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O'Brien's Grammar

19th cent. Paper. 15.5 × 10 cms. 88 ff. This (ff. 1-71) is a copy of Paul O'Brien's Practical Grammar of the Irish Language (Dublin 1809), written in Belfast in 1817 (ff. 17r, 67v) by an unidentified scribe. A few pages are missing at the beginning of themanuscript, the text here opening with the `Mutable Consonants' corresponding to p. 7 of the printed work. Ff. 72 to end of manuscript also contain grammatical material: phonolgy, f. 72; lists of (i) `Familiar words of one syllable', f. 74v, (ii) `Familiar words of two syllables', f. 76v, (iii) `Familiar words of three syllables', f. 79, (iv) `Familiar words of four syllables', f. 80; declensions and genders of nouns, f. 80v; lists of `Familiar phrases' in the (i) `Imperative', f. 85, (ii) `Interrogative', f. 86v, (iii) `Negative', f. 88.

Bound in blue cloth with marbled endpapers and `Irish Grammar' gilt-lettered on spine. Leaves have been torn out before ff. 72, 81, 82. Joly ms 7.