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Results gathered for Cáin Adomnáin

MS

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 2324-2340 

rubric: Incipit Cain Adamnain ar slict senlibuir Ratha Bothae   See Kuno Meyer, Cáin Adamnáin: an Old-Irish treatise on the law of Adamnan (1905): vii–viii (preface). According to the colophon at the end of f. 82v, this copy derives from an exemplar written by Cú Mumhan mac Tuathail Í Clerigh, a cousin of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (‘Asna duilleocaib doscrioph Cumumhan mac Tuatail i Clerig, doscriobhad an beccan so. a tigh na mbrathar ag Drobaois. 31 do marta. 1627’, ed. Meyer, ibidem, p. 32). The incipit (f. 76r) states that the ultimate source of the text is a manuscript referred to as the ‘old book of Raphoe’.

f. 76r–f. 82v

Text

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 2324-2340 

Copy written by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh.

ff. 76r–82v  

Text

Lebor Rátha Bothae 

Manuscript belonging to the monastery of Ráith Both (Raphoe, Co. Donegal), now lost. In the exemplar of the Brussels MS below, it was apparently acknowledged as a source.

MS

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/I (ff. 101-122, 1-36, 45-52) 

“The Law of Adomnán”

f. 48r–f. 51v

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/I (ff. 101-122, 1-36, 45-52) 

Ends abruptly.

ff. 48ra–51va (line 9)