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Grammar; Verse; Tales

18th cent. Paper. 23 × 17 cms. iv + 496 pp. Scribal pagination. Scribe: Muiris Ó Gromáin (unsigned).

Bound in white vellum with marbled endpapers, `O Flaherty's Irish Grammar' in gold and `291' and `23458' labelled on spine; bookplate of the Earl of Moira on recto of first endpaper (now p. i), `Marquis of Hastings Sale Dec. 1868' and `Nc' on verso of first endpaper (now p. ii), `(No. 2)' and `Phillipps MS 23458' on p. iii. Listed under `Ex Bibl. Miscellanei' in Phillipps's Catalogus.

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ii `An Clar.' List of contents with English version (`The Index') on opposite page (p. iii).

1 `An Irish Grammar composed by the Reverend Father Cornelius O'Flaherty, Lector to the Irish College in Rome, a Lover of Learning, and a wellwisher of his Country.' On vowels, consonants, dipthongs, initial mutations and contractions. `Finit.'

33 `Toireadh na hÉireann ar na chumadh re Seáan Ó Conuill o Chundáe Chíarruidhe.' An úair a smaoínim air shaoíthibh na hÉireann. 123 stt. `Finit.'

61 Eachtra Chonaill Gulban. Beg. Rígh úasal oirnidhe, ríoghdha rathmhur réimdhireach ... dar dubh comhainm Níall Naoíghíallach mhic Eochaidh ... mhic Cuinn Chédchathaidh. Ends (p. 252) air Magh Cailín, agus ó na shliocht go bráth. Gonadh é eachtra Chonaill Gulbain mhic Néill Naoíghiallaidh go nuige sin. `Finit.'

253 Eachtra Ridire na leómhan sunn. Beg. Ridire rathmhur, rochonáigh, foisdionach ... ro ghabh flaithios, forba, ┐ fearann isan bhFraing feacht naill darbho comhainm Don Cláro. Ends (p. 496) agus gach gábhadh dar fhuilingeadar fris an rée sin. Gurab í sin Eachtra Ridire na Leomhan co nuige sin.