Texts
Lebor gabála Érenn (Míniugud)
Incoming data
An abbreviated recension of Lebor gabála Érenn, known as the Miniugud recension. In the manuscripts, it is usually found as an appendix to Recension II.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2
Incomplete. Macalister's siglum μΛ (or M).
ff. 16v–21 (facsimile)
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D v 1
A manuscript that is thought to belong originally to the Yellow Book of Lecan, where the text would have followed Recension II. Miniugud covers the entire volume. Macalister's siglum μY.
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D i 3/a
Fragment which belongs with RIA MSS D v 1 and D iv 1.
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
incipit: Do rochair tra Sirna Sirsaeglach mac Dein m. Demail la Rothechtaid Rotha mac Moen incl. Cimbáeth no chinned cech cáin, Failet sunna eter dá fhert, Mac Echach ard orddan Acephalous. Fragment of the Míniugud-recension of Lebor gabála Érenn, containing part of the tract on pre-Christian kings of Ireland known as De fhlaithiusaib Érenn = CGH 117-122 ~ R. A. S. Macalister, Lebor gabála Érenn: The book of the taking of Ireland, vol. 5 (1942): 240–281 (§§ 525–561). One of the sectons is headed Gen. Cimbaeda (f. 74rb.9ff). Incl. verse: (a) beg. Cimbaeth no chinnedcech cain (6qq), anonymous (inde dicitur); (b) beg. Failet sunna eter da fhert (1q), attrib. to Cú Chulainn (Cu Chulainn dicebat); (c) Mac Echach ard orddan (3qq), attr. to Cormac (Unde Cormac hoc carmen cecinit).
in section: f. 74r(135)a.1–
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
Fragment: §§ 525-561.
pp. 135a.1–136b.34 (facsimile)
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/III (ff. 75B-100, 37-44)
Macalister's siglum μR.
ff. 90v–97r
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/III (ff. 75B-100, 37-44)
rubric: Miniugad gabal nErenn ⁊ a senchas ⁊ a remmend rigraide innso sis [...] ut dicunt historici incipit: Hybernia insola possita est in occidente sicut Adae Paradissus So-called Míniugud recension of Lebor gabála Érenn. Breaks off and continues, after loss of what Ó Cuív estimates to be one leaf, on f. 97. Old foliation: 21-27 (corresponding to ff. 90-96), 28 (missing), 29 (97).
f. 90vb.14–
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/III (ff. 75B-100, 37-44)
incl. Ríg hÉrenn iar creitim (Míniugud king-list) Concludes with a king-list headed Rig hErenn iar creitim, listing kings from Loegaire to Ruaidri Ua Conchobair with their regnal years (ff. 97rba.19-37, 97rbb.19-37, and 97vaa.l-19), which is discussed by Scowcroft (1987): 132-133.
in section: f. 97ra.1–
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.
[ed.] [tr.] Macalister, R. A. S., Lebor gabála Érenn: The book of the taking of Ireland, 5 vols, Irish Texts Society, 34, 35, 39, 41, 44, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1932–1942.
In his 1987 article, Scowcroft mentions that Rolf Baumgarten (1936–2012) had completed an edition of this recension (unpublished).
Secondary sources (select)
Carey, John (ed.), Lebor gabála Érenn: textual history and pseudohistory, Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series, 20, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 2009.
Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part I: the growth of the text”, Ériu 38 (1987): 79–140.
comments: The second part is Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II”, Ériu 39 (1988).
Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II: the growth of the tradition”, Ériu 39 (1988): 1–66.
comments: This article continues Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part I”, Ériu 38 (1987).
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>
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