Manuscripts
Manuscript:
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.37 = Book of the Dean of Lismore (Leabhar Deathan Lios Mòir)
- s. xvi
Innes, Sìm, “Gaelic religious poetry in Scotland: the Book of the Dean of Lismore”, in: Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, and Robert Armstrong (eds), Christianities in the early modern Celtic world, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 111–123.
abstract:
Towards the end of a bardic poem on St Katherine of Alexandria we are presented with a curious list of Gaelic saints, including a stanza on St Brigit, in which she is described as ‘Brighid Éireann agus Alban, ógh na n-oiléan’ (‘Brigit of Ireland and Scotland, Virgin of the Isles’). The bardic poem is anonymous but the sources for the poem rather fittingly include both a Gaelic manuscript from Ireland and a Gaelic manuscript from Scotland. These manuscripts are both dated to the early sixteenth century and are Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne (Dublin, Royal Irish Academy MS 24 P 25) and the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Edinburgh, NLS MS Adv. 72.1.37). The way in which St Brigit is here described is suggestive of a later medieval pan-Gaelic piety, common to both Ireland and Gaelic Scotland. This chapter will consider if the rest of the religious poetry from the Scottish Book of the Dean of Lismore is as representative of such a pan-Gaelic piety. We will explore the context of Gaelic manuscript compilation before concentrating on the Book of the Dean’s collection of religious poetry. The main aim is to detail the poems which are found therein and investigate which poems are unique to Scotland and which are common to Scotland and Ireland. Further, since Gaelic manuscripts often show antiquarian tendencies we will also focus on when the Book of the Dean religious poetry was composed and how this impacts on our notions of later medieval piety. This chapter will conclude by introducing some of the major themes of its religious poetry.
MacGregor, Martin, “Creation and compilation: The Book of the Dean of Lismore and literary culture in late medieval Gaelic Scotland”, in: Thomas Owen Clancy, and Murray Pittock (eds), The Edinburgh history of Scottish literature, 3 vols, vol. 1: From Columba to the Union (until 1707), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 209–218.
Gillies, William, “A poem on the land of the Little People”, in: Sharon Arbuthnot, and Kaarina Hollo (eds), ‘Fil súil nglais: a grey eye looks back’: a festschrift in honour of Colm Ó Baoill, Ceann Drochaid, Perthshire: Clann Tuirc, 2007. 33–52.
Edition and English translation of a poem (18 qq) in the Book of the Dean of Lismore beg. ‘Enyt machtyr / is ma er nyilt ra milezow’, normalised in Gaelic orthography to Iongnadh m’eachtra, 's mé ar ndeaghailt ré m’fhileadhaibh.
Gillies, William, “Gaelic literature in the later middle ages: The Book of the Dean and beyond”, in: Thomas Owen Clancy, and Murray Pittock (eds), The Edinburgh history of Scottish literature, 3 vols, vol. 1: From Columba to the Union (until 1707), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 219–225.
Ó Mainnín, Mícheál B., “Gnéithe de chúlra Leabhar Dhéan Leasa Mhóir”, in: Máirtín Ó Briain, and Pádraig Ó Héalaí (eds), Téada dúchais: aistí in ómós don ollamh Breandán Ó Madagáin, Indreabhán, Conamara: Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2002. 395–422.
“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/collection/nls.html>.
Bergin, Osborn, “M'anam do sgar riomsa a-raoir”, in: Osborn Bergin, Irish bardic poetry: texts and translations, together with an introductory lecture, ed. Fergus Kelly, and David Greene, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1970. 101–103.
CELT – edition: <link>
Bergin, Osborn, “Créd agaibh aoidhigh a gcéin”, in: Osborn Bergin, Irish bardic poetry: texts and translations, together with an introductory lecture, ed. Fergus Kelly, and David Greene, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1970. 88–92.
CELT – edition: <link>
Bergin, Osborn, “Éistidh riomsa, a Mhuire mhór”, in: Osborn Bergin, Irish bardic poetry: texts and translations, together with an introductory lecture, ed. Fergus Kelly, and David Greene, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1970. 94–100.
CELT – edition: <link>
Fraser, John [ed.], and E. C. Quiggin [catalogue and indexes], Poems from the Book of the Dean of Lismore, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937.
Watson, William J., Scottish verse from the Book of the Dean of Lismore, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd for the Scottish Gaelic texts Society, 1937.
Thurneysen, Rudolf, Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert, Halle: Niemeyer, 1921.
Contents: Part 1 (chapters 1-23): Allgemeines; Part 2 (chapters 1-85): Die Ulter Sage.
Internet Archive: <link>
52 [1.18] “Das Buch des Dekans von Lismore”
MacLauchlan, Thomas [ed. and tr.], and William Forbes Skene [introd. and add. notes], 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: Edmonston & Douglas, 1862.
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A copy of the Irish catechism Lochran na gcreidmheach (1676) authored by Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh (Francis Molloy, Irish Franciscan monk of St Isidore's, Rome).
- s. xviiiex or later
