Dochartaigh (pp. 138, 139) suggest the possibility that “an Ó Dochartaigh Lord of Inishowen had possession of the manuscript for a time in the early seventeenth century” (Ó Cuív).
See more Ulster
See more ass. with Carew (George)
See more George Carew obtained the manuscript, perhaps in 1611 when he visited Donegal, having been commissioned to report on the plantation of Ulster. See William and Annne O’Sullivan (1971).
See more In 1636, the MS was donated to Oxford University.
According to Ó Cuív, the manuscript is largely the work of a single scribe who “wrote a clear regular hand but whose writing shows changes of pen and ink”. There is no signature or attribution and the hand remains unidentified.
According to Ó Cuív, a second, unidentified scribe, who may have assisted the main scribe, writes “a similar regular hand which can be seen, for instance, on pp. 10.16–19.3, p. 101.16–23, p. 103.1–16, and p. 129.1–9”.
Ó Cuív notes that a number of later scribes have inserted additional items on spaces that were left blank by the main scribe, e.g. on pp. 48, 129, 135, 137, and 139, or on blank pages, e.g. on p. 140. Likewise, several headings to poems or additions to existing headings and marginal ascriptions are in distinct hands. Ó Cuív has tried to differentiate between some of them.
In the middle of p. 129, an additional hand inserts a poem beg. Cúghaire do chúalamar and concludes with a signature in which the scribe identifies himself as Eóghan Carrach Ó Siaghail: Misi Eoghan Carrach O Siagail do scrib.
Eoghan Carrach Ó SiaghailÓ Siaghail (Eoghan Carrach)See more Specimens (IIIF):
The prayers on pp. 139 and 140 are in the same hand. That on p. 139 is accompanied by a signature in which he identifies himself as Brian Ó Siaghail. The script, according to Ó Cuív, “is particularly good and each item in his hand begins with a highly decorative initial A”.
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Aodh Ó SiaghailÓ Siaghail (Aodh)
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An unidentified hand was responsible for the poem beg. Dlighidh coire cnáimh (pp. 1-2), in which Uaitéar Mac Suibhne receives thanks for lending the manuscript to the poem’s author. The reference to Mac Suibhne allows one to date the poem and the hand that wrote it to “either at the end of the sixteenth century or early in the seventeenth” (Ó Cuív).
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Sources
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Eleanor Knott mentioned in Ériu 18 (1958), p. 77, that she was preparing an edition of the collection, but did not manage to publish such a work.
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