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Ó Cléirigh's Leabhar Gabhála

18th cent. Paper. 29.5 × 19 cms. 160 pp. (scribal 1-4 + [i], 4-89 + [i], 90- 153 with 146 repeated + [iii]. Scribe: Brian Ó Conchubhair `i Maille Árd a cCoundae Cláir', 1753 (pp. 4, 92).

Bound in green half-vellum with `23130' labelled on spine. `No. 8' and `Phillipps MS 23130' inside front cover. The following by a former owner occurs on recto of front endpaper: `N McC / is e so a leabhar fein / 17 April 1787' (with attempted cancelling of initials and date). A few lines of writing probably by this owner inside front cover have been lines of writing probably by this owner inside front cover have been cancelled. `Leabhar Gabhala / or Book of Conquests' on verso of front endpaper. Listed under `Miscellaneous MSS.' in Phillipps's Catalogus.

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1 [Leabhar Gabhála]. Ó Cléirigh recension but with fewer poems etc. than in the version contained in 23 K 32. Preceded by Preface. Address to the Reader (p. 7) and approbationes of Dr. Proinnsias Macraith and Flann Mac Aodhagáin (p. 10). Text itself headed (p. 12) `Do Ghabhala Eireann síosanná. Do Ghabháil Ceasra ceadus' beg. Ceasáir trá ingean Beatha mhic Naoi. Ends (p. 157) with quatrain Buailtear airgead na righe róin. `Finis Amen.' This copy agrees exactly with that in D iii 3 (Scribe:Eochaidh Ua Heodhusuidhe, 1647). For other copies see G 168 above.

92 The following scribal colophon with crudely decorated surround and six `IHS': `Ag so leabhar Briain Uí Chonchubhair mic Díarmudda mic Brían mic mic [sic] Dounnachcha mic Diarmadd[a] agus do bhí diaois deirrithair ag Diarmuid sin dar bhainnim dhóibh Michaell agus Pattraic: agus do bhí dís deirrafuir aga ┐ bó dhé a nainm sin Norra ┐ Brid ┐ bó dhe annim á mat[har] Nórra Ní bhe Clainnacaoí: ┐ bo hé ait connathei dhóibh so im Mhaille Árd á cCountte Chláre: laimh lé Caithir Mannanne agus lái[mh] lé Coirrí Fínn: October 20th 1753 / October an ficheú la 1753 / Atá sgriobha annso síos dobriccaill ar gach áon do leafadh an leabhar so giuigh go duirrachtach lé hannam an te ar leis é agus ré hannamna á síonsir agus do bearramidni beannacht dhillis Dé do gach naoin do deannais so. an ficheú la do Octobar 1753'. An almost similar scribal colophon dated `July 25th 1753' occurs on p. 4. 158-9 Blank.

160 Gaóil na Muimneach flathach feoil mhuir feastach fíonmhuir daoindhach moirghálach. 1 st.