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Life of St. Finbarr

19th cent. Paper. 20.5 × 17 cms. [6] + 71 pp. with scribal pagination + 33 (blank), with fly-leaf at front and at back. Margins ruled; ornamental capitals in Irish section. Scribe: Pádraic Stúndún (Patrick Stanton), Cork 1894 (pp. 1, 71). See Cat. Ir. Mss Franciscan Library Killiney, p. 97, for information on other copies of this Life made by the present scribe. Bound in rexine. Note on first blank leaf: `Bequeathed to the Celtic Association, 97, Stephen's Green Dublin by the late Rev. Maxwell Close M.A.' and on the second `Séamus Ua Casaide 14.ix.1911'. Ó Casaide ms 52.

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1 Title-page: `Beatha Naoimh Fionnbáirr tógtha ó mhacleabhar leósgrafaighthe, macsamhail láimhsgríbhinne an bhráthar Micheál Ó Cléirigh ... 1629. Aithsgríobhtha lé Pádraic Stúndún a cCorcaigh, Lúghnasa, A.D. 1894.'

2 `The following Life of Saint Finbarr was obtained by the Revd. P. Hurley P.P. of Inchigeela .... Now transcribed and translated by Patrick Stanton, Cork, August A.D. 1894.'

3 Beatha Bharrae ó Chorcaigh. Cap. 1 beg. Mobarri din do Chonnachtaibh, do íarccenél do chlannaibh Bhríain Mc. Eachaidh. Ends (p. 32) with transcription of Br Mícheál Ó Cléirigh's colophon, dated Cork, 24 June 1629.

33 `The Life of Barry of Cork. Translated by P. Stanton Chapter first.' Beg. A man (named) Barry a Connaughtman, a descendant from the tribal offspring of Brian, son of Eachadh. Ends (p. 71) with `Note - The foregoing translation is as literal as the change of idioms would allow./Patrick Stanton, Elmgrove Terrace, Ever green, Cork. A.D. 1894.'