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Group of pedigrees of the Déisi Muman, possibly of 8th-century origin, in Irish genealogical tracts.

Manuscript witnesses

Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 
Here part of a composite genealogical section.
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 
context:    incipit: ...m. Cobhtaig m. Aeda m. Fintain   incl. Déisi genealogies (L-group)   Fragment of a genealogical tract, of which the beginning is missing. Page partly illegible. The tract begins in the middle of Déisi pedigrees corr. to LL p. 327g. Incl., in the third column, pedigrees of the Uí Fer nGair.
in section: f. 1(24)r
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 
Incomplete (first words missing) and partly illegible. Thornton observes the presence of some additional material in this version.
f. 1(24)r  
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 
rubric: Genelach na nDési   incipit: Faelchad. Dunchad. Dub Tire. tri mc Eogain mc Bregduilb   incl. Bran Find Femin   Sections: (a) headed Duli slontib na nDési, incl. on pp. 327g-328h, poem beg. Bran Find Femin; (b) headed Nunc .h. Rosa; (c) headed Nunc .h. Fhir Gair; (d) headed Nunc .h. Oengusa.
in section: p. 327g–p. 328e
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 
Here incl. the poem Bran Find Femin.
ff. 327g–328e.60  

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[dipl. ed.] OʼSullivan, Anne [ed.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983. xv + pp. 1327-1708.
CELT – pp. 1327–1595 (excl. pp. 1596–1708): <link>
1426 ff LL version.
[ed.] OʼBrien, M. A. [ed.], Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1962.  
comments: Reprinted in 1976 and 2005, with an introduction by J. V. Kelleher.
CELT – pp. 1–332 (Rawl. B 502): <link>
394 ff Based on LL, with variants from Lec. and BB.
[ed.] Pender, Séamus, Déssi genealogies: with an appendix of historical references, Dublin: Stationary Office, 1937.
Irishmanuscripts.ie – PDF: <link>
Based on the Lec. version.

Secondary sources (select)

Thornton, David E., Kings, chronologies, and genealogies: studies in the political history of early medieval Ireland and Wales, Prosopographica et Genealogica, 10, Oxford: Linacre College, Unit for Prosopographical Research, 2003.
121 ff