Manuscripts

General category: Irish manuscripts

Results (1201–1225/1298)
The present classification is only rudimentary. It will ultimately be replaced by a new system with greater care for data concerning each manuscript’s date, origin and provenance.
  • s. xiv
  • Mac Craith Mac an Gabhann na Scél, Ua Mathgamna Fitheal

Composite Irish manuscript consisting of three vellum sections of the 15th century and paper leaves of 17th-century date. The vellum sections contain two lengthy narratives of the Fenian tradition, Cath Finntrága and Acallam na senórach, as well as important witnesses to early Irish legal texts.

  • s. xv + s. xvii
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 487

Manuscript containing a text of Cath Finntrága.

  • s. xv
  • Finnlaech Ó Cathasaigh, Cú Choicríche Ó Maoil Chonaire
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 487
  • s. xv
  • Domhnall Óg [scribe]
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 487
  • s. xv

Irish manuscript which includes the Annals of Tigernach.

  • s. xivex-xvin + s. xvii
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 488
Not yet published.
  • s. xiv3/4
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 488
Not yet published.

Two manuscript leaves containing fragments of a set of Irish annals. The entries are mostly concerned with affairs in or relating to Connacht.

  • s. xiv
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 488
Not yet published.
  • s. xivex–xvin
  • Aughuistín Magraidhin
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 488
Not yet published.
  • s. xvii

Manuscript of the early 16th century containing the Annals of Ulster.

  • s. xviin
  • Ruaidhrí Ó Caiside [archdeacon of Clogher], Ruaidhrí Ó Luinín
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502
  • s. xiex/xiiin

17th-century paper leaves added to the manuscript (Rawlinson B 502) when the two early vellum codices were bound together.

  • s. xvii
  • James Ware

Collection of Irish saints’ Lives in Latin. It is generally taken to be an early copy of Rawlinson B 485 and since the latter is now mutilated in places, fills in a number of important gaps. The order of the Lives has been rearranged to follow the calendar of feast-days.

  • s. xivex
  • Mattheus Ó Duibhidhir, Cormac Óg Mac Muircheartaigh
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 505

An incomplete copy of the Félire Óengusso and its commentary.

  • s. xv
  • Cormac Óg Mac Muircheartaigh
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 506

Irish genealogical tracts and a copy of the Dinnshenchas Érenn

  • s. xiv (+ xvii)
  • Seáan Ó Cianáin, Anonymous [Rawl. B 506 (ff. 11r-15v)], Anonymous [Rawl. B 506 (f. 16ar)]
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 506
  • s. xiv
  • Anonymous [Rawl. B 506 (ff. 16br–62v)]
  • s. xv/xvi
  • Maelechlainn Ó Maoil Chonaire
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512
  • c. 1500
  • Conchubhar Ó Maoil Chonaire, Dubthach Ó Duibhgeannáin