G 89

Sanas Cormaic

19th cent. Paper. 32 × 20.5 cms. 172 numbered pages copiously interleaved. There is neither scribal signature nor date; watermark 1837. From a comparison made with the handwriting of well-known scribes of the period this hand is apparently closer to that of Eugene O Curry's (cf. G 289 below) or to that of his son Anthony (cf. BL Add. 28,259). The hand of the English translation in pencil alongside the text is unidentified. The pagination is modern. The text, which is glossed, appears to have been ultimately derived from the YBL copy (ed. Meyer, Anecdota from Irish MSS IV), but the additional explanations of several words from such sources as O'Clery's Glossary, O'Reilly's Dictionary, as well as comments (in Irish and English) by Peter O'Connell and Theophilus O'Flanagan from O'Connell's transcript of the Glossary, BL Add. 38,257 (see pp. 22, 44, 76, 84, 113-15, 118, 123 etc. of present manuscript).

Bound in half-leather with `Sanasan Chormaic. Cormac's Glossary of Antient Irish Words & with an English Translation' and elephant on crown in gilt on spine. Sir William Betham's book-plate is labelled and `Phillipps MS 13282' written inside front cover; the number `CIX' (of the Betham collection) on recto of third unnumbered page.

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1 [Sanas Cormaic] Beg. A. Adam i.e. homo terrigena o'n talmhuidheacht vel truncus .i. tamhan .i. adamh .i. dámh (ratio). Ends (p. 172) Uibne ... co ndernae suibne de.