G 300

Brehon Laws (translation)

19th cent. Paper. 29 × 18 cms. [iv] + 84 ff. Scribe: Edward O'Reilly (unsigned). Bound in green boards with `Brehon Law' in ink and `10265' labelled on spine. `Vol. 2d / Translation of part of the Brehon Laws', `Phillipps MS 10265', `813' and excerpt from O'Reilly's sale-catalogue on p. i. one-time outer cover. Listed under `Ex Bibl Denley' in Phillipps's Catalogus. Purchased by the National Library from Sotheby (lot 241) for 18s. 29 June 1936.

The volume contains, in numbered paragraphs / sections on the recto, an English version of such of those fragments of the Laws as are in TCD MSS 1433 and 1316. Indications are, however, that the manuscript used for this version may have been RIA 23 Q 11, Maurice O'Gorman's transcript of the Trinity manuscripts, made at the request of Charles Vallancey, e.g. see the name `Vallancey' on f. 55 of the present manuscript and cf. Vallancey's note on 23 Q 11, p. 83, with the present scribe's `End of first fragment' on f. 70. The opening words only of the Irish text, also numbered, are on the verso of the present manuscript with references to `ON' and `ORe' following. Ff. 53 v-54 r are blank and ff. 81v-84 v contain an `Index to the two volumes'.