G 179

Miscellaneous

18th cent. Paper. 21.5 × 15.5 cms (maximum). 8 pp. The manuscript consists of four separate leaves of different dimensions with a paper cover (19 × 14.5 cms.) written by four scribes: (a) Rev. Seadhan Ua Briain pp. 1-2, (b) unidentified, p. 3 (p. 4 blank), (c) Tadhg Ó Neachtuin (unsigned), pp. 5-6, (d) Richard Tipper (unsigned), pp. 7-8 (scribal 25-6).

Bound in yellow boards with `25321' and `a 64.785' on recto of front cover; `576 Monk Mason MSS' on recto of front paper cover; `John O'Bryen' (stamped), `Phillipps MS 25321' and scribblings on p. 1, G 178 above was at one time included in the present manuscript (see `2 Irish Grammar Vocabulary and Poems' on p. 1). Not listed in Phillipps's Catalogus.

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1 The following: (a) `Seadhan Ua Briain subhuidhe dílis an leabhair. san Easpáin a ríoghchathair na Heasbaile aniu an treas lá do January san mbliaghuin daois an Tighearna 1742/3'. (b) `An 15d lá don Bheiltine .i. Domhnach Cincíse an Spioraid Naomhtha do ghlacus an cheidchéim dona grádhaibh coisreaga ón Easbocc Ua Seachnusaigh a cCill Chuine, et Dia Mairt tar a chionn an 17d don mhídh chéadhna et san fhéil naomhtha riomhráite do hóirneadh mé (ge neimhdhiongmhalta) a ccéim oirdheirc na na [sic] naomhshagairtiocht, et air an 19d don mhídh mhadramhuil .i. July tar a chion do thiodhliocas ar ttús a naoimhiodbairt do dhearlaic ar Slánaightheoir mar shithseoltacht tair sgáth an chine daonna don Athair síoruidhe san chrann chéasda do réimhfhioghra an iodhbairt arainfhíonda Mheilchizedech.

San mbliaghuin daois an Tighearna 1741'.

2 The following: `Defect of the R Kalendar / January 16th S. Fulgentius Episcopus & Confessor'. Remainder of page blank.

3 Micheál Ó Cleire. Foclóir nó Sanasán Nuadh (fragment). Dedication and opening lines of Address to the Reader (`Do chum an léaghthora'). Breaks off with end of page. P. 4 blank.

5 Asaontadh críche claoidh in fhuinn / a nÉirinn mar deirghe eadruinn / cobhair coigcridh iarrann an fann / naghaidh cara agas cumman. 19 qq.

7 Fragment of homily on life of Christ. Beg. here agus is doghrainnigh ina sin a theacht aisde uair do bhí Se beag. Breaks off end of p. 8 with ┐ do innis Ioseph nar gluais leis as an ccathraigh ┐ nach fhidir nach faréisi do bhí; adubhairt sisi do.