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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 26 (479) = Book of Fenagh (Leabhar Fidnacha)

1516

Texts (1)
References (8)

Herbert, Máire, “Medieval collections of ecclesiastical and devotional materials: Leabhar Breac, Liber Flavus Fergusiorum and the Book of Fenagh”, in: Bernadette Cunningham, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, and Petra Schnabel (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009. 33–43.

Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie, “Muirgheas Ó Maoilchonaire of Cluain Plocáin: an early sixteenth-century Connacht scribe at work”, Studia Hibernica 35 (2008–2009): 17–43.

Simms, Katharine, “The Donegal poems in the Book of Fenagh”, Ériu 58 (2008): 37–53.

“Royal Irish Academy”, 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/collection/ria.html>.

“MS 23 P 26 (The Book of Fenagh)”

Mac Donncha, Frederic, “Páis agus aisérí Chríost in LB agus in LS 10”, Éigse 21 (1986): 170–193.

Macalister, R. A. S. [ed.], The Book of Fenagh: a supplementary volume, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1939.

Irishmanuscripts.ie: <link>

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Results for Book (171)

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 27 = part of Llyfr Coch Talgarth (Red Book of Talgarth)

Welsh manuscript collection of religious texts, mainly in the hand of Hywel Fychan. Other parts of the original manuscript are in Peniarth MS 12 and Cardiff MS 3.242.

c.1400
Hywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 55 = Book of Dr. John David Rhys

Welsh paper manuscript miscellany (268 pp.) in the hand of John David Rhys containing Welsh poetry as well as a vocabulary, a bardic grammar of the Dafydd Ddu recension, the so-called statutes of Gruffudd ap Cynan, a translation of Genesis I, items of biblical and historical interest, etc.

c.1579
John David Rhys

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 117

Not yet published.

1544-1552

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 120

Not yet published.

c.1607

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 3043B

A late 16th-century transcript of the White Book of Rhydderch

s. xvi^ex

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 7006D = Llyfr Du Basing (Black Book of Basingwerk)

s. xv²
Gutun Owain

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 17110E = Book of Llandaff (Liber Landavensis)

The Book of Llandaff is one of the oldest manuscripts of Wales. While its core is a gospelbook containing a copy of St Matthew’s Gospel, it is best known for its many substantial additions in the form of the Lives of St Elgar and St Samson, and various documents (such as charters) relating to the see of Llandaff and to bishops Dyfrig, Teilo and Euddogwy.

s. xii¹

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 1 = Black Book of Carmarthen (Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin)

A collection of early Welsh poetry, including religious poems, praise poems and elegies.

c. 1250
Black Book of Carmarthen scribe

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 2 = Book of Taliesin (Llyfr Taliesin)

s. xiv¹
Book of Taliesin scribe

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 4 = Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, part 2

c. 1350
Hywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch