G 60

Miscellaneous

18th-19th cent. Paper. Binding 21.10 × 17.5 cms.; 17ff. of various dimensions, some folded; paginated 1-37. This is a collection of fragments bound together. Five different hands occur, of which only two are identified: Seon Mac Solaidh (pp. 17-18) and Edward O'Reilly (pp. 27-37). The watermark in the paper used by two of the unidentified scribes contains the Arms of Hanover (pp. 5, 24) and the word Donnybrook (p. 9). The fragment in Mac Solaidh's hand has a scribal pagination (pp. 89-90) but it has been bound in reverse here. Pp. 27-34 of the fragment in O'Reilly's hand are written in pencil. The different fragments contain separate pagination (all in pencil with the exception of Mac Solaidh's, which is in ink), but a more recent pencilled pagination has been adopted in this catalogue. The ms. is bound in boards, the binder inserting one blank leaf after the front cover and another before the back cover, and the words Extracts from the Annals of Ulster by O'Reilly are written on the spine. Phillipps acquired this ms. from the O'Reilly collection (see Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum, Phillipps, no. 10287), but it does not bear any shelf or catalogue no. of that collection, nor is it catalogued by O'Reilly in his ms. cat. now R.I.A. 23 H 1.

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1 Duan an Amadain Mhóir. Beg. Sgeul uaigneach do chualus gan bhréig, 68 qq.

6 Tuireadh Mhurchaidh Crúis. Beg. A theampuill bfurus duit cuidiúgh le Gaoídhaluibh, 171 ll. + 1 st. of "annálach" which is repeated (p. 13) in Roman letters. See note by Flower, B.M. ii, p. 137.

14-16 Blank.

17-18 (in Seon Mac Solaidh's hand). Fragment of a tract on Irish Grammar. The fragment here treats (imperfectly) of the elision of vowels (Don bhathadh gutha p. 18).

19 Blank.

20-21 (transverse) Tracht ar Laoidhe na Gaisge. Beg. Lá dá raibh Páttraig ag adhradh Dé san uaigneas, do chúaidh Oisín mic (sic) Finn gnuig é ┐ do chuir Pháttraig fáilte roimhe. Ossianic tale.

22 Blank.

23-25 Annalistic. List of obits. Dates range from A.D. 1287-1492.

26 Blank.

27-37 (in E. O'Reilly's hand). Extracts from the Annals of Tigernach, the Annals of Connaught and the Annals of Ulster.