Manuscripts
Results gathered for Annals of Ulster
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 574
rubric: Annales Ultonienses... Copy based on that in Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1282, running up to AD 665, with a translation into Latin as far as AD 491. Written by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh? A note on p.430, prefixed to the transcript, reads: “Sequentia Latine scripta, charactere vero Hibernico, sunt excerpta ex annalibus Ultoniensibus. Confer Usserii Primordia, p. 855 (edit. 4o), cum his Annalibus, p. 436, ad A.D. 444. Confer etiam Warei Scriptores cum p. 442 horum Annalium ad ann. 467 et 468 et ailibi” (Mc Carthy, Annála Uladh, vol. 4, xi-xii).
p. 431–
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 574
Copy of H up to AD 665, with a translation into Latin as far as AD 491. Written by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh? Mac Carthy and Hennessy, vol. IV, pp. xi-xii.
ff. 431–514
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1282
There is a marginal note which is barely legible today but comparison with earlier transcripts, in TCD 574 (17th century) and in Hennessy's edition (vol. 1, p. 2), allows for a reconstructed reading: IHC / Mei est incipere, Dei est finire, where Hennessy reads tui for Dei. See Evans, p. 10 and esp. n. 61. Variations of the formula in the second line (‘Mine it is to begin, it is to God to finish’) occur in other manuscripts. Evans accepts the note as evidence for the Annals of Ulster beginning on this page and being quite separate from the preceding annals. Mc Carthy objects that the note is a later addition by H2 rather than the work of the main scribe (Medieval Review, Oct 2004).
f. 16r–
