G 202

Verse

19th cent. Paper. 18.5 × 15 cms. [ii] + 48 pp. The scribe, Miochal Mac Gioll Pátruig (p. 48), wrote the text in Roman script while using the Gaelic one for sub-headings only.

Bound in cloth with marbled endpapers and `Religious Poem' gilt-lettered on spine; the no. `8' and an arithmetical sum on p. [1] and `From Mr. M. Hare' (cf. G 184 above) on p. 1. Comyn ms 21.

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1 `Tracht air la an bhreathabhnais agus air na comharthuide thiocfas roimhe.' Nior thug an tAthair da aingiolaihb [sic] disle. 193* stt. with the following sub-headings: stanzas 105-122 headed `Do phíantaibh Ifirion an so síos' and beg. (p. 26) Biaidh le glaca na gcarranaibh ciordhubh; stanza 123-129 headed `A chonntrail seo don anam beannaighthe aig glacadh a chlidh uime' and beg. (p. 31) Adearfadh le luthghar an tsolais roimhe sin; stanzas 130-134 headed `cómhradh an bhreithiomh' and beg. (p. 33) Tagaig fe shean adearfa an Righ cheart; stanzas 135-193* headed `Do ghlóire fhlaitheamhnuis an so síos' and beg. (p. 34) Tiucfa dfoillsiugha comhachta is gloire Iosa. `Fóircheann glóire fhlathabnuis le Miochal Mac Gioll Pátruig [partly cancelled] ┐ go seallabhuighmidne na flathuis ceadna tri Iosa Criost ar Tiagharna. Bioch mar sin. Finis.' Followed (p. 48) by the alphabet in Gaelic and Roman script and two quatrains: Eist le comhra dhuine ghlic; Glic do reir an thseanfhocail.