Texts

Orait do Moelmhuiri mac Ceileachair

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A marginal note added to Lebor na hUidre (RIA 23 E 25 p. 37b) in 1345 on the occasion when parts of the manuscripts were restored where the ink had faded. The note suggests that at this time, the manuscript was in Connacht.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25

pp. 37a.24–37b.20

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25

incipit: ORAIT do Moelmhuiri mac Ceileachair. “A prayer for Máel Muire mac Célechair”. The author is presumably by Sigraid Úa Cuirrndín/Curnín, who according to the note, restored parts of the manuscript where the ink had faded.

p. 37b.21–p. 37b.36

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Best, Richard Irvine, and Osborn Bergin [eds.], Lebor na hUidre: Book of the Dun Cow, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1929.

CELT – edition (pp. 1-338): <link> Internet Archive: <link>

89 lines 2764–2773 (text); x (translation)

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Concheanainn, Tomás, “Textual and historical associations of Leabhar na hUidhre”, Éigse 29 (1996): 65–120.

Walsh, Paul, “Restoration of LU, 1380”, The Catholic Bulletin 29 (November, 1939): 732–736.