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LEBOR NA HUIDRE

LEBOR NA HU1DRE

BOOK OF THE DUN COW

EDITED BY R. I. BEST and OSBORN BERGIN

PUBLISHED FOR THE

ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY

DUBLIN HODGES, FIGGIS, & CO.

LONDON: WILLIAMS & NOKGATE 1929

PREFACE

The lithographic Facsimile of Lebor na Huidre executed by Joseph O'Longan, and published by the Royal Irish Academy in 1870, having been out of print for many years, the Council decided in 192 1 to issue under our joint editorship a new edition of the ms., to be printed in Roman characters, in which the different hands, more especially the numerous interpolations to which atten- tion had recently been drawn, and which gave a new character to the ms., should be distinguished by different founts of type. The aim of the present edition is to provide not a critical text — so many of the tracts being defective owing to lacunae in the volume — but rather an accurate transcript, which will supplement the ' Fac- simile ' and present the evidence of the ms. in a more convenient form.

Some apology is necessary for the long delay that has ensued since the work was taken in hands. The task of editing, owing largely to difficulties of interpre- tation, proved more arduous and exacting than had been anticipated. The entire work, both in ms. and in proof, was collated more than once with the original by both editors, and frequent revision of the text took place. The final comparison was with the ' Facsimile,' when a number of inadmissible readings of the facsimilist, which had before been overlooked, were noted, together with

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certain inconsistencies of our own, indicated in the Introduction. We hope that it may not be found necessary to add considerably to the list of Corrigenda, which in works such as this is almost inevitable.

We desire here to express our appreciation of the skilful manner in which the University Press has seconded our efforts in the execution of this compli- cated work, so long in the press.

R. I. B. O. J. B.

Dublin, 10th February, 1929.

CONTENTS

List of Abbreviations for

works cited

viii

Introduction .

ix

Sex Aetates Mundi

I

Lebor Bretnach

7

Amra Choluim Chille

ii

Seel Tuain meic Cairill

42

Dá Brón Flatha Nime

47

Mesca Ulad

50

Táin Bó Dartada

54

Táin Bó Flidnis

55

Immram Curaig Maíle Dúin

• 58

Fís Adomnán

• 67

Scéla Laí Biátha

• 77

Scéla na Esérgi

82

Aided Nath í

90

Aided Echach meic Maíreda

95

Fotha Catha Cnucha

. IOI

Serglige Con Culainn

. 104

Senchas na Relec

. 127

Genemain Aeda Sláne .

• *33

Tucait Indarba na nDésse

U7

Táin Bó Cúailnge

. 142

Togail Bruidne Dá Derga

. 207

Fled Bricrend

. 246

Siaburcharpat Con Culaind

278

Cath Cairnd Chonaill

. 288

Comthoth Lóegairi

. 293

Fástini Airt meic Cuind .

. 296

Echtra Condla Cbaím

• 3°2

Cethri Arda in Domain .

• 305

Imram Brain meic Febail

• 306

Tochmarc Emere

• 307

•Compert Con Culaind

. 320

Tochmarc Etaíne

.

• 323

CONTENTS

Compert Mongán

Mongán 7 Aided Fothaid Airgd

Scél Mongán

Tucait Baile Mongán

Cind Erred Ulad

Corrigenda

ig

PAGE

333 334 336 337 338

339

PLATES

I. Táin Bó Cúailnge, p. 55 II. do. p. 73

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS FOR WORKS, &c, CITED

BB. = Book of Ballymote. Facsimile, 1887.

Brit. Mus. = British Museum.

Eg. = Egerton MSS. in British Museum.

FM. = Annals of the Four Masters.

Hail. = Harleian MSS.

LB. = Lebar Brecc. Facsimile, 1876.

Lc. = BookofLecan, R.I. A.

LH. = Liber Hymnorum.

LL. = Lebar Laigen, i.e. Book of Leinster. Facsimile, ii

LU. = Lebor na Huidre.

R.I. A. = Royal Irish Academy.

Rawl. = Rawlinson MSS. in Bodleian Library.

RC. = Revue Celtique.

T.C.D. = Trinity College, Dublin.

Y., YBL. = Yellow Book of Lecan. Facsimile, 1896.

ZCP. = Zeilschrift fur celtische Philolog-ie.

INTRODUCTION

THE manuscript volume known as Lebor na Huidre or Book of the Dun, so named presumably from the hide of a famous dun cow of St. Ciarán of Clonmacnois, has been in the possession of the Royal Irish Academy since 1844, when it was acquired by purchase along with a number of other MSS., 212 in all, from Messrs. Hodges & Smith of College Green. This collection had been in course of formation for many years, and was offered to the Academy in February, 1843, for a sum much below its market value, namely 1200 guineas, in order that the manuscripts might be retained in the country. Towards this the Government of the day contributed £600, Lord Adare raised ,£300, the Academy contributed £200, and private subscribers the remainder. The Catalogue of the collection, known as the Hodges & Smith collection, was compiled by Eugene O'Curry. It fills three large folio volumes, and Lebor 11a Huidre is No. 226 in the collection. Its press mark is now 23 E 25. In whose keeping this venerable manuscript was before it passed into the custody of Messrs. Hodges & Smith, is now unknown. It was in their hands at all events in 1837, when it was cited by Petrie in his famous essay on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill (R.I. A. Trans. XVIII., 1837).

Of its past history little is known beyond what is recorded in the two precatory entries in the book itself (p. 37b ; infra p. 89). In the former, made in A.D. 1345, the compilation of the book is ascribed to Mael Muire son of Célechar, whose probaiio pennae occurs on the upper margins of p. 55, where it is only partly legible : Probatio pennae Mail Muri m^zc m^z'c Cuind [na mbocht] j1 and of p. 70: Prfbatio pennae Mail Muri inso.

1 illegible.

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The two entries in question have been translated and interpreted by O'Curry in his MS. Materials of Ancient Irish History, p. 182 ff., and again in his Catalogue, reprinted in the Introduction to the Facsimile. It may be convenient, however, to give at this point a fresh rendering of them, and to recapitu- late their contents.

I. "A prayer for Mael M 11 ire son of Célechar, grandson of Conn na mBocht, who copied and searched out this book from various books. A prayer for Domnall1 son of Muirchertach son •of Domnall son of Tadg son of Brian son of Aindrias son of Brian Luignech son of Toirrdelbach Mór. It is this Domnall who ordered the restoration2 by Sigraid O Cuirrndin3 [of the work] of that same person by whom this beautiful book was written. And which is best for us, to send our blessing to the owner of this book by human lips or to leave it with him ? And it is a week from to-day to Easter Saturday, and a week from yesterday to Good Friday, and there are two golden Fridays therein, i.e. Friday of the Festival of Mary4 and Good Friday, and that is a great marvel to certain scholars."

II. "A prayer for Aed Ruad son of Niall Garb O'Donnell who carried off this book by force from the Connachtmen, and the Leabar Gearr along with it, after they had been absent from us from the time of Cathal Og O'Conor to that of Ruaidri son •of Brian [O'Conor], and ten lords were over Cairbre in the interval. And in the time of Conchobar5 son of Aed O'Donnell

1 He died in the Castle of Sligo, a week before Christmas, 1395. FM.

• The retracing or re-inking of faded letters is quite common in Irish MSS. The expressions used by the scribe of Laud Misc. 610 (Bodl.), entrusted with the task of renovating that MS. are, athscribad na liter, ' the re-writing of the letters, fol. 24 d ; lesugad an Ubhair, 'the restoring of the book,' fol. 47/; culaid athnuaigthi, 'implement of renovation,' fol. 257'. See Plummer's Colophons and Marginalia of Irish Scribes, 1926, p. 85 (British Academy Proc).

This and the following entry have themselves been retraced, the former so skilfully that it is only through minute portions of letters here and there having escaped the process, that one can recognize it. In the second Orait, which overflows into the lower margin, the retracing is more obvious. Consequently a second renovator has been at work at some later period.

3 Sidhradh 6 Cuirnin, a learned poet and ollav of Breifne, died 1347. FM.

4 The festival of the Annunciation referred to here, coincided with Good Friday on March 25th, 1345, which furnishes the date of the entry. Cp. Facsimile, p. xi.

5 He succeeded his father in 1333, and was slain by his brother Niall in his own ^fortress at Murbach in 1342. FM.

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they were taken to the West, and in this manner they were taken, i.e. the Leabar Gearr1 in ransom for O'Doherty2 and Leabar na Huidre going in ransom for the son of O'DonnelTs ollav of history, it being taken by Cathal as a pledge for him from Cenél Conaill . . .3 from Conchobar to Aed."4

From the above entries it would appear that Lebor na Huidre was carried from Donegal into Connacht during the reign of Conchobar son of Aed O'Donnell, that is between 1333 and 1342; that it remained there until 1470, when it was brought back to Donegal after a successful expedition by Aed Ruad, son of Niall Garb O'Donnell. Further, that in 1345, shortly after its transfer to Connacht, the writing which was then much faded, was renovated or re-inked by Sigraid 'Ó Cuirrndin, a poet of Bréifne, who died in 1347. It was thus upwards of 130 years in Connacht.

That the book was still in Donegal in 1631, when the O'Clerys and their associates were at work in the Franciscan Convent there, is evident from the references to it in their various compilations: (1) Martyrology of Donegal (1630) under Sep. 23 ; (2) Lebar Gabála (1631) preface, where it is described as written at Clonmacnois in the time of St. Ciarán ; (3J in their Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, under A.D. 266 (Stowe copy). Further Lughaidh O'Clery is said by Mac Fir Bhisigh

1 Cp. the reference to the Lebar Gearr or Short Book in Aided Nath I, p. 94, in a passage interpolated by H, 1. 2922, and also found in YBL., where it is cited as one •of the sources, formerly in Monasterboice, afterwards stolen by a student and taken over sea, since when it was never heard of.

2 Captured at Ballyshannon in 1359. FM.

3 Something evidently omitted here, as fris sin gives no sense.

4 A.D. 1470. Caislen Sliccigh do ghabháil la Hua nDomhnaill for Domhnall mac Eoghain Ui Conchobhair iar mbeith athaidh fhoda i n-iomsuidhe fair, 7 a breath fein dfághail do chomhtoibh d'Ua Domhnaill don chur sin la taobh umhla, 7 •cios chána o Iochtar Connacht. Bá don chur sin doradadh dó an Leabhar Gearr, 7 Leabhar na Huidhri, 7 cathaoireacha Domhnaill Óicc ruccadh siar re linn Sheaain mic Conchobhair mic Aodha mic Domhnaill Oicc Ui Domhnaill. FM.

"The Castle of Sligo was taken by O'Donnell from Domnall, sonofEoghan O'Conor, after having been besieged for a long time. And O'Donnell obtained his own judgment and awards on that occasion, including submission and tribute from Lower Connacht. It was on that occasion were given to him the Lebar Gearr and Lebar na Huidre, and the chairs of Domnall Óg which had been taken to the West in the time of Seaán son of Conchobar son of Aed son of Domnall ■Óg O'Donnell."

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in his Book of Genealogies to have transcribed the whole or a part of Lebor na Huidre. Colgan refers to it in his Acta Sanctorum, 1645, and Keating in his History fed. Comyn,. I, P. 78).

How long it continued to remain in Donegal, and what were its subsequent wanderings until acquired by Messrs. Hodges & Smith, we have no means of knowing.

Mael Muire, with whose name it is associated as the principal scribe, was slain by marauders in 1106 in the middle of the Daimhliag of Clonmacnois, according to the Annals of the Four Masters, and this is the only mention of him apart from the Book itself: Maolmuire mac mic Cuind na mbocht do mharbhadh ar lar doimhliacc Cluana mic Nóis la haois aidhmhillte. His family had been settled at Clonmacnois for many generations, his direct ancestors occupying high positions in learned and ecclesiastical circles. Heinrich Zimmer has traced them back through the Annals in his notable study, " Ueber den compilatorischen charakter der irischen sagentexte im sogenannten Lebor na Huidre" (Zeitschr. f. vergl. Sprach- forschung xxviii, 671 ff.). Mael Muire, was the son of Célechar, presumably Célechar Mugdornach, bishop of Clonmacnois, who died in 1067. His grandfather at all events was Conn na mbocht, so called because of his liberality to the poor. He was head of the Céli Dé and anchorite of Clonmacnois. He died in 1059. His father was Joseph, anmchara or confessor of Clonmacnois, d. 1022, son of Dunchad, bishop of Clonmacnois, d- 953, son of Egertach, airchinnech or superior of Ecclais Becr d. 893, grandson of Eogan, anchorite of Clonmacnois, d. 845, son of Aedagán. abbot of Louth, d. 834, son of Torbach, scribe, lector, and abbot of Armagh, d. 807. son of Gorman, comarba or successor of Mochta of Louth, d. 753, when on a pilgrimage at Clonmacnois. A still earlier Gorman of the Mugdornai also died there in 610, when on a pilgrimage, and he too, according to the Annals of Clonmacnois, was an ancestor of Mael Muire. As Zimmer truly observes, Mael Muire, doubly connected by his ancestry with Armagh and Clonmacnois, was in the line of a great tradition.

It is strange that a volume of such importance should not have been mentioned in its turn as a source in any other

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medieval Irish manuscript, like those famous books cited in it — Lebar Dromma Snechta, Lebar Buide Sláni, etc.

The only other marks of former possession are on p. 2"jb marg. sup. Misi uitt o Flait[ ], probably Flaithbhertaigh ; Misi uill[ V

Description,— In its present state Lebor na Huidre is little more than a fragment, consisting of 67 leaves of vellum, of varying quality, and averaging eleven inches in height by eight in breadth : three shorter leaves have been intercalated. When the volume was bound and repaired in 188 1, the gatherings were taken asunder, the leaves separated from their conjugates and laid down singly on parchment mounts, so that it is no longer possible to determine their relations to one another, or the number and make-up of the various gatherings or quires. To attempt this now, the volume would have to be taken asunder, the leaves dismounted, and repieced where possible.

The leaves, with a few exceptions, are foliated on the recto, in the centre of the lower margin, by means of the letters of the alphabet, the last three leaves in a series after s, terminating 7, e|'c, wnen.1

In addition to this earlier foliation there is a later one in Arabic numerals on the recto of each leaf, in the middle of the upper margin, made in the late sixteenth or early seven- teenth century.2 Finally there is a modern pagination, made for the purpose of the lithographic Facsimile of 1870. As all subsequent references to the MS. in Irish studies have been to this pagination, it has been adopted in the present edition for the sake of convenience.

Scribes. — Lebor na Huidre, as we have seen, has traditionally been regarded as the compilation of Mael Muire. In its present condition, however, apart from certain scholia and adscripts, it is the work of three quite distinct hands, here denoted A, the first scribe, M = Mael Muire, and H, an interpolator.

1 On the lower margins of the Irish codex Ambrosianus C 301 (= Ml. glosses) there is an alphabetic foliation which, to judge from photographic prints, appears to follow sections; these are of varying length, and their sequence is marked by majuscules : e.g., & a-1 ; £ A-n, etc. Only one section, (jo], is foliated to the end, and the first three, [A], b, C, are not foliated at all. This foliation, which is seemingly in the 9th-cent. text hand, has not attracted attention hitherto.

2 This is omitted in the Facsimile.

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J. O'Beirne Crowe, who had transcribed the greater part of the MS., and had edited and translated several texts from it, in the introduction to his edition of Siaburcharpat Con Culaind (Journ. of the R. Hist, and Archaeol. Assocn. of Ireland, 4 Ser., vol. I, p. 372 f., 1 871) drew attention to the occurrence of this third hand in that particular tract, and elsewhere in the MS. ; but he supposed it to be that of a fellow-worker of Mael Muire, and his observation, which was made quite casually for the purpose of exposing a faulty reading, escaped the notice of subsequent investigators.1

It was not until recent years that the true role of this third hand as an interpolator was made known, and the first hand distinguished. See R. I. Best, Notes on the Script of Lebor na Huidre (Eriu VI, 161 ff., 191 2) from which the account that follows is adapted, and which should be referred to for further details and illustrations of the interpolated passages.

A. The book was begun by A, who was the best penman, if not the most accurate copyist. He also began to transcribe the Fís Adamnán and the Táin, when the pen was taken up by Mael Muire. How much more A transcribed we cannot tell, so many leaves are now lost. It is a careful well-formed book hand, the strokes firmly drawn, those extending below the line tapering to a point (pi. I). The letters are more uniform in height, maintaining a more even level than either of the other hands. The distinguishing feature of this hand is the hooked open a, more familiar as a capital, but here used in preference to the small open a, which however also occurs. This hooked a is used in the same manner in other manuscripts of the period, the Trinity College Liber Hymnorum, for example.2 The second marked peculiarity of A is the tall e, which occurs in two forms, having a slight droop at the top, but free of the following letter, and also occasionally looped and touching the following letter. This is quite a common feature in Irish hands, but in this MS. the double formation is peculiar to this hand only. Similarly in sr. sf, ss, etc., the first s when it rises above the line is not joined to the succeeding letter. Character- istic is tall e followed by z, in ein, where the «-stroke is under

1 See Best, Paloeographical Notes, Eriu Viu, 117 ff. '-' Cp. also Raw). B. 502, Facs. pp. 13^3, i8a22, 70»!.

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the loop of e, and over the i\ a\\\ the compendium for ar is better drawn than in the other hands, where it has a tendency to rise above the line. Note in si, how the i subscript is ligatured to the shaft of s, giving the latter almost the appearance of h; and the mark of aspiration curled up at the end, also the pronounced upward curl to the cross bar of/ in the symbol for nó (uel), and the drooping character of s. Again, the compendium for fri, where the hooked character above the /is more upright than in either M or H. The 2-shaped r so common in the other hands, after o, b, d, is only used by A two or three times. The large ornamental initials are elaborate and well formed. Contractions are not so numerous as in the other hands, and h is more frequently written out. It is an elegant, somewhat formal hand, uniformly good.

M. = Mael Muire. This is a graceful more pointed hand, not so regular as the former (pi. II). The letters have a tendency to lean back, as if the writer held his pen sideways, which gives a somewhat broken, but at the same time not unpleasing appear- ance to the writing. It is a beautiful and refined hand, easy to distinguish. Occasionally it appears slightly larger and heavier, not unlike that of H, due to retracing, but it is always careful and good. Its distinguishing characteristic is that the tall e is invariably looped over and joined to the succeeding letter,1 similarly s when raised above the line, in ss, s/, etc. ; si is rarely ligatured, the subscript i being thrown well out from the shaft of the i", but in the early pages it is straight, dropping below the line. Observe the 2-shaped r, how it drops gracefully below the line, often with a slight upward curl, contrasting with the same letter in the other hands, generally short. The shafts of s, r, f, are as a rule long, finishing in a delicate hair-stroke. M uses once for de, c with a tongue at the top. The accents are clearly and finely marked, very characteristic in this hand. The large ornamental initials are well drawn like those of A. This is the hand of the probatio pennae (pis. I, II) and accord- ingly Mael Muire's.2

1 This letter is frequently opened out at the top by the re tracer so as to resemble that of H.

3 Mael Muire evidently took up the pen from A at p. 55, and began to transcribe at col. b 1. 34, afterwards effaced by H, together with lines 1-12 on the following page. Hence the probatio pennae of M on this page, his corrections, and also the title, which is in his hand.

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H or the interpolator. As it is the hand that transcribed the Homilies (p. 31-37) it is denoted by H (pi. lb 34-end ; lib 32-end.) This hand exhibits much greater variety than either of the preceding, is liable to deteriorate, and ranges from a neat and careful script to an untidy scrawl. In general it is a plain sloping hand, somewhat stiff and irregular, the strokes usually terminating squarely as if made by a broad pen. It has none of the delicacy and lightness of M. Its distinguishing characteristic is again the tall e, which unlike that of M is never looped but always open, and clear of the fullow'ng letter. Precisely the same treatment is observed in s when rising above the line, e.g., in ss, sf, sr, sp, etc. The small round head of/" is characteristic, and the g is rather square. In the Homilies, where a large amount of matter is compressed into a page, the writing is small and cramped : the stumpy appearance of si and the short tails of r and s will not fail to strike the eye. Elsewhere the writing is larger, in one place upright and carefully formed (p. 21, cp. Eriu VI, pi. VIb), inclining to the round, in another angular and approximating to M (p. 26; ib. pi. Via), but always, with the tall e open. Again, rough and untidy [p. 42; ib. pi. Vila), rapid and spread out (p. 105; ib. pi. Vile), as if the object were to make a certain amount of matter extend to the end of the column. Occasionally the style is more free, seeming almost to borrow some of the features of M (p. 1 10 ; ib. pi. Vllf). Note also ci, the i subscript and drawn round, a favourite form with H, also used by A, but only sparingly by M (p. 34; ib. Ilia 20). The capitals and large ornamental letters are with one or two exceptions more rudely drawn than those of A or M.

Interpolator. — The intervention of H is throughout rude and violent. Not only single words and lines, but whole columns and pages have been erased by him, and leaves intercalated, to make way for the particular recensions which he favoured. He set to work with great determination and, it must be said, with no small interest in the texts. The membrane of many leaves has been rubbed down into holes, and is exceedingly fragile in places. Even the three shorter leaves intercalated appear to have been cut down, scraped, and prepared for his purpose.1

1 For instance, on p. 123 traces of the former text, elo. are clearly visible on the outer rim.

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In the so-called Annals of Tigernach, a MS. of the end of the eleventh century, now bound up at the beginning of Rawl. B. 502 (Facs. ed., 1909), the hand of H appears again as an interpolator (see R. I. Best, Palaeographical Notes, Ériu VII., 114 ff.). His association with what are evidently two Clonmacnois manuscripts, for Tigernach, who died in 1088, was abbot of Clonmacnois, would point to his having been a member of that community. The interpolations in our MS. were thus in all likelihood made before it was removed to Donegal prior to the fourteenth century. During its stay there and in Connacht, Lebor na Huidre, as we have seen, was treated as an object of veneration, and suffered no alterations in its text. Indeed the statement on p. 39^19, as to the whereabouts of its companion in exile, the Leabar Gearr, being unknown, was permitted to remain unaltered, notwithstanding that the two precious volumes were together for a century or two, if not longer. The remarkable thing is that Sigraid Ó Cuirrndin, who wrote his Orait on the blank space of a page which had been rewritten by H, and abraded to the point of perforation, should have failed to observe that this beautiful book (sciamhiebhar), as he admiringly calls it, was only partly the work of Mael Muire. And it is hardly to be supposed that the interpolations of H were confined to the portion that has come down to us. Further, Sigraid's phrase ro scritt a lebraib egsamlaib must refer to the sources mentioned in the MS., all with one exception (133 a 25) occurring in the interpolated passages of H.

The script of H contains no elements so markedly different from the other two hands as would enable one to assign a later date to it on purely palaeographical grounds. He indulges more frequently in abbreviation and in dropped letters, particularly where space was for him a valuable consideration. From his having utilised certain recensions which are not earlier than the beginning of the thirteenth century, Thurneysen is inclined to place him in that century (Die irisclie Helden- und Kdnigsage, p. 31). And it may well be so. His hand has much in common with that of the Book of Leinster scribe (late twelfth century), when not at his best, and that of the scribe who wrote the entry for 1272 in Rawl. B. 503 (Annals of Inisfallen). We are not disposed, however, to put it later than

b

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the thirteenth century. The question arises here as to the period of the earlier alphabetic foliation. When did it take place? Are the letters on the interpolated leaves in the hand of H? According to Prou (Manuel de paléographie, p. 25), manuscripts were not foliated prior to the thirteenth century. Reusens, however, states that foliation is as old as the twelfth century {Elements de paléographie, p. 460). The foliation of Irish manuscripts in mediaeval times is so rare that this and the Milan codex already referred to are the only instances we know of.

The letters vary in size, being sometimes quite small. The ink, where not re-touched, has faded to a pale black or greyish hue, not the brown tint of the text where it has escaped retrac- ing. It is very difficult to give an opinion on isolated letters, and the only words occurring are eyz (thrice) and &meti (twice). They are in all instances faded. We hesitate to pronounce on their age, beyond that in form they are not inconsistent with even the twelfth- and thirteenth-century hands of the Book of Leinster and Rawlinson B. 503 (Annals of Inisfallen) and the fourteenth-century hand of Rawl. B. 488 (Annals of Tigernach). A strong presumption that the foliation took place prior to the interpolations would appear to be furnished by the signatures on ff. 75 and 76 (= pp. 115, 117). These two leaves intercalated by H, take the place of a single leaf by M, which when erased by H was found insufficient to contain the new matter he wished to insert. Now the leaves preceding and following, which are by M, are signed |\ and c, while the signatures on the two intervening leaves are both ]', which had to be repeated. Again, by fol. 25 (= p. 21), which is formed by the repiecing of two columns, the first (recto and verso) by M, the second by H ; the signature eyr is at the foot of M's column, but underneath is still traceable an earlier signature 5 (both signatures omitted in the Facsimile), which is further evidence that the foliation preceded the interpolation.

The foliation, for the most part, seems to be the work of a single hand, and, to judge by the signature y on p. 31, in which the cross-stroke traverses the shaft, not of one of those occurring elsewhere in the volume. At least it is not possible to state positively whether the signatures on the leaves erased or intercalated by H are by him or the original foliator. It may

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well be that the foliation took place at the time H set to work, and that the leaves interpolated by him were re-foliated shortly afterwards by the original foliator.1

The following conspectus of the interpolations of H may be useful in conjunction with the text ; the interlinear glosses in his hand are not included : — p. 4a 11, p. 9 (marg. sup.) ; p. 16 (entire); p. 21 col. b (and marg. inf.), 22 col. a ; p. 25-26 (entire); p. 31^34 to end; pp. 33~34, 35~36 (entire), 37, col. a and b 1-20 ; p. 38 (marg. sup.) and col. b 13 ; p. 39-46 (entire); p. 47a 1-18, b 17, 19-21, 24-33; p. 48« 42, 45, £6, 11 to end; p. 49<* 1- 16 ; p. 50« 23 ; p. 51« 42-44, b 1, 19, 44 ; p. 52^ 10, 12, 30 ; p. 53^ 33, 42, b 6 ; p. 54a i-io, 45-49, b 1-3 ! P- 55^ 32-44; p. 56^7 i-io; p. 58« 3-5; p. 59<? 28; p. 60b 21 ; p. 61b 43; p. 62a 14, b 33 ; p. 63/; 29, 30, 34-37 ; p. 64b 6 ; p. 6$a 2$> 28-30, b 24 (marg.); p. 69*7 3 (inter col.); p. 70^ 32-47; p. 71-72 (entire) ; p. 73^ 36 (inter col.) ; p. 74^ 19, 38-46 ; p. 75-76 (entire) ; p. 77a 26 ; p. 78« 32-34 ; p. 7gb 7 ; p. 81« 44, b 1, 37 (maig.) ; p. 82^ 23-44 ; p. 84b 20, 34 ; p. 87-89 (marg. sup.) ; p. 90« 5, 30 ; p. g\b 17 ; p. 93-94 (entire) ; p. 95^ 1-5 ; p. g6a 5 ; p. g8a 43, b 1-2, 19-21, 23 ; p. gga 40 ; p. 103, 104 (entire) ; p. 105 col. a ; p. 108« 36-38, 42-46, b 109-110; p. 114^ 42 ; p. 115-118 (entire); p. 116 (marg. stip.); p. 121b 19 (marg.), 26, 38; p. 122« 33 ; pp. 123-24, 125-26, 127 (entire); p. 128« I, b 1, 25 to end of col.

Marginal additions by later hands occur on 69 marg. inf. ; 74b marg. inf. ; 82a marg. sup. (illeg.) ; 8^ marg. inf. and p. iga marg. inf., die (om. Facs.).

The various foliations, the distribution of the hands, and the extent of the interpolations and lacunae will readily be apprehended by a glance at the following table. It will be observed that the present order of the leaves corresponds, with a few exceptions towards the end, to what it was in the seventeenth century. An asterisk indicates a lacuna, and square brackets [ ] that a tract is defective at either end, or both, as the case may be : —

1 It should' be noted that while v is used for u on fol. 31, both u and v occur in succession on fols. 56, 57, v again on fol. 79, out of place. These two letters, which are not alphabetically distinct in Irish, are used here, once at least, as mere letter forms. On the other hand_y has been discarded.

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Present

Signature

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pagin- ation

Hand

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*A lost

•1

[Sex aetates mundi]

b1

2

1-2

A

„

*c-p lost

*3-6

5

7

3-4

A

[ ] Lebor Bretnach

h

8

5-6

A

AmraCholuimChille

M

9

7-8

A

n

k

[10]

9-10

A

n

I

11

11-12

A

„

m

12

13-14.

A

n

*n /<?.tf

*13

o

14

15-16

A, H p. 16

Colum Cille cc. 15a 34, Seel Tuain m. Cairill [ ]

*p-n /<w/

*15-17

r

18

11-18

M

[ ] Dá brón flatha nime

*c-x lost

* 19-22

Z1

23J

19-20

M

[ ] Mesca Ulad. 20b 32, Táin Bó Dar- tada [ ]

*7 /<w*

*24

ef colder 51

[25]

21-22

Mp. 21a,22b, H 21b, 22a

[ ] Táin Bó Flidais. 22a31, Immram CuraigMaíle Dúin

* Mil en lost

A

26

23-24

M

n

b

27

25-26

H

» [ 1

* c lost

*28

*T) /W/

*29

* e-p /itf/

c

802

27-28

A. p. 27ftl-10 M

Fís Adomnán

V

31

29-30

M

X

322

31-32

M,Hp. 31b34

31b34, Scéla Lai Brátha

z

33?

33-31/.

H

34a24, Scéla na Esérgi

7

34

35-36

H

f}

epc

35

37-38

H, M p. 38,

marg. sup. H

37b Orait 38a, Aided Nath Í.

- illeg. ; so O' Curry.

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^men

36

39-40

H

39a22 Aided Echach

a

37

&1-&

H

41»9 Fotha Catha Cnucha

b

38

43-44

H

Serglige Con Culainn

c

3[9]

45-46

H

„

T>

40

47-48

M Interpol. H

„

[e]

41

49-50

M

50b15 Senchas na Relec

• y

42

51-52

M

52a12 Genemain

5

43

53-54

M

Áeda Sláne. 53a33 Tucait innarba na nDésse [ ]

*h lost

*44

n

1

45

55-56

A interpol.

Táin Bó Cúailnge

M, H

k

46

57-58

M interpol. H

,,

w

[47]

59-60

M

„

111

48

61-62

M

„

n

49

63-64

M

„

o

50

65-66

M

„

V

51

67-68

M

„

q

52

69-70

M interpol. H

,,

r

53

71-72

H

„

r

54

73-74

M interpol. H

„

c

55

75-76

H

„

11

56

77-78

M interpol. H

„

V

57

79-80

M

H

w

58

81-82

M interpol. H

n []

*Z-X /iW/

w

59

83-84

M

] Togail Bruidne Dá Derga

7

60

85-86

M

„

epc

61

87-88

M

„

Amen

62

89-90

M

,,

a

63

91-92

M

n

b

64

93-94

H

c

65

95-96

M interpol. H

„

•o

66

97-98

M

,,

e

67

99-100

M

99b Fled Bricrend

F

68

101-02

M

„

5

69

103-04

H

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h

70

105-06

H, M

M p. 106

99b Fled Bricrend

1

[71]

107-08

M p. 107 H p. 108b

»

k

72

109-10

H

t

73

111-12

M

» []

*m-q lost

V

74

113-U

M

Siaburcharpat Con Culaind

r

75

115-16

H

do concl. 115b18. Cath Cairnd Chonaill

r

76

117-18

H

117b20 Comthoth Lóegairi

c

77

119-20

M

Fástini Airt meic Cuind. 120a3 Echtra Condlai 120b27Cethriarda in domain [

*u lost

X

78

121-22

M

[ ] end of Immram Brain. 121a25 Tochmarc Emere

V

* r,

79

123-24.

H

z

[]

84

125-26

H

"

80

127-28

H

128a Compert Con

p. 128 M,

Culaind [ ]

interpol. H

[ ] lost

m (?)

129-30

M

[ ] Tochmarc Étaíne. 129b20 another version ; 130b19a third story

H

-131-32-

M

);

—

-133-3U-

M

[ ] end of [Compert

Mongán]. 133a25

Mongan 'Find.

134a12 Seel Mon-

gan. 134b9Tucait

Baile Mongán.

134b36 Cind erred

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As the volume now stands it will be seen that A contributed 16 pages, Mael Muire about 80, and the interpolations of H amount to 37 pages, most of which were no doubt originally contributed by Mael Muire.

It is evident from the foliations that a great portion of the book has been lost, at least 66 leaves — 51 before the sixteenth- seventeenth century foliation, and 16 after: that is, the equivalent of the volume as it now is. And it is highly probable that leaves had disappeared when the earlier foliation took place. For instance, four leaves (c-p, 3-6) seem scarcely sufficient to contain the missing portions of the first two tracts, Sex Aetates Mundi and Lebor Bretnach. Furthermore, leaves are missing at the end of the volume.

Vellum. — When not rubbed down for rescription, the vellum, as is generally the case in Irish manuscripts, is thick and ill-prepared; fols. 9 (p. 7-8), 25 (p. 21-22), and the last leaf (p. 123-4) are formed of two halves, cut asunder, and afterwards pieced together again. The upper and lower margins of fol. 9. have been trimmed. On folios 51 and 54 (pp. 67, 73) circular pieces have been inset at the lower extremity ; folio 67 (p. 99), a section has been cut across the lower part, and replaced somewhat crookedly ; folio 84 (p. 125) has been cut in half, and only a single column, recto and verso, remains, similarly the leaf paged 13 1 -2, which is worn very thin and perforated. In a number of places, to which attention is called in the footnotes to the text, some portions of leaves are lost, and others abraded into holes by the interpolator.

Ruling. — The ruling is done with a hard point, the number of lines on a page varying from 34 to 49. The writing is in two columns with the exception of one short leaf intercalated by H, where it is continuous. The horizontal lines are bounded by parallel vertical lines, leaving an intercolumnar space, which like the outer margins is used for titles, and occasionally a gloss. The ruling is often very faint, and it has frequently been obliterated by abrasion.

Lists of names, etc., are written in sub-columns, within the column, in several instances bounded by vertical lines, on pp. \a, 2b, 56a, J$a, Sob, 101a, 1 \$b.

Ornament. — Large ornamental initial letters, generally with

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zoomorphic terminals, occur at the beginning of tracts and elsewhere, enlivened with patches of colour, red, yellow, and purple ; large capitals are frequent, and dabs of colour are liberally applied throughout the volume. Those of H appear to have been modelled on A and M. They are somewhat similar to those in Rawl. B. 502.

Punctuation. — The only punctuation used is the point which marks off a clause or sentence; it is often unnecessary, marring the sense, and it is often wanting, The close of a paragraph or tract is frequently indicated by a single point followed by a virgule, repeated several times :.,.,; or instead .<-, or .v repeated in the same way. The full point is also placed before and after certain abbreviations and symbols, e.g. .i. id est = ed ón, never written out; .7 et = ocus ; the Roman numerals .ui. ; .rh., .mc., ' mac? This is the regular practice in Irish manuscripts.

The division of words at the end of a line follows no system, nor is it marked by a stroke or hyphen. The space left over at the end of a clause is most often filled by the overflow from the following line, preceded by .//. as the custom is in Irish manuscripts ; occasionally it is filled up by a few spirals.

The separation of two words wrongly joined is occasionally marked by subscript oc, which may be of later date.

Abbreviations. — The abbreviation symbols are those com- monly found in medieval manuscripts, persisting in Irish down to recent times, e.g. : —

The straight or sinuous horizontal stroke directly over a letter, or attached to the shaft of b, /, h, marking the omission of the letter ?i when over a vowel, n, r, or s; over two vowels or a final letter, when it serves as a suspension mark, almost any syllable, e.g. : — slua = sluaga, blia = bWadna, bli = bliadain, cá = each, ná = nach, us = usee, am = amail, ami//, sam = samaitte, math = mathair, dá = dano, di = d'xdiu, didu, im = immurgu, etc., similarly in constantly recurring proper names such as : Ait = Ail///, A'úello, Hér = Héretid, Hérind, Ech = Echaid, Ecbdack, etc., or phrases such as those in ' Togail Bruidne Dá Derga.' In such instances italics mark the expansion. As a syllable symbol b = ben, ber, bir ; c = cer ; d = der ; f = for, iur,

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and Ur (H) ; g = gre, ger ; I = e\, »1, «/], £<?z'l ; m = men, man ; n = non, n- = niw/ ; p = pre ; s = s^ (Lat. sed) and so «^/ also ses ; t = tor, t^r, tz'r.

— > The ;;/-stroke indicating omitted in when over a vowel or m, n, and om, tan when over c, m, r, s.

«eiov small suprascript letters indicating r omitted before the vowel, generally found over c, f, g, p, t, e.g. : cm, en, c^e, gra, pri, tra, tre, etc., over / the i as a rule has the form of a pot-hook with hands A, M, occasionally also with H.

' The ur symbol, attached to t, g, often standing for the inflected form m'r.

vv The suprascript symbol for ur, ru, over m, c, u, etc.

r The mark of aspiration, = k, found over c, p, t. Over s, /, a point takes its place, originally a fitinctum delens, and occasionally used as such. The point is also frequently used to mark eclipsing n or ;;/.

o = co, con, coin.

3 = us, uis.

4 4 = ar, air, the Latin tachygram for quia, which Irish scribes came to regard as a + the r-stroke, a suprascript i being added for air

7 = ocus, Latin et, and several times indicates final et (M. H.). It is generally joined to r in the phrase 7? = et reliqua, occasionally to f (H).

p- = per in 'imper' (H).

Latin Abbreviations. — The following list may be found useful : —

anima ala

cetera c, in 7c ' et cetera,' 6040.

coeluvi elm, cii ' coeli.'

dico, etc. dt, dht ' dicunt,' dx ' dixit,' df ' dicitur,' dens

' dicens.'

eius 9 the usual Irish symbol, reversed 6, also ei'5.

est the 2-symbol, with dot below.

et 7

filius fls, flia ' filia.'

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hie, etc.

H ' hie,' H ' hoc/ hs ' huius.'

homo

ho

incipit

Icip

meus

mi

nisi

i n

nomen, etc.

no ' nomen,' noa ' nomina,' noat' ' nominatur.'

non

n

omnis

oi 'omni,' oium ' omnium.'

per

P

post

P

Pro

5-P

proprins

p ' proprium,' a combination of the pro and pri

symbols.

quasi

qsl

que

Q3

qui, etc.

q ' qui,' qs ' quis,' qd ' quid,' q. ' quam,' q ' qua.'

quia

%

quidam

qdam

quomodo

qmo

rerum

rr

reliqua

rt

secundum

the usual Irish symbol, y, with stroke traversing

the shaft. For the adjective the same symbol

followed by dus

sed

s

semper

smr

sic

s

sine

sn

sunt

s

species

spei 'speciei.'

tantutn

tni

uel

t

uero

u

usque

us

ut

u

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Syllable symbols : —

m suprascript stroke — >

n suprascript stroke

em d" ' -dem ' (in ' idem,' : eodem,' 'eiusdem').

er suprascript stroke t 'ter' (in 'Urtius,' 'speciality;-).

i ri p ' pri.

ur t" ' tur.'

us 5

Nomina sacra : — Deus ds, d.

Dominus dnm ' Dominum,' d. ' Dominus.'

Capricious suspensions : —

amen

am

admiratione

ad mi rat io

caritate

caritá

Emanuel

émat

hiruphin

hír

Israel

Isrt

lectione

lectio

poeta sabaoth

po,p.

s.

sapientia sanctus

sapiefi s.

testamentnm

testa

saraphzn

sará

CONTENTS.— p. I. [Sex Aetates Mundi\ A tract on the six ages of the world. A fragment only, owing to loss of a leaf at the beginning, and several at the end.

Other copies: BB. (Facs. p. 3) acephalous; Lc. f. 36^; Rawlinson B. 502 f. 41 «6 (Facs. p. 69).

Edition : Edmund Hogan S. J. : The Irish Nennius from L. na Huidre (Todd Lecture Ser. VI.), 1895, p. 1-10, text and transl., where it is confused with the tract following.

In Rawl. B. 502, which is a fuller version than the others, interspersed with poems, the tract is described as a rendering into Gaelic of the pandecht Cirine, or Pandect of Jerome (i.e. the

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Vulgate), by Dublitir úa Húathgaile, fer légind, or lector, of Glenn Uissen, who is the author of the poem Rédigdam a Dé do nim, at the end of the tract,1 and who lived at the close of the eleventh century.

p. 3. \_Lebor Brelnach\ Historia Brittonum of Nennius. A fragment only, owing to a lacuna in the MS.

Other copies : H. 3. 17 (T CD.) p. So6b ; BB. f. 113 {Fact, p. 203) ; (part of the text in H. 2. 17 (T.C.D.) p. 172 ff.) ; Book of Hy Mane, f. (35^) 91b. In the last named it is entitled Leabur Breatnack, the secondary title adding, quam Nenius construxit Gilla Coemain ro impaí i Scotic, ' rendered into Irish.'

Editions: (i)J. H.Todd: Leabhar Breathnach. The Irish version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius. Ed. with atransl. and notes, 1848. Text of H. 3.17 with readings of BB. and Lc. ;

(2) Edmund Hogan, S.J. : op. cit, p. 10-16. Cp. H. Zimmer's Latin translation, z« Mommsen's Chronica Minora saec. IV-VII. vol. III., 143 ff., 1894.

Analysis and discussion : H. Zimmer : Nennius Vindicatus, 1893, p. 1 1 ff . ; and consult Best : Bibliography of Irish philology and printed Irish literature, 191 3, p- 253.

p. 5 Amra Choluim Ciiillc, ' Eulogy of St. Columba,' attributed to Dalian Forgaill. Imperfect, owing to loss of a leaf.

Other copies : Liber Hymnorum, Trin. Coll. Dublin f. 26« ; Rawlinson B. 502, f. 54a 1 (Fats. p. 95) ; YBL. col. 680 (Facs. p. 71) ; Lebar Brecc (Facs. p. 238c) imperfect: Egerton 1782 f. la (incomplete) ; Stowe C. 3. 2 (R.I.A.), (imperfect), etc.

Editions: (1) J. O'B. Crowe, Dublin.. 1871. Text from LU. with translation. Glosses omitted. (2) W. Stokes. Text of Liber Hymnorum copy, in Goidelica, 2nd ed.,p. 156-173, 1872 ;

(3) R. Atkinson : Irish Liber Hymnorum. I. — II., 1898, text, transl., notes, and special glossary ; (4) Whitley Stokes : Bodleian Amra Choluimb Chille (RC xx, xxi, 1899- 1900), text, transl. and variant readings.

p. 15« 11. The prayer Colum cdid cumachtach has been ed. and transl. by Julius Pokorny : Ein altirisches Gebet zu St. Columba (ZCP. viii, 285-88, 1911).

1 Cp. Meyer, Introd. to Facsimile of Rawl. B. 502, p. iv. ; and Best, An early monastic grant in the Book of Durrow, Eriu x. 141 f.

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p. i $a 34. Scél Túain maic Cairill do Fhinén Maige Bile, ' Túan son of Cairell's story to Finnén of Mag Bile' (Moville). The end is wanting owing to lacuna.

Other copies : Laud 610, f. 102a ; Ravvl. B. 512, f. gyb, and H. 3. 18 (T.C.D.). f- 38a.

Edition : Kuno Meyer. Two texts and translation, in Appendix A. to Voyage of Bran, vol. ii, 1897.

The poems, for the sake of which H interpolated p. 16, do not occur in the Rawl. and H. 3. 18 copies, which otherwise follow LU., nor in Laud, which is a different recension.

p. 17. DáBrón Flatha Niwe,'The two sorrows of the Kingdom of Heaven.' Beginning wanting, owing to lacuna.

Other copies : LL. (Facs. 280a); YBL. col. 170 (Facs. 120b 25) ; Book of Fermoy 114a ; Paris Bibl. Nat. Celt. 1, 27^.

Edition : Georges Dottin : Les deux chagrins du royaume du ciel. (RC. xxi, 349-87, i90i)Text, translation, and commen- tary.

p. iga. Mesca Ulad, ' Intoxication of the Ulstermen.' Imperfect, owing to lacuna at the beginning.

Other copies: LL. (Facs. 261b) imperfect; Edinb. MS. XL, p. 49.

Edition: W. M. Hennessy : Mesca Ulad. Text and transl. of LL. and LU. (Todd Lecture Ser. I., 1889).

Analysis and discussion by R. Thurneysen : Die irische Helden- und Konigsage, 192 1, p. 473 ff. ; Aine de Paor : The common authorship of some Book of Leinster texts (Eriu ix, 118 ff.).

p. 20b 32. Táin Bó Dartada, ' The Cattle spoil of Dartaid.' Opening lines only, owing to lacuna.

Other copies : YBL. col. 644 {Facs. p. 53^ 34). Egerton 1782, f. 80 r\ Brit. Mus. Add. 33,993, f. 1.

Editions: Ernst Windisch : Vier klcine Táin, mit deutscher Uebersetzung (Irische Texte 2 Ser. II., 1887); R. Thurneysen: Text from B.M. Add. (Zu irischen Handschriften u. Littera- turdenkmalern. p. 90-92, 1912); A. H. Leahy: Heroic romances of Ireland, II, 1906, translation only.

Analysis and discussion by R. Thurneysen : Die irische Helden- und Konigsage, 1921, p. 303 ff.

p. 2\a. Táiu Bó Flidais, 'The Cattle spoil of Flidais.' Opening lines wanting, owing to lacuna in MS. Interpolated.

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Other copies: LL. Facs. p. 247, Egerton 1782, f. 82«; Liber Flavus, f. 26 [77] r.

Editions: (1) Ernst Windisch, op. cit.\ (2) A. H. Leahy, op. cit., translation only.

Analysis and discussion by R. Thurneysen, op. cit. Kap. 23,

P- 317 ff-

p. 22a 31. Immram Curaig Maíle Dút'n, 'Voyage of Mael Dúin's coracle.' Opening lines col. a in ras. by H, also pp. 25 and 26. Breaks off owing to lacuna in MS.

Other copies: YBL. col. 370 {Facs. p. 1); Harleian 5280 f. 1 (imperfect); Egerton 1782, f. 124-5 (fragments).

Edition: W. Stokes: The Voyage of Mael Duin (RC. ix, 447-95, 1888; x, 50-95, 265, 1889). Text and transl. from above MSS.

Analysis and discussion by H. Zimmer: Keltische Bei- tráge II. (Zeitschr. f. deutsches Alterthum xxxiii, 1 50 ff. 1889).

p. 27« Fis Adoi/mán, 'The vision of Adamnán.'

Other copies : LB. (Facs. p. 253) ; Paris Bibl. Nat. 8175.

Editions: (1) Whitley Stokes: Fis Adamnain . . . transcr. and transl. from the Book of the Dun Cow. With notes. Simla, 1870. Translation reprinted in Eraser's Magazine, vol. lxxxiii, 184-94, 1 871, and in Margaret Stokes: Three months in the Forests of France, p. 265-79; (2) Ernst Windisch: Fis Adamnáin, Die Vision des Adamnán (Irische Texte, 1880, p. 165 ff.). Text of LU. and LB. ; (31 J. Vendryes : Aislingthi Adhamnáin d'aprés le texte du manuscrit de Paris (RC. xxx, 349-83, 1909) ; (4) cp. C. S. Boswell : An Irish precursor of Dante, 190S (Grimm Library), which has a transl. of the LU. text.

p. 31^ 34. Scéla Lai Brdiha, 'Tidings of Doomsday.' Interpolation of H. No other copy known.

Editions: (1) Whitley Stokes: Tidings of Doomsday. An early Middle Irish homily. Text and transl. (RC. iv, 245-57, 479, 1880); (2) Paul Walsh. Text with vocabulary (Mil na mBeach, p. 62-8. 191 1).

p. 34# 24. Scéla 11a Esérgi, ' Tidings of the Resurrection.' Interpolation of H. No other copy known.

Editions: (1) J. O'B. Crowe: Scéla na Esérgi. A treatise on the Resurrection . . . with a literal transl., 1865 ; (2) Whitley Stokes: Tidings of the Resurrection (RC. xxv, 232-59, 1904).

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Text, transl., and glossary ; (3J Paul Walsh. Text with vocabulary (Mil na mBeach, p. 69-78, 191 1).

p. 38a. Aided Nath Í, 'The tragic death of Nath 1' The conclusion, not in BB., is interpolated by H. from another recension resembling that of YBL.

Other copies : BB. 248« 42; YBL. col. 909 {Facs. p. 191^ 13), where it is entitled Suigidud (I. Suidigud) tellaig na Cruach?ia.

Editions : Sir Samuel Ferguson : On the legend of Dathi (R.I. A. Proc. 2 Ser. II. P.L.A. 172-3, 1883), text of LU. with transl. ; (2) H. Zimmer : Auf welchem Wege kamen die Goidelen vom Kontinent nach Irland (Preuss. Akad. Abhandl., 1912, p. 42-5), part of the text of LU. with transl.

Cp. John O'Donovan : The genealogies, tribes, and customs of Hy-Fiachrach, 1844 (p. 17-27).

The concluding portion, which is an interpolation by H, is for the most part wanting in BB., but occurs in a different order in YBL. The final sentence ' Coma I senchas na relec insin, occurs only in H. This is another tract, see infra. All three copies exhibit marked differences of reading, especially in the verse portion, which point to three different recensions.

p. 39« 22. Aided Ecliach meic Malreda, ' The tragic death of Eochaid son of Mairid.' Interpolation of H.

No other copy known.

Editions : (1) J. O'Beirne Crowe: 'Ancient Lake legends of Ireland.' (R. Hist, and Archaeol. Soc. Journ., 4 Ser. 1, 94-112, 1870), text and transl.; (2) S. H. O'Grady : 'Silva Gadelica,' 1892, text and translation.

p. 41b 9. Fotha Catha Cnucha, 'The cause of the Battle of Cnucha.' Interpolation of H.

Another copy in YBL. col. 877 [Facs. ij$b).

Editions: (ij W. M. Hennessy : 'The Battle of Cnucha' (RC. ii, 86-93, 1%7Z)- Text of LU. with translation; (2) Ernst Windisch. Text of LU., in Kurzgefasste irische Grammatik, 1879.

p. 43«. Serglige Con Culaind 7 Oenét Emire, ' The sick-bed of Cú Chulaind and the one jealousy of Emer.' The first two leaves (p. 43-46) by H, remainder by M (with interpolations). Headed in a later hand Sliclit Libair Budi Sldni, ' Version of the Yellow Book of Sláni.'

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Another copy in H. 4. 22 (T.C.D.), p. 89.

Editions: (1) Eugene O'Curry: 'The sick-bed of Cuchulainn and the only Jealousy of Eimer' (Atlantis, 1858-9). Text of LU. with transl. and facsimile ; (2) B. O'Looney : text of LU. and transl. (Facsimiles of National MSS. of Ireland, ed. J. T. Gilbert, Pt. I and II (App.), with two facsimile plates) ; (3) E. Windisch : Serglige Conculaind (Irische Texte, 1880). Text of LU. with variant readings of H. 4. 22.

Analysis and discussion : (1) H. Zimmer: Keltische Studien. 5. Ueber den compilatorischen charakter der irischen sagentexte im . . . Lebor na hUidre (Zeitschr. f. vergl. Sprachforsch. xxviii, 594-623, 1887); (2) R. Thurneysen: Die irische Helden- und Konigsage, 192 1, p. 413 ff.

p. 5o£ 15. Senchas na Relec, ' The History of Burial Places.'

Another copy in H. 3. 17 (T.C.D.), col. 73 r. In this recension some of the glosses are incorporated into the text, and there are other additions. The poem is omitted. Other copies of the poem ascribed to Cináed Ua Hartacáin are contained in the various manuscripts of the Dindslienchas, whence it has been edited and translated by E. J. Gwynn : Todd Lecture Series, vol. ix, 1906, p. 10 ff.

Edition : John O'Donovan. Text of LU. with translation (Petrie's Round Towers, R.I. A. Trans, xx, p. 98-106, 1846).

p. 52a 12. Genemain Aeda Sldne, 'Birth of Aed Sláine.' Other copies: LL. Facs. p. 145^ ; Brussels 5100-4, p. 18; Brussels 2324-40, p. 74.

Editions: (1) E. Windisch: Ein mittelirisches Kunstgedicht iiber die Geburt des Konigs Aed Sláne (K. Sachs. Gesellsch. der Wissensch. Berichte xxxvi, 1884, p. 191-243), text of LU. and LL. with translation ; (2) S. H. O'Grady : ' Silva Gadelica,' 1- 1 1, 1892, text of LU. with translation.

p. 53<2 33. Tucait innarba na nDessi i mMumain 7 Aided Chormaic, ' The cause of the expulsion of the Déssi into Munster, and the Tragic Death of Cormac' The secondary title is added by H, who has introduced various alterations in the text. Incomplete, end lost in lacuna.

Other copies: Rawl. B. 502, f. 72;' (Facs. p. 131^, 19); H. 3. i7(T.C.D.), col. 720; H. 2. 15 (T.C.D. , p. 67a; Laud 610, f. 996. These represent quite different recensions.

Editions : (1) K. Meyer : The expulsion of the DéssiV

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'Tairired na nDéssi' (Y Cymmrodor xiv, 104-35, 1901). Text of Rawl. with transl. ; (2) K. Meyer : The expulsion of the Déssi [De causis Torche na nDéisi] (Eriu iii, 135-42, 1907). Text of Laud ; (3) K. Meyer : Tucait indarba na nDéssi (Anecdota from Irish MSS. I., 15-24, 1907). Text of H. 2. 15 with readings of H. 3. 17. The LU. version has not hitherto been edited or translated.

p. 55«. Táin Bó Cúailnge, 'The cattle-spoil of Cuailnge.' Ten leaves or more lost at end. Interpolations by H.

Other copies, LU. recension : YBL. col. 573. (Facs. ija) ; Egerton 1782 p. 88«. The MSS. of the Book of Leinster and other recensions are discussed by R. Thurneysen: Die Ueberlie- ferung der Táin bó Cúailnge (ZCP. ix, 418 ff., 191 3 ; cp. x, 205 ff., 1914) in which a stemma is drawn up ; further, with analysis and in greater detail, in the same scholar's Die irische Helden- und Konigsage, 1921, p. 96 ff., which should be consulted.

Editions: The principal are: (1) John Strachan and J. G. O'Keeffe : The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na Huidre, 191 3 ; (2) Ernst Windisch : Die altirische Heldensage Táin bó Cualnge nach dem Buch von Leinster, ... in Text und Uebersetzung, 1905. Critical notes with readings from LU., Egerton 1782, etc. ; (3) L. Winifred Faraday : The Cattle Raid of Cualnge . . . transl. for the first time from Leabhar na hUidhri and the Yellow Book of Lecan, 1904 (Grimm Library). For other editions and translations, etc., consult R. I. Best : Bibliography of Irish philology and printed Irish Literature, I9I3, P-95-6.

Analysis and discussion : H. Zimmer : Keltische Studien. 5 Táin bó Cualngi (Zeitschr. f. vergl. Sprachf. xxviii, 442-75, 1887 ; R. Thurneysen, op. cit.

p. 83«. Togail Bruidtie Dá Dcrga, ' The destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel.' Opening lost owing to chasm in the manuscript. Leaf (93-4) interpolated by H.

Other copies: I, YBL. col. 716, Facs. 91a (complete); II, D. iv. 2 (R.I. A.) f. 85; Egerton 92, f. 18; Book of Fermoy, f. 128 (fragment), etc.

Edition : Whitley Stokes : The destruction of Da Derga's Hostel (RC. xxii-xxiii, 1901-02), and separately, Paris, 1902. Text with translation of LU., YBL., and variants from above.

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Analysis and discussion: Max Nettlau : On the Irish text Togail Bruidne dá Derga (RC. xii-xiv, 189 1-3); H. Zimmer : Keltische studien 5. Orgain brudne Dá Dergae {pp. cit. 554-85) ; Lucius Gwynn : The recension of the saga ' Togail Bruidne Dá Derga' (ZCP. x, 209 ff., 1914) ; R- Thurneysen : Die irische Helden- unci Konigsage, p. 621 ff., 1921.

p. 99#. Fled Bricrend, ' The feast of Bricriu.' End lost in a lacuna. Interpolations by H, p. 103-04, 105«, io83, 109-110.

Other copies: Edinb. MS. XL. (conclusion), II recension: Egerton 93, f. 20 ; Leiden Cod. Vossianus Lat. qu. 7, f. 3. Ill, H. 3. 17 (LCD.) 683, defective.

Editions: (1) E. Windisch : Fled Bricrend, ' Das Fest des Bricriu.' (Irische Texte, 1880). Text of LU., with readings of Egerton 93 and H. 3. 17; (2) George Henderson: Fled Bricrend . . . transcr. from older MSS. into the Book of the Dun Cow . . . with conclusion from Gaelic MS. XL. Edinb. . . Ed. with transl., 1899 (Irish Texts Soc.) ; (3) K. Meyer: The Edinburgh version of the Cennach ind Ruanado with transl. 'The bargain of the Strong man.' (RC. xiv, 450-91, 1893); (4) L. C. Stern : Fled Bricrend, nach dem codex Vossianus (ZCP. iv, 143-77, I903)- Text.

Analysis and discussion : (1) H. Zimmer : Keltische Studien 5. Pled Bricrend {pp. cit. 623-61, 1887) ; (2) R. Thurneysen: Zu irischen Texten. Die Ueberlieferung der Fled Bricrend (ZCP. iv, 193-206, 1903); (3) ib.: Die irische Helden- und Konigsage, 1921, p. 447 ff. For further references and trans- lations, consult R. I. Best: Bibliography, p. 90-91.

p. 113«. Siaburcharpat Con Culaind, ' The phantom chariot of Cú Chulainn.' With interpolation by H, p. 115a.

Other copies in Egerton 88 f. 14 v. ; Brit. Mus. Add. 33,993, f. 2b.

Editions : (1) J. O'Beirne Crowe : Siabur-charpat Con Culaind. From Lebor na H-Uidre . . . Translated and edited. (R. Hist, and Archaeol. Assoc, of Ireland. Journ.4 Ser. i, 37 iff., 1 871). Transl. repr. in Eleanor Hull's Cuchullin Saga, 1898. (2) H. Zimmer : Keltische Beitráge I. (Zeitschr. f. deutsches Alterthum xxxii, 249-55, 1888). Text of LU. with tr. (3) K. Meyer : Siaburcharpat Conculaind. From Brit. Museum MS. Egerton 88, collated with Additional 33,993. (Anecdota from Irish MSS. Ill, 49-56, 1910.)

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Analysis and discussion : R. Thurneysen : Die irische Helden- und Kdnigsage, 1921, p. 567 ff. Cp. ZCP. xii, 284.

p. 1 1 5<5 18. Cath Caimd Chonaill ria Diarmait mac Aeda Slant for Guari Aidni, 'The Battle of Cam Conaill (won) by Diarmait son of Aed Sláne over Guare of Aidne.' Interpolation ofH.

Other copies : LL. Facs. 2j6b (abridged) ; cp. YBL. col 795 (Facs. p. 132). II recension: Egerton 1782 f. 59$.

Editions: (I) W. Stokes: The Battle of Cam Conaill. (ZCP. iii, 203-19, 1900). Text of LU., etc., with translation ; (II) S. H. O'Grady : Silva Gadelica 1-11, [Fragmentary Annals from Egerton 1782. Text, I. p. 396 ff. ; transl. II. 431 ff.]

p. 117^20. Comthoth Lóegairi co cretim 7 a aided adfét in seel so, ' The conversion of Loegaire to the faith, and his tragic death this tale relates.' Interpolation of H.

Another copy in H. 3. 18 (T.C.D.), p. 358, i.e. Senchas Mór, representing another version.

Editions : (1) Charles Plummer : The conversion of Loegaire, and his death (RC. vi, 162-72, 1884.) Text of LU. with transl. and notes ; (2) W. Stokes : Loegaire's conversion and death (Tripartite Life of Patrick, p. 562-7, 1887). Text of LU. with translation ; (3) John O'Donovan : text and transl. of H. 3. 18 version, in G. Petrie's History and Antiquities of Tara Hill (R.I. A. Trans, xviii, 71-6, 1837).

p. 119« 1. Fdstini Airt meic Cuind 7 a chretem, ' Prophecy of Art son of Conn, and his faith.'

No other copy known.

Edition : John MacNeill : Three poems in Middle-Irish relating to the Battle of Mucrama (R.LA. Proa, 3 Ser. iii, 529-39, 1895). Text of LU. with transl. and notes.

p. 120« 3. Echtra Condla Chaim meic Cuind Chétchathaig, 1 The adventures of Connla the comely, son of Conn the Hundred-fighter.'

Other copies: YBL. cols. 399,914 (Facs. pp. 16, 194); Rawl. B. 512, f. 120; Harleian 5280, f. 65; Egerton 1782, f. 19 v ; Egerton 88, 1 1 v (abridged) ; 23 N 10 (R.I.A.), p. 70.

Editions: (1) J. O'B. Crowe: Mythological legends of ancient Ireland. No. 1. The Adventures of Condla Ruad (R Hist, and Archaeol. Assoc, of Ireland Joum., 3 Ser. iii, 118 ff., 1874).

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Text of LU. with transl. ; (2) E. Windisch. Text of LU. in Kurzgefasste ir.ische Grammatik, 1880 (App. Ill); (3) J. Pokorny: Conle's Abenteuerliche Fahrt (ZCP. xvii, 193 ff.), text and transl. For other translations and discussions of the tale, consult Best : Bibliography, p. 106-07.

p. 120$ 27. Cethri arda in Domain, 'The four quarters of the world.' Breaks off, owing to lacuna in MS.

Another copy in Book of Fermoy, p. 83, which has Finit. Amen for Cont'd dip sin of LU.

Ed. and transl. from LU.by Douglas Hyde (Celtic Rev. x, 141). p. I2irt. \Imram Brain meic Febail~\, 'The Voyage of Bran son of Febal.' Conclusion only, owing to chasm in MS.

For other copies, see K. Meyer : The voyage of Bran son of Febal. Ed. with transl., notes, and glossary, I., 1895.

p. \2\a 25. Tochmarc Eviere, 'The courtship of Emer.' p. 123-127 interpolations of H.

Other copies: D. iv. 2 (R.I. A.) f. 8or; 23 N 10 (R.I. A.) p. 21; Harleian 5280 f. 17 (2y)r ; Book of Fermoy f. 124 (p. 207^) ; Rawl. B. 512, f. 117;' ; Egerton 92 f. 24, fragment.

Editions: (1) K. Meyer: The oldest version of the Tochmarc Emire (RC. xi, 434 ff., 1890). Text of Rawl. B. 512 with transl. ; (2) Tochmarc Emire la Coinculaind. Aus Harleian 5280 [with variants of LU., D. iv. 2, Fermoy, e/c] (ZCP. iii, 229 ff., 1900 ; cp. vii, 510, 1910).

K. Meyer: The wooing of Emer (Archaeol. Review i, 1888). Transl. of LU. and D. iv. 2. Repr. E. Hull: Cuchullin Saga 1898.

Analysis and discussion : (1) R. Thurneysen and others : Zu Tochmarc Emire (ZCP. viii, 498 ff., 1912) ; R. Thurneysen : Die irische Helden-und Kdnigsage, 1921, p. $77 ff.

p. 128^. Compert Con Culaind, 'The conception of CÚ Chulainn.' Interpolated by H; end wanting, owing to lacuna in MS.

Other copies : I. H. 4. 22 (T.C.D.), p. 46 ; 23 N 10 (R.I. A.), p. 62 ; Egerton 88, 12 v. II. Egerton 1782, f. 79 r.

Editions : E. Windisch : Irische Texte, 1880. Text of

LU. and Egerton, 1782. (2) K. Meyer: Feis tige Becfoltaig.

Aus Stowe D. 4. 2 (ZCP. v, 500-04, 1905); R. Thurneysen: Zu

irischen Handschriften, 191 2, p. 31-41, critical text, with transl.

Analysis and discussion : (1) H. Zimmer : Keltische Studien

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5, Compert Conculaind (Zeitschr. f. vergl. Sprachforsch, xxviii, 419 ff., 1887); (2) R. Thurneysen : Die irische Helden- und Konigsage, 1921, p. 268 ff.

p. 129^7. Toclimarc Etaine, ' The courtship of Etain.' Three accounts: (1) \29a-b 19, end only, owing to lacuna in MS.; (2) 129^ 20-130^ 18 ; (3) 130^ 19-132^ 45, defective in middle and at end.

Other copies: YBL. col. 876 {Facs. 1 75«) ; Egerton 1782, f. io6r ; H. 3. 18 (T.C.D.) p. 528.

Editions: (1) E. Miiller : Two Irish tales (RC. iii, 351 ff., 1878). Text of Egerton, with transl. ; (2) E. Windisch : Irische Texte, 1880. Text of LU. and Egerton; (3) A. H. Leahy: Heroic romances of Ireland I— II, 1905-06. Text of LU. 3 with transl. of both versions (revised by J. Strachan).

Analysis and discussion: H. Zimmer : Keltische Studien 5. Tochmarc Étáine (Zeitschr. f. vergl. Sprachforsch. xxviii, 585 ff., 1887) ; (2) L. C. Stern : Das Marcher) von Etain (ZCP. v, 522 ff., 1905). Text of H. 3. iS, with transl. ; (3) A. Nutt : Tochmarc Étáine (R.C. xxvii, 325 ff. 1906); (4) Lucius Gwynn : The two versions of Tochmarc Étáine (ZCP. ix, 353 ff., 191 3) ; (5) R. Thurneysen : Die irische Helden- und Konigsage, 1921, p. 598 if.

p. 133a. [Compert Mongdn], 'The conception of Mongán.' Beginning lost, owing to lacuna in MS.

Other copies: YBL. col. 911 Facs. 192b; H. 3. 18 (T.C.D. ), p. 555 ; 23 N 10 (R.I.A.), p. 63 ; Egerton 88, f. 15/;.

Edition: K. Meyer: The Voyage of Bran, vol. i, 1895, p. 42 ff. Text from above, with translation.

p. 133« 25. Seel asa mberar eombad hé Find mac Cumaill Mongdn 7 aid dia fil Aided Fothaid Airgdig .... 'A story from which it is inferred that Mongán was Eind son of Cumall, and the cause of the tragic death of Fothad Airgdech.'

Other copies: YBL. col. gi2'(Facs. p. 193«); Betham (R.I.A.) 145, p. 64 ; Egerton 88, f. 15/7.

Edition : K. Meyer, op. cit. p. 49 ff. Text from above, with translation.

p. 134« 12. Seel Mongdn, ' Story of Mongán.'

Other copies: YBL. col. 913 (Facs. 193b); Betham 145, p. 66; H. 3. 18 (T.C.D.) p. 555/;.

Edition: K. Meyer, op. cit. p. 52 ff. with translation.

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p. 134^ 9. Tucait Baile Mongán, 'The occasion of Mongan's Frenzy.' Ed. and transl. from LU., Y, and Betham by K. Meyer, op. cit. p. 56 ff.

p. 134^ 36. Inna hinada hi filet and erred U/ad, 'The places in which are the heads of the Ulster champions.' Poem, beginning only ; MS. breaks off here. No other copy known.

FACSIMILE. — The Facsimile edition issued by the Academy was due to the initiative of Mr. (afterwards Sir) John Gilbert, the well-known archivist. In an unpublished letter to Whitley Stokes, then in India, dated 28th April, 1869, Gilbert writes: " The loss of O'Donovan and Curry, and the weakness of Dr. Todd, have seriously interfered with publications in the Irish language, and after a good deal of practical experience, I have come to the conclusion that our best work would be to print some of our oldest texts accurately from the MSS., but without translations or annotations. We have fortunately at the Academy the best Irish penman living, Mr. O'Longan, and I have for some time past been anxious to bring his talents to a practical bearing in the shape of lithographic writing, and have succeeded so far as to have already some pages of Leabhar na Huidhre on the stone, of which I shall send you proofs as soon as possible. The copy is made in the most careful manner by O'Longan, and before being transferred to the stone every

line and letter on the page is checked over by Mr. O'Looney

I hope you will approve of the plan, and at all events give me credit for trying to do the best under adverse circumstances."

The edition appeared at the end of 1870, with a preface signed by Gilbert, and a description of the MS. and its contents adapted from O'Curry's Catalogue. The object was to re- produce the written page in its integrity, letter for letter, line for line, admitting no conjectural restorations, lost or illegible letters and passages 'being indicated by equivalent spaces within square brackets. The initial and ornamental letters were engraved from tracings. In addition, two pages of the lithographed transcript were tinted and reproduced in colours with the object of exhibiting the style and present appearance of the MS. These, it must be said, are most deceptive, having almost the appearance of photographs, and have indeed been mistaken for such, thus conveying a false

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impression as to the fidelity of the reproduction. The defect of the Facsimile, which met with severe and unmerited criticism from Whitley Stokes,1 resides not so much in errors of tran- scription or failures to decipher, which, considering the condition of the MS. and the difficulty of the text, are not too numerous — less indeed than would have been made by most learned editors of the day—as in the method of reproduction itself. At its best it is but a crude attempt to portray the original, giving to it a homogeneity which it does not possess, though the facsimilist must have been sensible of the great variety of the script, for in places he did his best to imitate the general appearance of the page, though he could not reproduce the letter forms. Notwith- standing its obvious imperfections, the Facsimile has been of great service to scholarship, as also the other two executed by the same scribe, namely, Leabhar Breacc, 1872-6, and the Book of Leinster, 1880.

We have indicated the uncorrected misreadings of the Facsimile in the foot-notes, not in any disparagement of the work of O'Longan, for whom both as copyist and calligrapher we have the greatest respect, but solely to remove any doubt that might be entertained as to the true reading of the manuscript.

The following should be added to the readings of the Facsimile : —

1. 166 Noma; but MS. dubious; p. 16 note8 rofurmid ; p. 19 note a us ; 1. n 16 MA, and possibly MS. also ; p. 39 note2 tna ; p. 56 note a 1. 3 fir, 1. 5 firgala, note 12 iPirraid, note u a( )1 om. ; 1. 1593 frebaid ; 1. 1614 Crom ; 1. 1763 imcomarc- tár; 1. 1868 sow; 1. 1904 imdai ; 1. 1938 Adamnán ; 1. 2322 clé ; 1. 3784 drundechta ; 1. 3927 cet/za ; p. 124 note J fuach ; p. 138 note A inde om., no at/^ for wómimXur ; p. 185 note a Emanuel ; 1. 6065 comráicne ; 1. 6069 brát/zair ; 6268 t with m supmscr., for tra; 1. 6723 haurcur; 1. 6968 leth; 1. 7533 mindoig; p. 246 note l briat, note 2 ruanada ; 1. 8226 febas ; 8802 c/zend ;

1 Rev. Celtique II, p. 430-31, 1875. Further, " On the Facsimiles published by the Royal Irish Academy. Letter to the chairman of the Committee of Polite Literature and Antiquities, by Whitley Stokes, Simla, 1875." A rejoinder to "Report to the Council from the Committee on Polite Literature and Antiquities on inaccuracies of transcription alleged to exist in the Academy's edition of Leabhar na H-Uidhri." Signed, Samuel Ferguson, Chairman, 29th of May, 1875.

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1. 9636 du'mi ; p. 305 note a Etiair; I. 10458 tús ; I. 10617 caras.

Edition. — When the present edition was planned, it was not judged advisable to attempt a diplomatic reproduction with the aid of special types, or to indicate obscure letters by pointing or undermarking, as employed in certain works of a similar character. We have acted on the principle that if a letter can be read at all, it should be printed in the text in the ordinary way. Obscure and doubtful readings are noted at the foot of the page. Any attempt short of photography is rarely success- ful in conveying a true impression of the written page. With Lebor na Huidre it was less necessary to have recourse to a typographical facsimile, as the lithographic Facsimile of 1870 can still be referred to if fuller information is desired as to graphic forms or the disposition of the text. The various hands are however indicated by different founts : A, pica ; M, small pica, and H, long primer within brackets.

The aim has been to produce an accurate and readable transcript. Words written continuously have been separated as specified below. Capitals have been introduced for proper names, but not to mark the beginning of sentences, unless in the manuscript. Large capitals, often used out of place, are not reproduced, nor double capitals IS, IN, etc., with which the beginning of a sentence is often indicated in Irish MSS.

Marginal and interlinear scholia are printed under the text, and the hand indicated. An exception has been made of the two precatory entries, which because of their importance are printed, perhaps injudiciously, as part of the text (11. 2764-82).

The punctuation of the original has on the other hand been strictly adhered to, as it affects the sense of a passage, and represents the interpretation of the scribe. Where a point (the sole punctuation used) is omitted at the end of a sentence, a slight space has been inserted for convenience sake, and similarly paragraphs have been introduced.

The expansion of abbreviations has only been indicated by italics when points of grammar or orthography were involved, particularly in terminations. Where no such question could arise, as in single letter-strokes, k, vi, n, syllable-strokes for ar, er, en, the symbols for ar, air, etc., the extension has been silent. A profusion of italics in such instances serves no scientific

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purpose, and merely makes difficult reading. On the other hand the symbols for con, ur, us, are indicated by italics when representing inflected forms. Certain words almost invariably abbreviated are left unextended, as their form varies according to period, e.g. : 7, dl, irh, which might stand for ocus, acus, didiu, didu, immurgu, immorro. It was not our purpose to establish a particular form. Also .i. = ed on (Lat. id est), ,r. = retoiric, l.r. (p. 91), í = nó (Lat. uel), z (p. 86) = Zj\rti or Zi]ti]tíov (cp. Lib. Ardm. f. 23 v et passim) ; further the symbol

t (PP- 13, 35)-

The hyphen is used to separate transported n and t from initial vowels — a n-olc, in t-ara, but this is not needed before a capital, hence i nEre. The apostrophe is used to denote elision in d' = do or di ; similarly with the possessives m\ f (tá'), and when initial a {6 Hbath, 6 ,tchon?iaic) or i (co 'mmáro- marbtha 8085) is elided. The frequent omission of f is not noted. No letter is added to the text except [n], when the «-stroke is omitted, and to this attention is always drawn in a foot-note.

Only accents legible in the MS. are given. But besides the well marked accents, as clear as the rest of the text, there are many faint thin lines, often hard to distinguish from scratches on the vellum. In dealing with these we have been guided by probability. In the MS. the accent is often written apart from the vowel to which it belongs, generally over the following letter. When the latter is a vowel some editors print e.g. cidn, but this cannot be done when the accent is over a consonant, as in Ur, with accent over the r. Frequently the accent is quite out of place, as if inserted carelessly after the line had been completed. For example, do dcnam 443, dódenám MS. ; hi rét 461, hiret MS. In line 134, here printed Slc'ib Sina 7 is e ro scrib cona Idim fein, the scribe has put the first accent over the s and the second over the b of sleib, the third over the sc of scrib, and the fourth over the a of cona. The principle we have adopted is to put the accent over the vowel to which it belongs. We have put it over the first vowel of the diphthongs de, óe, ía(i'), íu(i), and úa(i) ; but over the second vowel of the diphthongs at, ol, id, which are thus conveniently distinguished from d, 6, u, followed by a palatal consonant. The difficulty in the case of eo is that during the Middle Irish period the stress appears to have shifted to the 0 ;

d

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here we have endeavoured to follow the varying usage of the scribes.

Proclitics are separated from following words, e.g. preposi- tions, articles, and possessive pronouns from nouns ; negatives, conjunctions, and the particles no and ro from verbs, but not the first element of verbs in deuterotonic form, hence no gcbad, ro chuir, but dobeir, damberat, and similarly rofetammar. Combi- nations of proclitics are left undivided — don, isind, ara, conct, nos cuir, dianom thisad, cor imthig (but co rrdnic), nochonom thd ; so forms of the copula, rop, roptar, robadam, combo (but co mbol, etc., for the substantive verb).

However, certain combinations beginning with a proclitic are retained, such as indechtsa, hifesta, indossa, indiu, indé, inso, insin, ani, afrithisi, aridisi, etc. (but ar frithise 4509, alaile, diarailiu, friaraili (but co alaile 8334).

Enclitics are commonly joined to the preceding word — damsa, a bensom. Somewhat inconsistently the demonstratives are separated in a lid sin, in molad sa, etc., and the anaphoric side, attached to pronouns and verbs— dibside, tncside, has been separated from nouns — a hainm side, dia sil side, etc. In iar sin, and sin, etc., sin is, of course, stressed.

In the obscure passages called retorics the division of words is often a matter of conjecture.

In the preparation of the text, resumed at long intervals often, a certain inconsistency in the extension of abbreviations, separation of words, accentuation, use of capitals, etc., was almost inevitable. The following inadvertent departures from the general practice outlined above should be noted :

1. 62 . meic delete stop. 1. 107 read eter I. 113 read inso sis.

I. 130 read na dilend

II. 374, 634 Culum, note, sic. 1. 867 Chollum note, sic.

1. 915 ebed note, sic. 1. 1078 read xo sechestar 1. 1097 ar note, sic. 1. 1092 read usque 1. 1 1 34 read aini

INTRODUCTION xli

1. 12 1 8 read precept 1. 1 268 read m'fola 1. 1433 read nátharni 1. 1558 \a\xm note, sic. 1. 1743 read na mbertatár 1. 1884 read eXir

I. 2230 read diamba

II. 241 1, 2430, 2431 read inrx'x 1. 2642 spirtállaib

1. 2741 midfedsom note, sic.

1. 2768 issie note, sic.

1. 2909 read ConacWW, sic.

1. 3002 iaich note, sic

1. 3123 read friaraili

1. 3132 mirmaili note, sic.

1. 3191 read'R.o ferad ; fad MS.

1. 3371 read di ag

1. 3446 read fo bith

I. 3553 mbetis, MS. has mb" with accent over mb.

II. 3724, 3987 read i lie

1. 3893 dothesarainbsea note, sic.

1. 3918 Dar supply ar

1. 4CO3 read Érgeseo

1. 401 1 read Ma.nna.nnan

1. 4033 read connaro

1. 4120 read mótrét

1. 4165 Fedelmed note, sic.

1. 4195 mbés note, sic.

p. 138 note0 add, in marg.

1. 4571 read fris teit

H- 5156, 7533 read di ág

1. 5336 read i n-acciged

1. 5728 srid note, sic.

1. 5913 tadcith note, sic.

1. 6090 firiu note, sic.

1. 6787 Ach note, sic.

1. 7330 read ro breccad

1. 7469 chumachtom note, sic.

1. 79 10 read immaric é\ud

1. 8140 read nádbod

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1. 8237 read áine

1. 8668 read immaáig

I. 8701 read cóicid

1. 8767 read do scirred 5

I. 8987 read hWclla

I. 9126 read dommo

1. 9168 read rolámair

I. 9569 ConachitdiX MS.

II. 9593, 9601 Conac/itta MS.

1. 9738 luic note, sic for sluic.

1. 1 002 1 read each a

1. 10127 um «cte, sic for am

1. 10476 read cetingen

1. 1 060 1 raai Briug

1. 10647 read forin

1. 10854 read Maigi

1. 10920 read aranicubsa

DESCRIPTION OF PLATES.

PL I. Page 55. Opening page of Táin Bó Cúailnge. Handwriting of A with interpolation by H and corr. M (col. b. 11-13). See p. 143. This page is much faded in places, and the stiff and wrinkled membrane with its polished surface resists all attempts to obtain a legible reproduction. The firobatio fiennae mail 7iniri mc mc cuind can be discerned above the word duib, col. b, line 1 ; cuiwd is faintly traceable in the negative, but the membrane is stained, due, perhaps, to the use of a re-agent. The title, only partly traceable here, appears to be in the hand of M, the line having been left blank by A. Cp. 7b4i, and p. 5, where the Amra begins without title, the first line being filled by a quatrain in the hand of M. M would seem to have begun to transcribe at the end of col. b, when he added the title and his firobatio fte?inae, H afterwards erasing what he wrote.

PI. IT. Page 70. Táin Bó Cúailnge. Handwriting of M with inter- polation by H (col. b). The interpolated portion is written over a washed and abraded surface, the ink appearing somewhat paler than the rest of the page. There is evidence of retracing on this page. Note in col. a, last line but one, the r of resi;/. The probatio fiennae on the upper margin was evidently written after the invocation Oémat (O Emanuel), which is in darker ink, as if retraced. Observe through the natural hole in the membrane, col. a, the ess of preceding leaf, which is in the handwriting of M, but the head, in paler ink, has been added later to the first s.

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Toirorma2 o tát Friijiae. m<?c sin Gomer mac Iaféd. la Da mac Magog meic Iafeth meic Noi .i. Baath 7 Ibath. Baath mac doside Fenius Farsaid athair na Scithecda .i. Fenius mac Baath meic Magog meic Iafeth meic Noi 7 rl 5

Ibad da.110 in mac aile do Magog mac doside Elonius 1 Alanius. Tri meic aicis/afe .i. Armon Negua Hisicón. Coic meic ic Armón .i. Gothus. Uolegothus. Cebidus. Burgandus. Longubardus. Negua da.no .iii. meic les .i. Uandalus. Saxus. Bogardus. Hisicón da.no .ml. meic 10 aice .i. Francus. Romanus Albanus o ta Albannai i nAsia Britus ó raté?r Inis Bretan.

Is and sain ro rannad in domun i tri rannaib .i. Eoraip. Afraic. Asia .i. Sem i nAsia. Cam i nAfraic. Iafed i nEoraip. 7 is é cétfer de sil Iafeth tánic i nEoraip 15 .i. Alaniusa mac Ibath meic Magog meic Iafeth meic Noi

Is amlaid tánic Alanius 7 a tri meic les .i. Armon y3 Negua 7 Hisicon conid i fus ro chlannaigset na m<?cu atchuadamar. Saxus mac Negua meic Alanii meic Ibath meic Magog meic Iafeth meic Noi. is uad Saxain. 20

Iaban da.no mac Iafeth iru'/c Noi .iiii.4 m^c acas/<r/e .i. Elisa. Tarsis. Cethim. Dodanim.

Tarsis is úad5 7 Celtecdai. Cethim. is uad Cethei. uadibs/afe ainmnigther cathir na Cipr<?cda .i. Citheum. Dodanim da.no úads/V/e Ródii. is úadib sin ro fodlait inse 25 Mara Torren cona cenelaib écsamlaib 7 cona6 mberlaib.

* gl. is uad rater Alania i nEoraip I

1 The opening leaf is lost. Sex aetates sunt mundi is the title in Rawlinson, B 502, fol. Ofir. * T en vedette. 3 final stroke of \\ and ~ barely legible.

4 add. above line. 5 supply Tarsi, Rawl. 6 na very faint.

B

2 [SEX AETATES MUNDI] [la31-lb34

Is iat sain .xu. primchenela1 clainni Iaféd. cona fochenel- aib. ro selbsat feranna imda isinn Asia ó Sléib Imai 7 o Sleib Tuir co Sruth Tanai 7 connici in Scithia. 7 ro 30 selbsat in nEoraip uli connici in n-acian muridi fuineta Insi Bretan 7 in nEspain ulide.

De chlannaib Iafeth mév'c Noi connici so cona primchenelaib 7 cona ngabalaib 7 a ferannaib eter Asia 7 Eoraip

35 De chlannaib2 Cam meic Noi so sis ifechtsa

Cam 7 Oliua a ben .iiii. m<?/c leo .i. Chus. 7 Mesram. Futh. 7 Cannan. Chus uads/afe Chusi. Ethiopia a hai[;/]m3 side indiu. Mesram. is úad Egiptus. Futh. is uad

lb Afraicdaia Futhei | a n-ainm side fecht aile riam. 7 is

40 úad rater Sruth Fuith. Cannan. is uad Cannannai. is he a ferann side ro gabsat meic \srae\ iar tain íar dilgend4 na Cannanna 7 iarna n-innarba.

Cus mac Cam .uii. meic les .i. Saba, is uad Sabei. Ebila. uads/i/e Getuli filet i ndithruib na hAfraice.

45 Sabatha. is uad Sabatheni. Astabari iiTi a n-ainm indiu. Recma. Sabata. Acha. Nebroth is leiszV/e ro cumtaiged in Babiloin ar thus cia ro cumtaiged la Nin mac Beil iar tain in tan ro gab ríge Asár. Babilonia .i. confusio .i. cumasc iarsinni ro cumaiscthea na berlai

5oisind luc sain 7 is la Nebroth ro cumtaiged Arach ainm aile di Edisa. 7 is leis ro cumtaiged Achad 7 Cabann 7 is é a hainm side indiu Seleucia ond rig Seleucio ro ráded i mMaig Sennar atat sin ule.

Is de sil Nebroith Asúr ó tat Asardai iar fairind 1 is de

65SÍ1 Séin4 meic Noi in tAsur .i. Asur mac Séin4 meic Noi. 7 is and ro genair i mMaig Sennár 7 is leis ro cumtaiged Ninues 7 Thala 7 Resen .i. cathir mor fil eter5 Ninues 7

» gl. I Libei [A j

1 very faint. * asp. faint, om. Facs. * n- stroke om. * sic. 5 between cols :

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Thala. .ii. mac ic Recma mac Chus meic Cam meic Noi .i. Saba 7 Dadam. Saba mac Recma per sin scrib- thair a ainm. Saba mac Chus per samech scribthair a eo ainm side.

Clanna Mesram meic Cam .meic Noi .i. Ludim1 Anamim. Labaim. Nepthaim. Pethrosim. Chesloim. Is úadib sin ro genatar na Filistinnai 7 Capturim 7 ciniuda imda aile 7 nitat achinti indiu ar ro chloemcoiset2 65 .( )3anmand.

De chlannaib Cannan meic Cam meic Noi so sis.

Carman mac Cam meic Noi .xi. m^c les .i.

4Sidon Aracheus

Cetheus Sineus 70

Iebuseus Arcadius

Amnorrexius Samarius

Eutheus Amatheu&s.4 Gergesius

Sidon is úad ainmnigther5 in chathir .i. Sidon isind75 Foenici. Arachius is les ra cumtaiged Arachas .i. cathir fil ar agid Tripolim i fail Slebe Leuain. Aradius. is uad atat Aradai1 is iatside ro selbsat6 in1 n-innis dianid ainm Aradum muinchend cumurig etarru 71 tracht n( )ce.8 I Samarius. is uad atat Samari is leis ro 2a

cumtaiged Samaria. a si

De clannaib Sem meic Noi só sis

Sem mac Noi. Olla a ben side is dia sil side na hEbraide uli .u. meic9 aici .i. Elam. is uad Elamitae.

a gl. .i. c. [= cathir\ [A]

1 faintly traceable. - coiset, traceable. 3 Meg., a n- Rawl. 4"4 in one col. 5 t/zer faint, ainmnit" Facs. 6 selbsadar Facs. 7 i« very indistinct om. Facs.

"* Meg., na Foenice, Rawl. 9 iii added later above line. B 2

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85 toisig Persidis Siriae iatsztfe Asur. is úad atat Asardai iar fir 7 is leis ro cumtaiged Ninues 7 Thala 7 Resen .i. cathir mór fil eter Ninue 7 Thala. Arafaxat. is uad Caldei. Lidi.1 úad atá Lidia Sarum is uad atá Siria. is í ha2 hardchathir side Damascus. Arafaxat mac Sem

90 meic Noi mac doside Sela. mac doside Eber. is uad ainmnigté'r Ebraide .i. ó3 Eber mac Sala meic Arafaxat meic Sem meic Noi.

Dá mace, ic Éber .i. Falec 7 Iactan. Falec .i. diuisio .i. fodail .i. ar is na amsir ro fodlait na berlai.

95 Iactan mac Eber .xiii. meic aci .i.

'Elmodad.

Ebal

Saleph

Abimael

Asarmo

Saba

Iare

Ofir

Aduram

Euila

Aduzal

Iobab4

Decla

100

Atat .iiii. xl. cenela día sil sin isind India 7 is iat gabait ule feranna na Indiae .i. othá in sruth aníar connici 105 in n-acian

Clanna Saram meic Sem meic Noi .i. Us. is uad atát Traconitidi 7 is les ro cumtaiged in Damaisc. etir Pasilisitina 7 Coelensiria atá a ferand side. Ul. is uad atát Armiannai. Gether is uad atat Arcannai. Mes. is no uad atat Meones. de sil Samar meic Sem meic Noi dóib sein ule 7 is i nAsia atat.

De senchas na torotlior .i. na luprucan5 7 na fom orach in só sis.

Fechtas ro boi Noi in6 tabernacuil ina chotlud ar n-ól nsfína 7 is6 hé lomnocht co tánic a rn^c a dochom .i. Cam

1 after L a letter has been erased. '- b coir. h. 3 add. above line.

4-1 in one col. 5 over p is written c, and over c, p. 6 sic.

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co n-aca anW ro bai 7 co nderna gári imbi 7 coro innis día bráthrib .i. do Iáfeth 7 do Sém 7 dodeochatarsz'í/e 7 a cúl rempo arnaictís1 féli a n-athar 7 doratsat a étach taris.

Atrácht Noí iarsin asa chotlud 7 ro fallsiged dó 120 Cam dia fochaitbiud2 iarsin 7 robennach in dis n-aile. Conid he Cam des/de cetduni ro mallachad iar nilind 7 conid hé comarba Cáin iar nilind 7 conid húad ro genatar luc//rupain 7 fomóraig 7 goborchind3 7 cech ecosc I dodelbda archena fil for doinib. 7 conid aire 2b tucad dilgend for clannaib Cam 7 tucad a ferand do 126 m^caib Israel i comarda na mallactan cétna. Conid hé sen bunad na torothor 7 ni de sil Cain doib amal adfiadat na Goedil ar niro mair ni dia sil side iar nilind ar rope fochond ná dilend do bádud clann Cáin 7 ro bátea cid 130 clanna Sed ule immalle friu acht Nóe cona trmcaib 7 cona cethri mnáib amal innises Moisi mac Ammra ius'mi Genis ind recta 7 Dia féin dorat in recht sain do Moisi i Sléib Sína 7 is e ro scrib cona láim fein.

Is iat so sis airich na haesi tanaisi iar lini genelaig 135 Sém.

\s.

Noi

ael

.s.

Sem

ac

.s.

Arfaxat

cccxxxix

.s.

Sala

accexxxiii4

.s.

Heber

cccclxiiii

• S.

Falec

ccxxxix

.s.

Reu

ccxxxix

.s.

Same

ccxxx

.s.

Nachor

clxuii

.s.

Tara

lxx5

145

1 n add. above line, = arna aictis. 2 add 7 row mallach, Rawl. 3 r add. above line. 4 sic. 5"6 in col. sic.

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Tara .iii. meic les .i. Abraam. Nachor. Aran, mac dond Aran sin Lóth ro batar dawo di ingin aci .i. Melcha

7 Iascha di ingin Aráin meic Thára sethracha do Loth1 7 150 is inund Iascha 7 Sarra 7 atbath Aran rena athair .i. re

Tára 7 is hesein cetmac atbath rana6 hathair far nilind 7 is and atbath i nÚr Caldeor/m anW atbeir in fili goede- lach sin.

Cetmac as2 marb riana athair 155 innisfet tria bard( )3 brecht.

Aran mac Tára meic Nachair iarna( )c//ur4 tar in recht10

Abraam 7 Nachor tucsat da mnai .i. Sarra 7 Melcha. di ingin a mbráthar fein .i. di ingin Arain meic Tára.

160 Tuc ém Abram Sarra dianid comainm Iascha. Tuc im Nachor Melcha rue Melcha uiii. m^cu do Nachor it he so a n-anmand side .i.5 Hus. Buz Camuel. Chaseth. Azau Feldas Iadilafac. Bathuel. is uadside rogenair Lauana 7 Rabecca.b Husc mac Nachoir is úad lob. 7 is dia sil

165 Buz( )G Balam in drui. Camuel da.no athair Sirorum eside. Caratben Nachar .i. Roma is iside mathaiir7 Tabe. 7 Goom8 7 Thaas 7 Maachai.

Dend ais tanaise9 connici so anuas.

Den tres ais so sis ifechtsa10

170 In tres aes in domain is e so lin bliW//a10 fil inti .dccccxlu .i. o gen Abraim9 co gabáil ríge do Dauid i Tir Caldeor u m. 10 | n

» gl. (ilius [A] b felia [A] • 1 Chus. [A]

1 LotK, MS. 2 Cetmac as, in the text, remainder in margin, barely legible.

3 d fairly certain, following letter like n, read bardne ; BB. &* LB. I I3b 5 have briathraib beclit. 4 cut away, iarna rachor asin recht, LB., BB. 5 om. Facs.

6 end of line, MS. mutilated, something probably lost, 7 (?) om. Rawl. 7 sic MS. 8 second letter indistinct, Gaom Rawl. 9 only legible against the light, ai barely traceable. 10 very faint. ll breaks off, following leaves lost.

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Acht cena ol se. a rí failsigfitsea firinne duitsiu. 7 3a iarfaigim dona druidib ar thus Cid atá i foluch fond erlar sa inar fiadnaise. ro ráidset na druid nochon 175 etammar ol siat. Rofetarsa ol se. atá loch us« and. fegtar 7 claitev. ro claided 7 frith. b A fáthe ind rig ol in mac abraid cid atá i mmedon ind locha. Ni etamar or siat. rofetarsa ol se. atát da clárchiste mora and in- agid tagid y tucthar as. 7 tucad ás. iso

A druide ol in mac abraid cid atá etir na clarlestraib út. 7 ni etatar. rofetarsa ol se. atá seolbrat and y'2 tuctar as. 7 frith in seol timmarcte etir na da chlárchiste. Abraid a éolcho ol in m^c cid atá i mmedon ind étaig út. 7 niro recratar. ar niro tucsatar. Atat dá crúim and íss ol se .i. cruim derg 7 cruim gel. scailter in t-étach ro scailed in seolbrat. ro batar na di chruim ina cotlud and. roráid in mac fégaitsi i ndignet innose na biasta. Atfaracht each dib co araile co rabe cechtar de ic sroiniud araile 7 co rabatar ic imletrad 7 ic imithi 7 noinnarbad 190 in chruim dib araile co medón in tiúil 7 in fecht n-aill coa imel.

Dorónsat fa thri fon innasin. In chruim rúad trá ba fand ar thus 7 roinnarbad co himel ind étaig. In chruim taitnemach im ba fand fo déoid 7 ro teich isin 195 loch 7 rotinastar in seol fo chétoir. Ro íarfaig in mac dona druidib innisid ar se cid follsiges in t-ingnad so. Ni etamar ar siat

Dogensa ar in mac a follsigud dond rig.

» afn add. bet. columns by later hand. h in loch and add. in marg. by a later hand.

1 Acephalous, four leaves being lost. This leaf has the signature serted later.

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200 Is é in loch flathius in domuin uile. is e in seól do lathiusa a ri. Is iat na dá chruim na da nert .i. do nertsu co mBretnaib 7 nert Saxan.

Do nertsu in chruim ruad is i1 roinnarbad ar thus don flathius. Nert Sachsan im in cruim gel ro gab in seól uile

20sacht bee .i. ro gab Iwiis'- Bretan acht bee. Coron-i;marba

3b nert Bretan fo deoid iat | Tusu im a ri Bretan eirg asin dun sa ar ni chaemais a chumtac 7 sir Innis Bretan 7 fogéba do dun fadéin. ro raid in ri cia do chomai[w]mso3 ol se ro recair in gilla Ambróis ol se mo ainmse is é

2iosein in tAmbrois Gleotic ri Bretan.

Can do ceiii-l ol in ri. Consul Romanach m'athairse ol se 7 bid hé só mo dun. ro leic Gorthig^/7/! in dun do Ambróis 7 rige iarthair Inse Bretan uile 7 tanic cona druidib co túascert Inse Bvetan .i. cosin ferand dianid

2isainm Gunnis 7 rochumtaig dun and .i. Caer Gorthi- gernd.

De chathaigecht Gorthemir.

Iar tain tra atraracht Gorthemir coscrach mac Gorte- gern cona brathair i n-agid Égist 7 Orsa 7 rochathaigsetar

220 Bretain maroen ris co hajrmas- Coro innarbsat Saxono co hlnis Teneth. 7 ro gabsat Bretain forro fo thri in n-insi co toracht cobair chucu asin Germain. 7 rocha- thaigsetar fri Bretnu each la tan ba leo. Tan aile ba forro 7 dorat Gorthemir cethri4 catha doib .i. cath for brú

225 Derguint. 7 cath for bru Rethere Gabáil 7 is and dorochair Ors 7 Catigernd mac Gortigern. 7 cath for bru Mara Icht 7 taifnitir Saxain coa longaib 7 cath for bruaig Epifort. Marb iin Gorthemir iar n-amsir bic 7 atrubairt fri Bretnu gair ria n-ec a adnacul for bru in

230 mara 7 ni ticfaitis Gaill etir hi n-insi iar tain. Ni dern-

Iwo letters erased. - sic MS, 3 w-stroke om. l asp. om. Facs,

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satar Bretain sin. Atraracht nert Saxan iarsin ar ba cara doib Gorthigern a los a mna

Dorala iíii íar n-éc Gorthemir 7 iar sid Egist 7 Gortigern doronsat Saxain mebuil for Bretnu .i. Bretain 7 Saxain do thinol i n-oenbaile ama/ bid do sid .i. Égist 235 7 Gorthigern fá chomlin cen armaib icechtar4 n-ai. acht tucsat Saxain scena etarru 7 a mmaelanu 7 ro marbsat na Bretnu | bátar and sin acht Gorthigernd a oenur 74a rochenglatar Gorthigern 7 dorat trian a feraind dar cend a mna .i. Alsaxum 7 Sutsaxum 7 Nitilsaxum. 240 Noforcanad im German inni Gorthigernd coro leced a mnai .i. a ingin. ro theig//1 7 ro folaig ria German co clérchib Cretan isind erund dianid ainm Gorthigernian 7 dochuaid German co clérchib Bre/at/ 7 ro boi .xl. lathi 7 aidc//e2 and. 7 dochuaid doridisi Gorthigerng*5 for 245 teched na clerech coa dun *lj dochoid German]3 inna diaid 7 robátar trí lá 7 trí aid/zchi1 i n-aine and sin 7 ro loisc tene do nim inní Gorthigern and sin cona uile muintir.

Atberat araile is do dercuiniud atbath for fainiul a Hue i Hue. Atberat áano araile is talam rosluic ind adaig250 ro losced a dún.

Ro batar im tri meic oca .i. Gorthigernd is eside rochathaig fri Saxanu. Catigern Pascent. is doside dorat Ambróis rí Brcían Boguelt 7 Gorthigerniam5 iar n-éc a athar Faustus noem .i. mac a ingine 7 German 255 ro mbaist 7 ro n-ail 7 ro forcan. 7 techtaid cathraig for bru Srotha Réin. Newnus asbert so.

Fermáel fil innosa for ferund Gorthigern meic Teudu- bri meic Pascent meic Guodicattv- meic Morut meic Eldat meic Eldoc meic Paul meic Meprit meic Briacat meiam Pascent meic Gorthigern meic Guitail meic Guittolin meic Glou.

Bonus 7 Paulus 7 Mauron tri meic Glou. is eside

1 mark of asp. over media due doubtless to retracer. - mark of asp. over d in MS. 3-3 in ras. with 7 do in marg. [H] 4 sic, for ic c. 3 Gorthigerniain Facs. u sic.

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dorone Caer Gleu1 .i. Glusester for bru Sabrinne.

265 Dochuaid German día thir.

Patraic tra ind inbaid sin i ndaíre i nHerind oc Miliuc. isind amsir sin ro foided Pledias dochum nErend do preempt doib. dochoid Palraic d'oglaim fades, coro leg in canoin la German. Roinnarbad Pledias a Hérind

270 7 tánic corofogain do Dia i Fordun isin Mairne.

Tanic Patraic dochum nErend iar foglaim 7 ro baist firu Herend.

O Adam co bathis fer nErend .u. ceo xxx. ferta tra Patraic do innisin dúibsi a fíru Hérend is usee do loch

275 insin. I

4b Rogab tra nert Saxan for Bretnu iar n-ec Gorthi- gern 7 rogab Octa mac Egist rige forru. Araide no cathaiget6 Artúr 7 Bretain riu co calma 7 dorat dá cath dec doib .i. in cetchath i nlnbiur Gléir. In tanaise 7 in

280 tres 7 in cethramad 7 in coiced for bru Dubglassi in sesed for bru Basa. In uii. i Caill Calidoin .i. Cait Coit Cledeb. In uiii. in Les Guinneain. Is and sin roimmar- chuir Artúr deilb Maire fora gúalaind 7 ro teichsetar na págáin. ix. i Cathraig ind Leomain. x. in Robroit.

285 xii. is and\s/i/e ro marb lam Artuir .xl. ar ocht cétaib i n-oenló 7 ba les coscor intib uile.

No chuinchitis im na Saxain 6 Germain fortacta doib 7 rigi forro co dia3 is eside cétrí ro gab úadib ifós in Bene roic4 .i. fri Umbra atúaid. Ida mac Euba. Eanfleth

29oingen Eduni toisech riam robaisted do Saxanaib i nlnis Bretan.5

1 o suprascr. - d suprascr. 3 sic SIS. for Ida. 4 sic, for Beornicia.

3 remainder of column left blank. 6 sic.

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LOC dond remoculsa chetus Druimm Ceta ar is ann 5a doronad in mórdáil Dromma Ceta. In alio locó im doronad corp ind immuin o sein immach ut post apparet. I n-amsirÁedae meic Anmerech dorigned. Ferso Dalian 295 Forgaill do Masraigib Maige Slecht.a Tucait. ar rocht- ain ríchid dó féin 7 aliís per se. Tri tucaite uero ara tanic Colum Cille a hAlbain i nHérifz/Jd1 in tan sin .i. do íuaslucud Scannláin móir meic Cind Fáelad rig Osraire fnisi3 ndeochaid i rráthaiges. 7 do astud inna filed i 300 nHérind ar ro bas inci;marba4 ara tromdacht. ar no bid .xxx. i cléir cac olloman 7 a xu. i cléir each anraid 7 do sidugud eter firu Hérenn 7 Alban im Dal Riata. 7 is^ atberat nocon-acca Colum Cille Eriwn in tan sin ar no bid bréit dara suilib 7 \sed fott-ra sein ar ro gell remi 305 sein ic dul taris na fegbad Erind o sein immach. d/crns.

Fil suil hglais

fégbas Eri?m dara hais.

noco n-acébá íarmothá

firu Érend nách a mmna. 310

Co tudchaid iaram Colum Cille isin n-airecht ocus co n-érracht sochaide remi do fáelti fris.b

Mad iar senchas ele iííi ni erracht nech remi acht Dowmnall m^c in rig ar atrubairt in rí coná \\e\rsed nech remi ar rofitir aní immo tánic 7 nirba maith leis a3i&

» gl. .i. i mBreíni Cownacht [M]

b Quatrain written along the upper marg. over first line of each column [M] : Cetracha sacart a lin. | fichi epscop úasal brig. | resin salmchetal cen acht I cóeca deochain tricha mace.

1 n-stroke om. *siC,forOsx?C\g<z. 3 sic. 4 sic, for ica n-.

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thichtain ar nírbo áil leis astud na filed t tuaslucud

Scannláin. Conid and sein ro bennach Colum Ciile inni

Domnall ar robo airmeta connici sein. Gorbu olc lasin

rigain a bennachad ar robo lesm^c di é goro fergaig in

32oclérech fria co n-érbairtsi frísin clérech romór in chor-

raigecht fora tai. is cet duitsiu ar in clérech bíth for

corraigecht ]fora tai. is cet duitsiu ar in clérech bíth for

corraigecht.1 Conid and sein ro soadsi i cuirr co ragaib a

5bhinailt for athisiugud in chlérig. corosaidside | hi cuirr

325 ele. co filet na dá chuirr sin o sein ille i nDruim Cheta

ut alii dicunt.

Táncatar íarsein na íilid isin n-airecht 7 dúan molta léo dó 7 aidbsia ainm in chiuil sin 7 ba céol derscaig- thech hé ut Colmán mac Lénéne dixit

330 bLuin o cheolaib uingi o dirnaib0

crotha ban náethech óc crothaib rígna. rig ic Domnall dordd ic aidbsi adande oc cainnill colcf oc mo choilcse 7 i n-óenecht dognítís in ceól sin. Co tánic míad 335menmandon chlereoch corbo lán in t-aér húasa chind ó demnaib coro failsiged do Baithin sein 7 coro chairigs/i/e in clérech 7 co tuc in clérech far sein a chend fo choim 7 co nderna athrige 7 co túargaib iarsein a chend asa choim 7 co róemid ceo mór dia chind 7 coro scailit as na 34odemna riasin céo sin. Da cét dec da«<? lin na filed ut dixit q?ndam.

Fecht do Mael Choba na cliar. ic hlbur Chind Tráchta thíar. Da cét dec filed fosfuair 345 resin n-ibar aníarthúaid.

a .i. corus cronain [M] b .i. deróli na luin i farrad2 na nela [M] c [in

marg.~\ .i. dirna ainm tomais moir t oc dirnaib [M] d .i. deroil each céol i farrad

aidbse [M] e .i. deróil oenchainnell bee lii farrad cainle more [M] f .i.

claideb [M]

1-1 sic, dittography. "• farad Facs.

5b2I-6a3] [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] 13,

Coi/^med teóra mblíadan mbind. dorat dóib Máel Coba in cing. méraid co lá brátha báin. do chenéol delbda Demáin.

Corofost Colum Cille iarsein na filedu 7 co n-erbairt 350 fri //Aed.

Cormac cain buicha neoitb

nua molta crina0 seoit.

is eci ro legus roth1 cráedd

cein maire molthiar. mairg áerthiar Áed 355.

Cain in súg asa saeraigthib sugthiar mairg in íath ecnairc airthiar.

Arad clothf cain in réim riadait8' bih dofúarthet1 maini molthaidi.

Dorónad coindmed na filed iarsein fo Érind 7 ro 36» digbait iarsein a clíara .i. xxiiii. i cléir ind olloman 7 xii. i cleir ind ánraid. is iarsin bai Colum Qille icuin- chid2 Scandlain for Aed 7 ni tardad dó. Co n-erbairt- sium da.no fri Aed is e nongébad a assa imme imm iarmergi cebé bale no bethj 7 ro comallad amlaid. 365 Colmán mac Comgelláin im is é rue in mbreith eter hru Erend 7 Alban 7 do DálRíata áoside. 7 is ris dorigni Colum Qille \ in mbáide in tan ropo lenam bee in 6a. Colmán ut dixit

A chub/« con 370

a anim glan. aso póic duit dale póic dam

a .i. ro bris .i. maith ro bris fein in cáininne [M] b .i. gainne [M] c .i. tiagait as [H] d .i. filidecht [M] e .i. mad genair [M] f .i. ut dicitur i nlmacallaim in da Túarad .i. altram cloth .i. foglaim ecse. cluith do thur.i. intí icambi aenech do thúr [M] s .i. radit .i. [M] [marg.'] h .i. ut dicitux daw ongai^- etitra .i. etar a;-d .i. dam allaid .tad (?) t riagdai .i. dieithard [Jil] ' .i. marit [H] J \marg^\

bithcé .i. bet(ha)3 centarach4 [M]

rath Facs. - sic, for ic cuindchid. 3 sic Facs., now Meg. * centaradi Facs.

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7 asbert Culum Cil/e is é dogénad síthugud eter firu

375Érend 7 Alban. 7 is i breth rue// a fecht 7 a slóged la firu Erend do grés ar islóged1 la fonnaib do gres. a cain 7 a cobach la firu Alban. 1 a mmuircoblach nammá la firu Alban ó sein immach im la firu Herend. Tanic iaram Dalian ardollom Wérend in tan sin do acallaim

38oCholum4 Chille. Conid and rogab in remfocul dó. 7 ni reléic Colum Cille dó a dénam secha sein co ndernad i n-amsir a éistecta ar asbert fri marb bas chubaid 7 is dochendaib2 ro thriall Dalian a dúain do dénam. Do- rairngert trá Colum Cille do Dalian i//nmassa 7 torthe

385 in talman ar in molad sa 7 ni ragaib acht nem dó féin 7 do cech óen no ngebad ca<:// dia 7 dofucébad etéT chéill 7 iogur ut quidarn dixit

Amra Coluim ca<r// dia cepé nod geba co follan.a

390 rosia in findlaith fia

ro ir Dia do Dalian. Tri comartha im dorat Colum Cille do in tan dogénad .i. marcach eich alaid no innisfed dó étsecht Coluim Chille 7 in cetna foccul no ráidfed in marcach commad

395 hé tosach in molta 7 a suile do lécud dó céin no beth ica dénam. Ic Ath Féne d&no i mMide doronad in molad sa ut Mael Suthain dixit. Adfét im Ferdomnach comarba Colu/?;/ Chille is far Slige Assail ro canad ótha Dun na nAirbed cosin crois ic Tig//3 Lommán

400 Anamainb eté-r da nin inso .i. nin i tossuch in moltai 7 nin ina deriud .i. ni discéoil 7 nim uain. 1 is gobul di .i. recne0 dechubaid .i. dá son t a tri do tinnscetul o áenfid beos .i. diaid i ndiaid 7 son o fid is écsamail ina diad .side.

a .i. eter ceill 7 logur [M] b .i. ansomain .i. somain án .i. airdairc. 7

isind immund tis atá ind anamain [M] c .i. ré cantana dechubaid im fil isind

remfocul .i. neit 7 méit. [M]

1 sic, for is slóged. 2 chendnaib MS. with punctum delens over n. 3 mark of

asp. later. 4 sic.

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Dia dia. 7 rt. Is airi emnas in cétfocwl arabela 1 ar405 lainni in molta ut est áeus dév/s mens. 7 rt. Is é im a ainm sein lasin Góedel atherruch i riguth rignáth | ar6b bíti tri quale cosmaile labartha ic filedaib na Goedeilge .i. a atherruch i riguth riglát 7 a insimqd. 7 a diabul 7 is í so aichne cech ai dib. Is é in t-aitherruch q«ide?« 410 emnad óenfoc/^'l i n-oeniniud1 isind runn 7 cen lenamain dé o sein immach. Is é im a insemod a innisein o mud inund .i. in t-óenfoc«l do rád co mm^;/ic isind rund co n-etartaidecht focz^l ele etarru. ut est hoc .i.

Ric in sithbea sitlas mag 415

ric in dam trí cóecait glond.

ric in gillab gusmar gand foracaib Cú Dínisc donn.

Is e im a diabul .i. a filliud .i. do emnad ut est hoc .i.

Agur águr iar céin chain 420

bith i péin phein ní sith sith. amfl/ each each co bráth bráth

in cech thráth tráth cid scíd/z2 scíth.

Da email dib so isind remfocwl so. Aterruch i íiguth ngnáth 7 a innsimod. A insemod im namma425 fogabar i curp ind immuin.

DlA DIA DORROGUSd ria tías inna gnúis

.i. atagur Dia Í gudim dia ríasiu thías ina gnúis Í in tan 1

ind inbaid tias.

CULUe TRÍA NEIT.f 430

Fortched Í formolad fil hie 7 conna bitis gnee fortcheda

a .i. in dúan [M] b .i. CarpH mac Con Dinisc [M] c episiuxis nomen

huius speciei secundum Donatum .i. geminatio eiusdem uerbi \n eodem uersu sine aliqz^a dilatione ut me me3 assum qui rt3 [M] d .i. is ró .i. is mór atagur Dia.

i dorró .i. ro thogus rúamnad and. [M] e .i. cul .i. carpat [M] f .i. cath [M]

1 sic. 2 sic d, due no doubt to retracer. 3 faintly traceable.

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foi sin dichned 7 dochned 7 cennacros ut qz/idam dtcunt. bid da7io néit .i. guin ut d/citur

ro bé do lecht1 i farthea 435 iar do néitb séol siraichthe.c

ructhar i cappd i ndiaid phille do raccf a scáils día coemchill .1. amíz/ téit carpath serda tré chath corop amlaid dech m'animsea tria chath nemna dochum nime. Culu 440 .i. fortched1 sund incond2 ilid. ar is cul in foc«l gnáthach acht ro thuill in fili .u. sund do línad na filidechta. 1 do dúaichnigud3 na foc?/l tria digbail 7 tria tórmach 7 tria inchumscugud do dénam intib 7 atát trí gnee fair .i. dichned4j 7 dochned 7 cennachros. Is é in dichnedk a 445 chend do gait dond cu\" 7 cen ni ele ina inad ut dixit

poeta.

Dál ro dálus mór in baes isind arus huas Druim5 7a6 a mmo chomdiu a ri .ru. rá.1

45o bui bium ba bés ni thias.

rú rá. is e in desmerecht and sein. ar is run ran rodlecht. ise uero in dochned." da cend fair .i. a chenn féin 7 cend ele. 7 commad é a diles in litter dédenach ind ocut\ do emnad ama/ dognethea benn dondi as ben ut ázeitur 455 La mac' fir néit0 fadb corcrap

téit dáig dedemin.i ni tercda. forruim1 tend.8 do chrund ochtgac gnath cenn í c//rub Chon Echtga.

» .i. i mmochai [M] b .i. iar do guin [M] e 1 sirarde [M] d .i. i carr [M] « .i. eicli [M] f .i. do ben [M] e .i. a fir [M] h í claideb [M] s .i. deichned speciality [M] J t declined [M] k .i. dicennad [M] ' .i. run .i. rathmar

sa [M] m i bi [M] » i in declined [M] ° .i. guin [^l] p \marg.~] ut

dicitur Á. ( ) .i. ( )orb'v )a ligaib [M]8 <J i dinéim [M] r .i. ro gon ; [infra

lin.} t .i.8 ro furmi [M] 5 .i. laech [M] l .i. do crund gai i mbít ocht láma [MJ

1 1 corr. in ras. from b. 2 sic. 3 supply a luirg. ar is inunn fortched 7

fordorchad. ar is ed bis hi fortched temligud 7 duaichnigud, Rawl. 4 ch corr.

from g. 5 supply Lias. 6 This leaf, subsequently bisected, is now repieced^

1 MS. more like lain. 8 om. Facs.

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Commad hi rét no béth in desmerecht hie .i. a chend féin for ind ir út 7 cenn neich ele ina láim acht chena is 460 i n-erlabra fégtair inna haisti 7 ni hi rét. Commad hé in desmeirecht hie ni t^rcda ar ro tuilled da forsin foc/d cert, acht chena increchthar sein ar ni deichned iar ndílsi tormach sillaibi acht is formolad filed. 7 is é so a deismerecht side. 465

Céim o lochaib do línnói co glothaib clu nad gandón.a techt sech eochu i cind chrice maith bethu i mbite annón

Cade di in déchnedb isind rund atrubrummar. La 470 mac1 fir 7rl.c ni handsa tenn do dénam dondni as ten .i. tene ardaig goro recrad dochenn 7 declined iar ndilsi sein. Is amlaid só im dermerechtaigtir3 na hernaili sea in aliis libris .i. dichned anv;/ atá dochusin .i. tellad a chend dé .i. net ar is docuisnet ro bui de prius. Is e im 475 in deichned ut est maelan .i. án in cend ele. is é in chen- nachros4 ut est senchas ar is fenchas ro bui de prius is e so increchad na ndesmerecht sea .i. Jii dichned iar ndilsi dig-bail silWbi 7 ni dichned iar nd5 indara de cip ed arile. Araill and da.no is iat na focail gnátha6480 indiu dochusin 7 maelán 7 senchas iar n-arsathaib di ata deismerechta sút ar roptar iat na focail gnáthcha acuside. docuisinet7 7 mael 7 fencas. Is e im in cen- nachros indiu fenchas do denam dond ocul as senchas ar is e in gnathach. indiu senchas. ut áicitur 485

a on hk exemitw/- [M] b i in dochned [M] « \marg.~\ ( ) rethaib .i. fer

( )s.- ferr [M]

1 MS. more like lain 2 membrane cut away at shajt ofs;e Facs. 3 sic, for

desm . . * chend nachros MS., with punctum delens over d. 5 Here the scribe

has skipped a line, supply dsi tormach sillaibe acht formolad filed, Rawl. 6 sic.

1 MS. rather . . met, due to retracing.

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Fégsait filid Fail i fos fenchas co féig la Fergos 7b mad far mal ca^ maige | immach

dorróische doíne Dubthach.

490 Fenachas is é in desmerecht ann sein .f. ar .s. and is cumma dognith^r i tosuch 7 i nderiud focail in dichned 7 in cennachros i nderiud im iocail namma as gnáth dóchned do dénam. Ni aiccem da.no ic filedaib na gaedeilge ainm sain for digbail littri 7 sillabi. am«/

495atchiam for tormach littri 7 silWbi .i. dóchned tormach littri 7 formolad tormach silWbi.

DlA NIME NIM REILGE I LLURGa I N-EIGTH1AR AR MUICH DIA MEIT.

.i. ar rélad fírinni a.tbeir Día nime 1 día fis connach Dia 500 as idal. Nim reilge i llurg na ndemnab ocá ndentar égem ar met a mmuiche.

DÍA MAR MO ANACCOL DE MÚR THEINDTIDE DÍUDERC NDÉR

.i. mór Dia domm anaccul ar immed in tened bale i 505 teilgití?r déra co cían ico déicsin .i. <\uia fit mur immed

ut dicitux

múr immed tall isind recht coph búaid is briathar lánchert. Dú bale dú dúthaig lat 510 cul comet is cul carpat

diuderc da.no nomen compossitum 6 latin 7 scotic. diu .i. incían derc .i. súil ut diy.it Gránni ingen Cormaic fri Find.

Fil dune 515 rismad bude 4em diuderc.1

ara tribrindc in bith uled a meicc Maire cid diúbert.

a .i. declined iwles [M] h i in deniain dianid ainm enégthíar ar méit a niuche

[M] « t dia tibrind [M] d } mbude t hule hule [M]

7b27-8a8] [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] 19

DlA FIRENa FÍROCUS CLUINES MO DONUAILL DO NIMÍATH NÉL

.i. Dia Fíróen X Día na fírén. fírocus .i. quia est dé?ws520 ubique 7 prope omnibus inuocantibus eum. Mo do- núaill .i. mo do núaill .i. núall mo chuirp1 7 m'anma iar nelaib co íath nime. 1 núall fetarlaice 7 nufinad.2 1 mo do- nuaill .i. mo dó nuall .i. mo núali dó .i. do Dia. Bid da;/<? iath mind 7 iath ferand ut dicitur 525

¥6 ainm do maith is do miad. Fi ainm 3d'ulc 7 d'anriad." án fir is ni forus fand iath mind 7 iath ferand.3

De mestitia 07/2wium rerum m morte Columbae t de53o exitu Columbae4

Ni DISCÉOIL0 DUAE NEILL

.i. ni cen sc( )5 1 ni dis in seel °t ni dis in scél6 d'uib Néill. Colum Cille do éc. 1 duae Néill .i. doínui7 Néill. t ni disceoi/ Á. ní dáthe scéoil .i. niba seel do duid .i. 535 clothaigfit/«y.d I

Ni UCHTAT ÓENMAIGE MÓR MAIRGe MOR DEILM NDIO- 8a LAING

.i. ni do oenmaig as uch i as íachtad sed tótís ca^zpis Is mairg mór estecht Coluim Chiile deilm .i. is mor in 540 •crith 7 in cwwsugud8 tánic isin nErindla hestecht Coluim Chiile .i. quia fit deilm .i. torand t throst ut áiciíuv Atá ben is tir

ni apar a hai[w]m.9 maidid esi a deilm 545

ama/ chloich a tailm.

» .i. a oenur as firen. t firén hé cen peccad [M] b t 7 d'etiiad [M] » amrat .i. ánum fil and óndí as ámus éc atá. amrath di .i. ecrath ar is e Colum Cille 10 rath anduas. sMter eendaire rath [H on I. 41, left blank by A. ,] J icluinfither [M]10 <■ .i. miserg [M]

1 only a trace o/p left, remainder cut away. - sic, (a wrong expansion o/fiad)

with adnaisi added over nad by H. 3~3 in ras. and retraced ; first half of line jg

erased. 4 final e(ae) cut away. 5 él cut away. 6"6 sic, dittogr. \ sic

MS. & LH., read domui. 8 sic, for cumscugud. 9 ti-stroke om. 10 ..fit" Facs.

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20 [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] [8a9-10

RlS RÉ ASNEID COLUM CEN BEITH CEN CHILL.

Ris nád fir. 6 ricfa co tech a rig. 550 cóich bas lugu innia sin.

inná Finnía find serchaid.

.i. is diolaing dun in scél isind ré i n-aisnéttr dún Cdlum Cii/e do éstecht cen bith .i. cend1 a beith i mbith i i mbethaid cen chill .i. cen a beith i cill. ris. .i. seel ut

.555 £5/ i nlmmacallaim in da Thúarad .i. áil rig risi rédi. f i mBrethaib Nemed ut dicitur. Ní díl dáimi risi .i. ni fil airfitiud dáimi do seelaib oca. i combad ed bad choir and. cen díl dámi risi .i. cen díl óegidechta in scelaigi ar bid risi .i. scelaigi ut óixii Corp/v m^c Etaine isind

560 air dorigni do Bres m^c Eladan.

Cen cholta arb craib cernine0 cen gertd ferbbac fora n-assa athirnif cen adbag fir fo druba disorchih cen díl dámi resi1 rob sen Brisse.

565 7 is í sein cétáer dorónad i nÉrinn.

COI INDIA. DUÍ DO

.i. coi .i. q?iomodo india innisfes .i. cia cruth innisfes dui de. t coi .i. conar .i. cia conair innisfes dui dé. i robo dui cech dune ina condelgsom co India.

570 SCEO NERA

.i. sceo 7 céo 7 neo trí comaccomail góedelge .i. cid Nera mac Moraind I Nera m^c Findchuill a sidib ni chóemsad a asnéis t robo dui side i n-athfegad Chohiim Chide. 575 In FAITH DÉ DÉ DE SION SUDIOTH IS NU NAD MAIR

.i. is nu atbath in faith Dé ro suidestar for deis in

a .i. cen hiad [M] b i for [MJ c .i. clár [M] d .i. cen loim t cen geilt

[Mj « .i. bó [M] f .i. lóeg [M] s .i. cen tech [M] h .i. adaig [M],

.i. scelaigi [M]

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Sioin nemdai. i da.no in faith Dé noaisneded in sudigud bias i n-iatha Sion. i in faith ro sudestar for deis Dé in Sion.

Nl MARTHAR LEND 580

.i. ni marthar ocund t ni fil mórath ocund hifechtsa i ni fil nech diar mórad ocund.

NÍ LES ANMA AR SUI ARDON CONDIATH |

.i. ni fil ocund nech lessaiges t soillsiges ar n-anmain 8b ifechtsa ar atrullaí úain i n-iath cain ar sui. t condio .i.585 sallim .i. inti nosailled o forcetul bréntaid ar cinad 7 ar targabal. i ni lesaigend ar n-anmain ar sui ar ro foilged erond .i. cond( )l

CoNROETOT BIU BATH

.i. inti nochometed. t nocométad2 ar mbiu atbath3 1 590 inti nochometed ar mbiu co cain atbath

Ar don bath bo ar n-aircend adilg( )ih

.i. atbath airund inti omba irchend ar n-áilgius dligthech ar dobered dun cech ni ba ail dún co gligthech5 i inti bá airchend fri airchesecht ar n-adlaige atbath. 595

Ar don bath bá fíadat foídiam

.i. atbath erund inti nod faidmis co ar Fiadat .i. co ar nDia maith .i.-ar teged a spirit for nem cec dardain

ArA5 NIN FISSID FRISBERED ÓMNU HÚAIN

.i. ar ni bered inti dobered fis síth dún i fis áith cona600 bid imecla ocund. f in fisid téged úain i n-ia( )° Ar ntn tathrith doslunend focul fír .i. ni aithred//end7 cocund inti no rethed úain 7 no sluined fir focuil t ni thic diar tathreos .i. díar sésugud Ar nin forcetlaid forcanad túatha toí 600

.i. ar ni mair in forcetlaid non forcanad na tiiatha co mbitis inna tost t no forcanad tuatha im denam toi. t in

» .i. hi tir [HJ '■ .i. dliged [M]

' margin cut away ; probably conditus est, Stokes. 2 cométed Facs.

1 aetbath MS. with e expwicted. x margin cut away, read adilgen. 5 sic.

'final th, and part of a cut away. '• sic MS., d (for t) no doubt due to retracing.

22 [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] [8b31-9a9

forcetlaid no forcanad na tuatha batar im Thai .i. ainma srotha i nAlbain.

010 HUILE BITH BA HAE HE

.i. robo lesseom in t-ule bith i dano is intirecht fégthair and .i. he .i. tniag .i. is truag atat atrebthaide in betha robo lesseom. Ms crot cen chéis iatside 7 is cell cen abaid1

615 IS CRUIT CEN CEISb IS CELL CEN ABAID

.i. céis ainm do chruit// bic bis i comaitecht chruite more hi comsinm. i ainm don delgain bic fostas in téit hi mmude na crote. i dona coblaigib. i ainm don trom- thet. t isi in cheis isin chruit ani chongbas in lethrind

9acona tétaib inti. ut dixit poeta Ros mac Find | c cecinit.

621 1 Ferchertne file.

Ni celtd ceis ceol de criiit Crabtenee coselastar2f for sluagu suanbasB

consert coibnius eter sceo Main Moriaet11 macdacht Morca1 625 ba mo lé3 cech log LabreicU

ba binniu cec céol in chrot arpete Laibraidk Loingsech Lore ciarba docht1 for rune in ri 630 nirochelt ceis Craiptini.

Prim 7« capitulus huic usque canitur

:> in marg. t sig'ge ( ) [M], remainder cut off b .i. ceis coi astuda. i coi a iisin ciúil [M] c [marg. sup.] Is carad4 lega íii léis/ is carad4 smera ri smúais./ is amrim ri c;v/it cen chéis/ sinni d'éis ar n-argain úais. [H] d .i. niro clieil Ros mac Find

I Ferchertne fill [M] e .i. cruittire [M] ' .i. doiat [M] e .;. bas cotolta5 [M]

II .i. proprium [in marg.'] .i. Mori a th in gen Scoriath ingen rig Fer Morca isi 10 charastar Labraid. [M] ' .i. proprium gentis [M] i A. labrad do Loingsiuch ar ba balb [M] k .i. Labraid l.omgsech mac AWelln meic hoegairi meic Ugaini ^lóir [M] ' .i. ciarbo balb remi sin [M]

1-1 sic, out of place. 2 sic, for conselastar. :i letter erased after e.

4 sic, for scarad, 5 codolta Facs.

9a10-36] [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] 23

De ascensione eius in caelum.

ATTRUIC ROARD TRÁTH DE COLUM CUITECHTA

.i. atraracht co roard Culum in tan tánic cuitechta Dé ara chend .i. angil Dé. 635

FlNNETHAL FRESTAL.

.i. is firm t is taitnemach in fethal día táncatar frest/^al i is finn in sídlaith tánic i {vestal Choluim Cilk .i. Axal aingel cum ceteris angelis.

FlGLIS FUT BAÍ 640

,i. dorigni figill in fot ro bai uul uita .i. dá cét dec slechtan leis cack lai acht i sollomnaib tantum comtar léri a asnai triana bla lin ut dixit poeta

Glé no laiged isin ngeima

ina ligu bá mór sáeth. 645

slicht a asna triana étach

bá léir dána séted gáeth.

Baí sáegul SNEID.b

robo garit a saegul. .i. uii. blW>/a lxx. ut dixit in

file. 650

Teora bl'iadtia. boí cen lés Colum ina dubreclés. luid co hainglib asa chacht iar .ui. bliadfiaió Axx.

BaÍ SÉIM SÁTH 655

.i. ba becc a saith .i. ba bec domeled t ba bee a hasad

Baí sab súithe cec dindc

.i. roba sab daingen no soad cech niummus t robo suiabb t sabb cech denna .i. cecha airechta cosa ricced Cotum Cille i ba soabb i suthemlacht cech ber\a.i co660 clethi. t robo nertmar isin tuithe co riacht co clethi.

a .i. isin n«aiií?/« [M] b .i. súail 1 bec } diriuch2 [M] c i uas. i in .i. ba suithe in each dindsenchas [M]

1 sic. 2 asp. om. Facs.

24 [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] [9a36-9b19

Bm DIND OC LIBUR LEIGDOCTa

.i. robo bind forcetlada leigis Colum Cille.

LAISSAISb TÍR TÚAITH

665 .i. ro soillsig i ro lesaig tiri 7 tuatha i ro las de in tir thuaid. i ro lasastar isin tir thuaid.c I ro lesaig in tir luaitk t ropo lais é.

Leis tuath occidens

.i. lessaiges t soillsigis. t robo leis tuath occidentis | 9b .i. Eriu 7 Inis Bó Finne forsind arge .i. cutrwwa ro 67i holsig t ro lesail1 aquilonem 7 occidentem.

COTROLAS ORIENS

.i. cutrummad roba leis oriens 7 occidens.

Oc CLERIB6 CRIDOCHTAIB

675 .i. oc cleirchib na chridib fortchi. i ona cleirchib cosna cridib forcdib ro foglaim t da;/6> ropo docht a chride im clercecht fri each.

Fó DÍBAD

.i. maith a epiltiu. quia fit dibad 7 bath 7 ba 7 teme 680 ic slui[?^]d2 epilten.

DÉ AINGIL I RE ASSIDROCHAIB

.i. aingel Dé nime dodeochatar ara chend in tan conuargaib.

fDe regione ad quam peruenit Qolum Cille 7 de pluri- 685 bus gradibus eius. secundus capitulus hue usque iucipit tertius.

RÁNIC AXALU LA ARBRIU ARCHANGLIU

.i. ranicsom co du i tá Axal aingel i axalu .i. auxi-

lium i axalu .i. na imacalam .i. ranicseom tir i ndéntar

69oimmaccallaim -i. molad na trinote. quia dicunt hiruphin

a .i. no forcanad libru ind rechta co clethe quia fuit doctor in libris legis [M] b Í loss i laiss c .i. tuascert nErend [M] d i ro las cid isind airthiur [M]

e 1 o clíaraib [M] ' titul [A]

sic, for lesaig. 2 w-stroke om.

9b19-10au] [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] 25

7 sa.ra.phin sanctus sanctus sanctus áominus deus sabaoth. t axalu .i. uca 7 sola .i. comsmdigud 6 latin 7 o goedilg .i. ranicseom a oentoga .i. nem. i Axal nomen ind aingil noaccallad Colum Cille 7 quod est uerius ut ueniebat Uictor ad Patricium la airbriu .i. la immed. t la sluag. 695

RÁNIC ÍATH NAD ADAIG ACCESTAR

.i. ranic in ferand nád aicither adaig et[iV]L sed lux.

RANIC TÍR DO MOISE MUNEMAR

.i. ranic in tir i toimnemni Moisi do bith ar secnaid each and is coir Moise do bith and ara ebas. 7oo

Ranic maige mós nad genetar ciuil

.i. inid bes nemgenemain ceól sed sunt semper in se

Nad estet ecnaide

.i. nad eplet ecnaide. quia mali peribunt in futuro 7 non boni. i nad estet ecnaide fri araile quia omnes705 periti sunt in caelo. t ni etat ecnaide a aisneis. i ni etsend nech fri écnach i ni chluinet ecnaide ni a[;/]d! quia ciues celestes officio aurium corporalium non indigent. sed cogitation es suas introspiciunt alterutrum.

ASRALA RI SACART SAETHU 710

.i. ro la as ri na sacart a sáethu .i. i n-amsir a etsecta ut áicitur tristis est anima 7 rt. |

Hue usque tertius 7 i// hoc quarto capitulo de mart/? io 10a eiws co;//mewmorat//r.

ROCEHAES2 GAIR. CO MBUICH3 715

.i. rochesastar isin garitré ro bui i fos coro brisestar cath for demon 7 domon.

Baí húath fia demal

.i. roboiseom corbo huath he fri demon t fri demal. fri dee mali. t fri Demal .i. fri ri na lidemna4 .i. dé ondi 720 as demon mál .i. ri i demal nomen propriuw demonis no bith ic aimsigud Coluim Cille do ores.

1 contraction stroke om. "• sic, for ro dies. 3 co mbuich in minus-

cule. 4 n add. above line.

26 [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] [10ai2-10b3

DlAMBO GOISTE CELEBRAD

.i. diambo choi astuda celebrad Coluim Chille I goiste

725 airi fern .i. airet rochluned in demon guth Co/uim Chille

icelebrad1 ni lamad cor de co tairced in celebrad 7 co

n-iarfaigtis scela dó iar sein. o Chohim Chille i robo goiste

gabala don demon ro bui isin mac legind i nArd Macha

.i. mace legind notheged co mmnai clérig and .i. in tan

730 dognithea celebrad 7 offrenn iss and no theged cuci.

coro arig Colum Cille fecht and in demon ic smétiud for

in mac legin2 coro thairmisc Colum Cille immón mac

légind. dul immach robo goiste gobala di de demon

celebrad Coluim Chille and sein fri ré mile colleithmile

735 ba follus guth Coluim Chille icelebrad1. ut dixit poeta.

Son a gotha Coluim Cille

mor a binne uas each cléir co cend cúic cét dec ceimmend

aidble remmend ed ba réil.3

740 Asa cheird cumachtaig

.i. a cumachta a chleirchecta dognidsom sein.

Conroíter recht robust

.i. cain roitir f rochomét in recht sonairt t ro chomet recht .i. rectitudinem. robust .i. robusti .i. sonairt hé i 745 comet dirgetad

ROFES RÚAIM ROFÉS SEIS

.i. rofes roim a hadnaicthe i rofes ic Róim a ecnasom 7 a chrabud. sess .i. sofis .i. fis ecnai 7 fáitsine hi //nun4 da.no atberat araile eisseirge Choluim Chille do bith ut 750 dixit poeta. | 10b Hi co n-ilur a mmartra

diamba Cholum coemdalta dolluid essi fo dered conid Dun a sennemed

1 sic, for ic c. . " sic. 3 edbai- éil MS. * sic, fur nDún.

10b4"35] [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] 27

Ro SUITHE DÓ DÁMAa DEACTA 755

.i. rosuidiged do aiste na deachta ar teged each dardain ad Dominion .i. rodamad dó suithe na deachta ó mac Dé ró etarstar1 sein. t robo i ndeacht damtha meic Dé

DeRB2 DAGb I MBAC

.i. is demin is maith intéc//3 dochuaid i i mbai .i. 760 maith i mbai siu

Ba eola axal n-aingel

.i. ba eolach i n-immaccallmaib aingel t ba eolach i n-immaccallaim d4arigil danid ainm Axal

ARBERT BASSIL BRATHU 7C5

.i. in brath diummusa dochúaid ind i mmordáil Dromma Cetta conid airi sein tuc Baithin testemain a Basil do tróethad in diumais t noairbired bretha brátha a Basil.

ARGAIR GNÍMU DE ADBSIB AIRBRIB AIDBLIB AIDBSIB. 770

.i. ro ergair imme a menmain do bith inna Dia in molad doratsat na sloig fair t ro ergart gnimu Dé de thaibsin na n-immed iidub duabsech 7 Ised argarg3 deseom sein in testemain a Basil 1 na bretha. aidbsi ainm in chiuil t in crónain dognitis ermór fer nÉrend in 775 tan sin cid ed doscarad immalle 7 is triasin ceol sin doronsat firErend do Cholum Chiiie i mmórdáil Dromma Ceta roás míad menman ind. 6Huc usque q?/art//5c

7De scientia ei/ts \u omin parte7 RaITH RITH RETHES 780

.i. ro raithestar i tarraid dó in rith ro rethestar. Dar cais'1 CAINDENAM

.i. donid caingnim dar cend a miscsen .i. quia fit cais .i. miscais.

» t dana i dámtha [?>targ.~\ t dana deachta .i. deerce " trocaire. [M] '• .i. maith ut iicitux dagdune [M] c t inima .i. eter a da á .i. a. a gene 7 a. a buis [INI]

d t dar cais .i. dar cend grada a namat .i. [M]

1 sic, for ro étastar. 2 letter erased after b. 3 sic. 4 sic, for ind.

5 sic, for argart. G'6 -written between the columns. '•-' in marg. [M]

28 [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] [10b36-lla=*

785 FaIG FERB FITHIRa

.i. noíúaged i no figed brethir ind forcetail in fétha- thair. t fithir .i. sir t amnas. bid da.7/0 ferb ic slaind tri rét .i. ferb br'mthar ut didtut mad iar ferbaib firamraib berlai bias bain, t is fas fénechas ic ferbaib Dé. Bid da;/<? 790 ferb bole ut dicitux turcbait ferba fora gruadaib iar llacilbrethaib | b.i. iar clóenbretaib. bid da.no ferb. ut dicitur théora ferba fira dosnacht .i. ros immaig Assal ar Mog Nuadat

GALS GLUASA GLÉ

795 .i. ba gas hé ic erslocud na gluas.3 f robo gaethsum ic gleod glefessa t gonais na glúasa co gle .i. eochair glé Qolum Cille do rédigud glúas t chest. Glinsius salmu

.i. roglinnig na salmu fo obil 7 astrisc i rofoglaind goo na salmu.

SLUINSIUS LÉIG LIBRU LIBUIR UT CAR CASEON

.i. ro sluinnestar na salmu ica tichtain iarna foglaim

7 is úas in sluinnsius foi sin. t sic rosluinestar libru leig

.i. ind rechta anW rocharastar libru Eoin Caseoin. t

so,-) nirbo mo leiss libuir ind rechta do thiactain c\uam libuir

Eoin Casseoin. t ro leg Eoin Cassioin libru legis

Catha gulae gaelais

.i. rogailastar catha in croís \ cúlai as maith and .i.

ro bris cath na trí cúl .i. cath Cúli Dremni for Connachtu.

81o 7 cath Culi Feda for Colman Mor mac Diarmata. 7 cath

Cnli Rathin for Ultu ic cosnam Rois Torothair eter

* .i. fétAathir* [H] [marg.] 1 ferb ( ) .i. ( ) [H]-

>' \_Marg. sup.']

JJia ecna dia dilgud dess innisid raid ritli íethes. Coicfa boi bia ba bind lib diad amiaib dia ainib Sloinnid a máre si/z maig ergnaid sui siacht slicht cethrair do chomaitlini a molta on rig Aed atnóe ule aisnid. Dia chinud do clannaib Neill innisid innisid1 buich brón bithréil. amrai inso in rig raid fó deóid dia degattach ni disceóil. ni disceoil .d. n. [M]

sic. dittogr, - almost wholly illegible ; om. Facs. s sic. * k am. Facs

lla25-llb15] [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] 29'

Colum.Cille 7 Comgall i gálais ro brisestar. ut d/xi/ poe/a

Mór do chataibgaelastar

for1 athair ralastar 815-

mac in mail a Main Masten ri fer Fail adagastar.

LlBRU SOLMAN SEXUS

f ro siach libru Solman. t sexus .i. fegius ut áicitur fenchas pro senchas. 820

SlNA SCEO IMRIMA RAITH.

imrima .i. donenna 7 ondi as imbér atá imrima raith .i. ro raidestar sein .i. doucad in tan ticfad sonend 7 donend.

RANNAIS RAIND CO FIGUIR ETER LIBRU LEIG 825

.i. ro rannastar raind co figuirdacht eter lebraib ind legind t ind rechta .i. nodeliged a stair 7 a sians 7 a moroil 7 a n-anogaig.

LÉGAIS RÚNE ROCHÚAID ETER SCOLAIB SCREPTRA

.i. ro leg rune in rosuthe co fitir na rune in tan robuÍ83o eter scolaib ic foglaim na screptra. i rosualt.i. | ainm do lib beist bis isind airci 7 is iat so a airde side .i. in tan sceas 7 a aged fri tir domma 7 Urea isin tir sin co cend .uii. mbliarfW i isin bliadain sin namma mad súas domma 7 mortlaid isind aeor sin. Mad sis domma 7 mortlaid for 835 mila in mara. no innised iarum runa ind anmannai sin do doinib co mbetis inna foimtin. rosualt da.no ann maile2 don beist sin.

SCEO ELLACHT IMMUAIM N-EISCI. IMM RITH

sceo .i. ecus ro ellged acceseom cohuaim3 retha esci 840> im rith grene .1. esci ria gran o prim co cuicid dec 7 iar grain o chúicid dec co prim.

Raith rith la grein ngescaig

.i ropo reid dó eolas retha escai la rith na grene

1 sic, for fora. J sic, for ainm n-aile. 3 sic, for co/«huaim.

30 [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] [lib15"30

845 taitnemche. is airi asberar gescach fri gré'm ar is uathi atá sollsi dona rennaib ailib.

SCEO REIN R1TH

.i. robo éolach i rrith rénis .i. maris i commad rian bad choir and ut diy.it Find hu Baiscne

850 Scél lém dúib

dordaid dam. snigid gaim ro faith sam.

gáeth ard huar 855 isel grian

gair a rrith

ruthacha rian.b

roruad rath0 ro clethd cruth. 860 ro gab gnath

giugrand guth.

ro gab uacht

ete.1 én aigre ré. 865 e.1 mo scle.2 scél lém duib

RlMFEITH RIND NIME NECH INCHOI CECH NDIRUAIS O CHOLLUM CHILLE CUALAMAR

.i. noairmebad retlanna nime inti no iwinisfed3 each ní roúcos rochualammar o Cholum Chille. t noinnisfed 870 Qolum Cille dia triallad rohúais do rennaib. hue usqtie quintal.

a..i. tondgarach4 [H] b .i. muir [H] c .i. raithnech [H]

d .i. ro cheil [H]

1 stop sic. 2 sic, with accent over c for scél. 3 sic, for no innisfed.

4 tAodgarach Facs.

llb30-12a16] [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] 31

De admiration 7 carita/^ eius hie sextus ckpitulus

COICH BOI COICH BÍA BEO BADIB AMRADAIR AR IATHAIB IRDOCHT IRTHUAITH

.i. coich roboí t cúich bias béo bad chomuasal fris 875 na^bad firfortchiu for ferannaib in tíri túaith. ar iatha/á1 irdochí .i. bá erdocht fria thuaithrá t thir anechtair in tan conucaib a chill hi tosuch .i. Eu. irthuaith .i. frim an- thuaith. t irdocht .i. ba erdocht hi tuaith .i. ba docht a chobaisseom fri nech i ba docht im chobais neich. 880

ADFET CONÚ NECH NAD GOÍ GEOIN.

.i. noaisneded co rici nú inti na aithgéoin goi and fein. t adfet fil and idem 7 uetus testamentum 7 a nnu. is nouuw testamentum .i. no aisneded | dun fetarlaic co 12a núfíadnaise ut dixtt angelus i monachus. 885

Maccán umal atbeir cet Deus ei indulget. fortgella. nú. 7 fet i mbethaid suthain surget.

GRESS RO FER FECTHNACHU2 890

.i. ro g/-v?ssaig3 t rochemnig immalle frisna firu .i. aingil. t sic .i. ba fechtnachu each gress4 in grass ro ferastar Colum Cille.

FRI ÁRTHU ARCHATRU CO DOMUN DRINGTHIER

.i. fri aradu na catrach uaisli rodringestar co domun 895 .i. corba dó a somain t do5 domun .i. co dá somain .i. cuirp 7 an ma t co domun .i. ad coelum i fri arthu archa/m6 .i. ar chatir nime coru drebraing in domun fri fidisi riagla 7 dismirechta2 noeb ar it arid dogairter ut dicitux scale i coeli s[«w]t7 sancti. 900

1 the contraction stroke is over the i, t bearing the tnark of aspiration. " sic. 3 gmsaig Facs. 4 grels Foes. 5 over d is written c. 6 the contraction stroke

is over the a, c bearing the tnark of aspiration. 1 contraction stroke om.

. 32 [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] [12a17-12b*

Ar DEO DOENACHTHA

.i. ar denacht1 meic Dé rochesastar .i. co ragbad greim dó cesad meic De f ar Dia dognid doenacht .i. tidnacul neich ar Dia. 905 Ar assaib rigthier

.i. is airi dognidsom ar sásad dó isind richiud huasal

RlRIR ACCOBUR A SULA

.i. ro rec ar Dia cac/i ni rob accobor riae suil na mna 7i*.

910 Sui SLAN CREAS CK/ST

.i. in lánsui sen rocretestar Cm/ i slan cen pheccad. i creis .i. a uerbo cresco .i. ro forbrestar mntm i Crist f dorat Crist forbairt fair.

Ceo ni coirm ceo ni sekcoll2 saith sechnais beoil 9i5 .i. ocus ni ebed coirm t ni carad coirm 7 nirbo sercad leis co ollsaith do sechnad da.no in beoil

Bai cath bai cast

.i. ro bai cath3 \ ro boi cath .i. catholicus.

Bai carthait 920 -i. tóit Ian do déirc eseom uli t fichthe Colum Ci[l/<?o deseirc.4]

Clothond oc buaid

.i. robo ail [i cath4] he oc breith buada do each f clothond .i. cloch5 cloithi. quia fit ond cloch robo cloch 925 iarum cloithi each uile Colum Cille

Boi LES LAN

.i. boeseom co tabrad a lánles do each

Boi LEOR LES OIGED

.i. robo leor no lesaiged aegedu. 930 Boi obeid

.i. auidus .i. laind. | 12b Bai huasal. boi huas a bás

.i. ba fortail for bas .i. for diabul. i peccad. i rob uais a bás. i rofitir bás uasa.

1 ard enacht MS. 2 ser coll, MS. 3 sic, MS. supply dó fri demun 7 domunr

Rawl. 4io deseirc. JJ i cath (/. j7), in ras. by H. 5 ck in ras H.

12b4-33] [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] 33

Boi LIEN 935

.i. lenis .i. ailgen.

BOI1 LA CRIDE CECH ECNADA

• i. robo liaig lesaigthe cride each ecnada t robo chaimrigthe do reir cride cec ecnada ondi as ligo .i. cumrigim 940

Ar aiind n-axal n-acallad

.i. ar n-úasal no aicelled in n-aingel diarbo ainm Axal t iar mind n-axal n-accallaim .i. iar n-acallaim Dé dosom ar is ed mind n-aingel Cm/ mac Dé í a n-as dech de ainglibba meníc dorim a n-accallaim stde ba tanaisi da//0 945 do accallaim aingel a acallaimseom.

Ba ainmne ara mbeba

.i. do ítaid atbath .i. do lugu dige atbath ar ni chaided2 lind na biad isin blisidazn atbath acht i sathurnd t i ndomnuch. 950

BÁ BIND

.i. bá bind a guth icelebrad3. Ba óf.n a cherd cléirchechta

.i. rob oen dia eladnaib cleirchecht ar ba suí ba fáith ba file í robo leor do each ind óenchert chleirchechta 955 bai oca, ut Patriots d/x//

Genfid maccan dia fine bid sui bid faith bid file in main lesbaire glan glé nad ebera immarbé 960

Ba do doinib discrutain

.i. ba ansa do doinib scrútan a gnim son t commad discréit bad choir and .i. ni chluined screit dune in bale i ndénad a crabud .i. isin ditrub i isin dubrecles.

BA DIN DO NOCHTAIB 965

.i. imm etach

BA DID DO BOCHTAIB

.i. immi biad.

1 supply liaig ; liag Y, lig R. LH. 2 sic, fur chaithed. 3 sic, for ic c.

D

34 [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] [WW-M^2

Ba nua no chesad cach tromm DIOFOTHUCII 970 .i. cach tromfotach no chésad ba anw/ nua leisseom sein t ba truimmiu cach othaig dun in cesad nua sa ar in Dall.

O CHOLUSt COSC TUATH

.i. o Cholum nochoisctís na túatha.

975 Ml AD MAR MUNEMAR MANN( )l

A. tiagmait ina munigin in morairmitnig sin im nem

dúinn. t dommunem doberthar ainnitiu mór do do

13achind na gnim2 so. Miad mair .i. imbed | Manna .i. in

maind. is ed atbertis meicc Israel fria manchu .i. qt/id est

•980 hoc nisi cibus celestis dommuinirnar iarum doberthar

arm i tin mor in bid nemda dosom

Nod geilsigfe ckisi' eter dligtechu .i. no ngebasom Crist ina geilsine .i. ina munteras eter na dligthechu. eteraingliu 7 archaingliu.

985 TRIASNA CÍAXA COTAISLIA3

.i. trisin ré cian robui ic taisled i fos .i. oc crabud.

De prudentia eins 7 lectio»^ 7 sapien//V?

ErGNAID SUI SIACHT SLICHT CÉTRAIR

.i. is ergna in sui ro siacht slicht na cetri smscelaigtke.

990 COITLUID LA DO CETUL DO NIMIATH IARNA3 CROICH

.i. is amlaid dolluidseom co iath nime iarna chesad i fos co cetul muint/re nime 7 talman f it i4 chlais aingel nime.

CÉT CELL CUSTOID TOND FO OGI OlFFR/ND

995 .i. rochoemestar cet cell fo chomlaintius tuinni cailig ofirind. t cet cell cosa taet tond mara 7 cintech ar écintech and.

1 final stroke of 'N and A broken off, read manna. 2 sic, fomgaim.. 3 between

coin Dins here t, not the usual ut\-sign. cp. note, p. 8j. ' iti MS., for it di.

13a22-13b9] [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] 35

OLL NÍ NI IDAL

.i. is oil in trenfer hé 7 noco n-idlacht dognith. I oil ani dognith do maith 7 ni idlacht. 1000

Nl ELLASTAR CLOENCHLEIR

.i. ni ailed na cliara nidligtecha1

DOELLAR FO INMUILC

.i. no fegad eat fo innib a n-uilc. i no taidled eat co taprad a phennait cóir for each, i ba gabail ella dondioos uasul na cloenchliara combo maith no immuilged cretim forru i nosbliged do sallund .i. do denam sallaind.

Ni FÓET NI FUACHT NAD HERIS

.i. nirofoid nech uad do denam uilc. 7 nirofuachnaig fein na heris .i. ni rabi fis comrairnech2 aicce. .i. heres 1 1010 niroaslaig heris for nech.

Ni AENED NÍ NÁ BUI I RRECT RIG

.i. ní dénad ni do aini acht iar nirgetaid Dé .i. nained3 i ndomnaigib. i ni airdercaiged ni acht do reir ríagla Dé.

Nand etsa BAS BITH 1015

.i. arnad etad i na bad istad do bas tria bithu t isin bith.

Beo a AINM .i. i fos. I

Beo a anuaim 13b

.i. a anim tall. 1021

Ad4 imbud fodruair fo recht noeb .i. ro furestar co mbeith do fo dirgetaid na noeb i ara fot rodrubastair fo recht noeb is airi5 as beo a ainm i fos 7 a anim tall ar immed fodruair .i. ara fot. quia fit 1025 immed .i. fota ut d/xzV poeta is imtherc

cos int6 abcan oc imthecht. in t-aboc o Rus chaem Chas nocon-é a taeb as imda .i. fota. 1030

1 sic, for indligtheclia. '-' sic, for comraircnech. 3 sic, for ni ained.

4 sic, for Ar. 5 i hook partly oblitsrated. ar\ Facs, 6 sic.t D 2

36 [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] [13b=-36

Frisbert tinu a thoeb

.i. rorithbrúi conárbo thiuch a thóeb. frisbert tinu a thoeó .i. ro mairnestar ut dixit poeta

nech frisbert a thigerna 1035 nirbat1 ile a liberna

co rrucait namait a chend a gabair is a dubcend

.i. a ech 7 a chlaideb ar colg 7 dubcend duo nomina gladii stint isin tengoedilg. ut dixit poeta

1040 nir for braigt/Hb dam na bo

fromthair colg mo ruanadó for braigtib rig foceird feit indi dubcend oc Diarmait.3

TUIL A CUIRP CUILLSIUS

1045 .i. ro choillestar toill a chuirp .i. is e a milliud a nemdenam.

CUILL A NEOIT

.i. ro chuillestar in gainni ut poeta dixit

in maith lib 1050 in tan asberar fir frib

a ssaiges sere saigit seoit ni geib neoit fri nech as dil.

Nad in meic mac hui chuind

.i. cuich in mac ni handset em mac hui Chuind .i. 1055 Co\um Cii/e t nibu in meic hui Chuind gainni f neoti. \ nad maicc adnacht mc hui cheo Chuind .i. ni bui in maicc acht bás f<?/;'bthe .i. m^c hui cheo Chuind cith .i. ni bu iarmua acht ba hua Cuind quasi dixisset bá soerchland cia forodomair mór o Dia

1 nirba Facs. • sic. 3 Diar in ras. cp. I. go-/.

13b37-14a26] [AAIRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] 37

CUIL DEIM DE EOT 1060

.i. ní derna de eot ní nodigbad cuil .i. ondi as demo .i. digbaim. i de fót as choir and .i. de fuachtain. Cuil deim de formut .i. ni derna de formut ni digbas cuil.

Fo LIB LIGE A AI AR CECH SAETH SRETA SINA 1065

.i. is maith lib a eolchu a lige Coluim Cille ar no lead a drucht 1 a úr ar ca^c1 ngalar no ráethnaiged2 rais na sina .i. each sin a rathe.

Tria thuaith idlaig dorumeoin3 retu

.i. ic dul dó I tria thuaith na n-idal ro finnad a 14a mbibdanas fri Dia co tabrad form cretim do Dia 7 ondi 1071 as reatus atá rétu.

Ar credla cairptiu

.i. is aire dorat in mes sa forru ar in carpat credal a cuirp t ara cleirchecht ro rec a cairptiu. 1075

Cath sir soich fir fiched fri coluaim

.i. ropo suthain a chath fri demon 7 domun soich fir .i. rosechestar firinne fiched fri culuain. no fuachtnaiged fría cholaind i fos.

CONA REGA IN RÍGM-áC FOR DEDE DÉ 1080

.i. noco raga mac in rig .i. Colum Cille for indara email fil ic Dia.

I N-ATHGUTH I N-ATHFERS

.i. isin guth n-aigthide .1. ite maledicti i i n-athguth .i. isin guth fil. Aithle gotha aile remi. i n-athfers .i. niba loss isin fers tánaise ragas acht isin cétfers .i. uenite bene- dicti. 7 rt.

ADRADNACHT RIA N-ÁES RIA N-AIMNIURT

.i. ro adnacht riasiu tísad áes dó .i. riasiu robo senoir 7 rob amnertach ar it sé bliadna .lxx. robo lán de. 1090

Ar iffurnd i n-albu ómun

.i. ar omun iffirnd dochuaid i nAlbain. hue usque .ui. id.

1 sic. - íáe] é with a stihscr. MS. 3 x\- stroke more like that ofm.

38 [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] [14a26-14b8

De comendaticw£ laudis eius rege nepotum Néil.

1095 AED ATNOIa ULEb OLL DOINE DRO.VCHÉTALc1

.i. Aed mac Ainmerech dorat .uii. cumala don Dull ar ainm do thabairt isin molad sa Coluim Chille 7 roiaithnestar2 Aed don Dull commad druiniu cech cetal in cetal sa. 1100 Fechta for nia nem

.i. in tan no regad in trenfer .i. Cohim Cill^ <\uia fit. nia .i. trenfer ut áiciiur

Fidchell Cremthaind niaid Náir msheir mac bee do leitáin. 1105 leth a foirne d'ór buide

a lleith aile d'indruine. Óenfer dia fairind namma nochrenad sech2 lánamna.

Ni ANDIL mo .i. nirbo nemdil la Dia hé acht robo dil.

Ni SUAIL

.i. nir bee hé. 3i ni handil .i. niro indil3 7 níro úaig ni bad suail. Ni suaig 1115 .i. niro sufuaig. |

14b Ni NIA NAD NUA FRI COTACH CONUAILL

.i. ni trénfer nac/i nua insó fri cotach .i. fri glinnigud

chotaig Conaill .i. eter tuatha Conaill ar medon. i ic

dénam a cotaig fri tuathaib ailib dianechtair i ni nua .i.

1120 nocon uil ocund in trenfer uages ni nua fri cotach

Conaill 7 ni suaig tosach na ceille sic. i da?io .i. ni fil

a .i. ro aithnestár [H] b .i. conibad ulliu [H] c .i. combad diuniu a

chetal [H]

1 mark of abbreviation more like an m -stroke. 2 sic. -V3 belonging to the

previous gloss, out of place here and i?i Lib. Hy'7n.

14b8"44] [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLE] 39

ocund in trenfer athnuiges cotach Conaill. ni nia in tosach s/c fri cotach conuail .i. ic sith eter corp 7 anmain.

Cluidsius borb beolu bennacht BATAR IC TOÍ 1125

TOILRIG

.i. ro chloi béolu inna mborb bátar ic ardríg Toi cid ed bad áil léo olc do rad conid bennachad dognitis ut fuit lalam.1

O DONIB DEIMTECHTA OC DEO DESSESTAR 1130

.i. o doinib rodigbad ic Dia2 tarrasar

AR ADBUD AR ÁNI ATRONNAI AR GART GLAN HUA HI CATHAIR CONUAIL

.i. ara ainmni 7 ara áini ro ernai gart nglan hua Conuaill inna chatir i huasom Codiáir moir do Laignibii35 i lleth o mathair i ar adbchlos ocus ar áini ro ernai in gart glan 7 rt. ar ní dénadsom sein ut faciunt hipocritae

Hi cudbud cainsruith sceo magist^/? muintere.

hicudbuda .i. women doloris .i. ingiub sechi robo chain iarum in sruith cona toimled magne cona ragbad 1140 in galar0 sein hé. ocus da.no robo maigister muintere immon cétna f ingu sechi .i. is ifechtain3 rothogmainga sechi hé ar immed a dan t ic udbud .i. ic fethugud adbb ic éirniud chest na canoni. i ic udóud .1. ic dibdud ngoa i ic udbud .i. ic foibadud .i. ic bádud cuirp Crw/ foa uil ic 1145 ofiriund. i ainm do boith légind i profir'ium loci i Ceneol Chonaill

Fri angel n-acallastar atgaill grammataig GR£ic

.i. dognid aingel d'accallaim ocus ro foglaind gram- mataig anW Gr^cu t no aicilled grammatacdu ocus 1150 Grécu. I 4

» {in marg.~\ i icud( )5 .i. ic fadb ( )5bad fad( )6 ( )6m ba b( )5d ( )6 Co\um tille [M] b Í ing [M] « .i. ingu eich [M]

1 sic, for Balam. - Ms. more like tna. ;i isi f.. MS., for is infechtain. 4 breaks off; a leaf lost here. b Meg. 6 letters cut away with outer margin.

40 [AMR A CHOLUIM CHILLE] [15a1"16

15a 'ocus Co\u7n Cille t sic frecurimsea ceill atamchomnaic dirgitetaid mo Crist cumachtaig .i. immcomairge. Finit ami« finit.

1155 Cohan Cille ceci;/it

Dia ard airlethar aingel indrechta tabred dagb^rta for ar n-imtechta.2

1160 for ar n-imrimmend

ar rxach n-elammar ar nac/i omonar riasam ternamar.

for ar 3dianarlib 1165 Dia domm aidbresa

Crw/ dom ditisea Dia dom airlesena; Dia ard 7 rt. Finit amen.

Colum cáid cumachtach a cléthib clithnimi

1170 tairi domm imnádud

archaingel Héil. ar biastaib ilardaib imdubaib imthennaib ticed domm imdegail

1175 inhua Néil.

Nert n-irsi firinni fin crothe cruthaige

1 acephalous, owing to loss of a leaf; cp. Haul. B. 502. 2 the opening stanza written in half -uncials. 3 sic, for nd. 4 sic, for airlisea.

15a16"33] [AMRA CHOLUIM CHILLEJ 41

Comdiu cloth cobtelach

cluined mo gairm. ar athchaib tennide ^80

ar intech n-anaichnid admuniu móritge - m<?zc Ethne ainm.

Ar Comdiu cumachtach

ar cond slúag sochaide ns5

ar suí ar slánicid

snadsium ar eel. ar cend cáid comarli ar commor moradbal ar n-árad firinni 1190

fiadat fri nem

Nertsom sund sírsáegul sírchóemna m'anmasa scéo colla

céin bethir and. 1195

Colum ar thrócaire co dora dom commairge

fomm esgairm thall.

Tair dag tair sacarbaic

mo beolu bánchoibsen 1200

sét ná bo rom. ré domm anim rop o lamaib Colaim accoe a colain

cen chloine cen chol. 1205

Colum caid cumactac a cléthib

í -±2 ]

[15a34-15b"

Scél Tuain meic Cairill do Finnen1 Maige Bile inso

sís

TAR dudecht do Finnén Maige Bile cosin toscelu i tír

1210 * nÉrend i crich Ulad luid dochum laich saidbir and 7

nís relic isin les cuci coro throiscet^- ací ío domnach 7

nirbu maith a chretem ind laich. Asbert Finnen fria

muinter.2 doforficba fer maith robdídnoba 7 innisfid dúib

senchas Hérend.

15b Iar sin dosfic sruith clérich | arna bárach matain moch

i2i6feraid3 failti friu. Taít limsa dom disiurt ol se is dudchu

dúib lotar leis 7 dogniat ord in domnaig eter salmu 7

precept 7 offrend. Ro íarfaig Finnen a slonniud de asbert

friu de Ultaib damsa ol se. Tuan4 mac Cairill mesi meic

1220 Muredaig Munderc. Ro gabus for orbu m'athar a

ndisCert sa5] Tuan4 mac Stairn meic Sera meic brath#r do

Y^xtholon rob e mo lonnud tall ar thus, ro iarfaig Finnen

dé imtechta Herenn .i. ani forcoemnacair inti o amsir

Partholoin meic Sera. 7 asbert Finnen ná airbértaís bith

1225 aici coro innised dóib senchasa Erend. Asbert Tuan6 fri

Finnen is ansu dún cen brethir Dé atchúadsu dun do

imrarud.7 Is cet duitsiu trá ol Finnen t'imthechta féin

7 imthus na Hérend do innisin dun.

Cóic gabala ém ol se rogabad Hériu iar nilind 7 nis 1230 ragbad iar nilind coro chateá di bYiaa'ain8 .xii.9 ar .ccc.9 Is iarsein rogab Partholon mac Sera doluid for loiigais cethora lanamna fichet nírbo mór amainsi cáich díb fri áraili trebsat Herind co mbátar cóic mili día sil and. Dosánic dunebad eter da domnach con-erblatar uli acht

1 'fínen Facs. - sic. 3 f Facs., spot in MS. 4 Tuam, MS. with punctum

delens over the last stroke of re.. b in ras. by H. 6 n corr. by erasure from m.

1 sic, for imradud. 8 added above line. 9 in ras.

15tF-16a!1] SCÉL TUAIN MEIC CAIRILL 43

óenfér namma ar ní gnáth orgain cen scéola do ernam 12355 esi do innisin seel dara n-esi is mesi da.no in fer sin ol seseom

Bása iarum o dingnu do dingnu 7 o aill do aill ocom imditin ar chonaib altaib na di bliadain ar fichit ro baí Heriu fás Dolluid crini chucumsa 7 sentath 7 ro ba 1240 i n-allaib 7 i ndithrubaib 7 forémed imtecht 7 no bitis úama irdalta acum.

Ros gab iarum Nemed mac Agnomain bráthair athar damsa 7 atachimsea a hallaib 7 basa fora imcabáil 7 me mongach ingnech crin Hath nocht trog imnedach. Basa 124.5 aidchi and iarum im chotlud con-aca mo dul i richt oiss allaid. Bása i suidiu 7 me óc 7 ba maittf lim mo menma | [iss and sin roradiw-ra na briatra sa sis. 16a

Amnirt indiu mac Senbath 1249-50

ar ro scarad re thendrath ni fó degblad co nirt núa atá mac Senbath semúa

Na fir sea thecait anair

cona rennaib ruamnait gail 1255

nim thá lúd hi cois i i llaim

do thecht fora n-imgabáil.

Stariw is tairbech in fer

atagur Scemel sciathgel

nimm ain Andind cia dagind 126(>

mad hé Béoin nisn-agsind

Cía rom ácbad Beothach béo

Cachír is garb a garbgléo

Britan doni dagáib gus

ata fraech ferci ar Fergus 1265

Atát chucum a comdi cain eland Nemid nWc AgnonW» trén atat for ti mfola do chosnam mo chetgona

1 This page has been entirely re-written in /as. by H ; membrane perforated in places.

44 SCEL TUAIN MEIC CAIRILL [16a12"39

1270 Ro córaigit dam trém chend

da beind for tri fichtib rend co filim garbliath i rricht ar cáemchlód aísi a hamnirt .a.

Basathoisechsa do almaib Heretid iar sudiu o ro bá i rricht sétha. 7 1275 boí alma mor do ossaib alta immum each conair nothegind. Dorum- altsa iarom m'amsir amlaid sin fri hamsir Nemid 7 fri amsir a claindi. In tan iarom tánic Nemed doch«»/ na Herend a m?/rchoblach cetheora barca .xxx. a lin 7 tricha in cech báirc conosrala in muir for sechran fri ré bliad«<2 co lleith for muir Chaisp. 7 ro bateá iar sin 7 1280 atbathatár di gortai 7 d'itaid acht cetheora lanamna namma im Nemed. Ro forbair a silsom iar sin 7 ro chlannaigestár3 corrabatár cethri míli ar tricbait lanamna and. Atbathatarsz'i/e dano uli.

Dolluid iarom crini 7 sentatu formsa 7 basa for teched re ndainib 7 conaib alta. Bása fechtas and i ndorus m'úama cttman lim beus 7 1285 rofetar techt asin richt i n-araili. Ludsa iarom i ndeilb thuirc allaid iss and asbertsa

Glasrenga me indiu eter cuanaib am triath tren co robuadaib domrat i ndubi ndecair 1290 ri na nuli i n-ilrechtaib

Matan ro basa oc Dún Bré oc comrac fri sensruthe ba cáem mo churi dar lind lenad ócbad aibind sind

1295 Mo churi robtar dathi

eter fiannaib i n-aithi1 fogertis mo gai ma sech for ocaib Fail for cech leth.

In tan no bimmís n-ar dáil2 ,1300 oc cocert breth Partholain

ba bind fri each na eanaind ba siat briatra firthadaill

Ba bind mo chocert áni eter andrib co n-álli 1305 ba segda mo charpat cáem

ba bind mo dord dar dubráen

■ .i. tore [H]

1 ait/ibi MS. with punctum delens over b. - sic, for ndáil. 3 ..istár Facs.

16a1"-! 6b29] SCÉL TUAIN MEIC CAIRILL 45

Ba lúath mo chéim cen fordul

hi cathaib oc imforcum

ba cáem mo drech ro boi la

indiu ciarsam glasrengsa. gt. 1310

Bása ém forse hi sudiu isin delb sin 7 mé óoc 7 ba maith lim mo menma 7 bamsa rurech do thretaib tore Herend 7 doimchellaind mo dj.i|_rais beus in tan ticind hisin crich sea Ulad i1 n-amsir mo chrini 7 16b mo throgi. ar is i n-oenmagin no" claemcloindsea na delba sin uli is airi sin no thathigindsea in n-inad sin beus do idnaidi ind athnugthi. 1315

Gabais Semion mac Stariath in n-insi sea iar sin. is dibside Fir Domnand 7 Fir Bole 7 Galiúin. 7 ro trebsatszafe in n-insi sea fri ré.

Dolluid crini 7 sentatu formsa iar sin 7 batorsech lim mo menma 7 forfémmedus each rét no gniind remi do dénam. acht basa i n-uamannaib dorchaib 7 i n-allaib diamraib m'oenur. 1320

Ludsa iar sin dom durais dilis dogrés. Cuman lim each richt i rraba riam. Ro ainius mo thredan ama/ dogniind do grt's. nimbai cumang cena. Ludsa iar sin i ndeilb segi mori .i. murrech adbul. Maith lim on dano mo menma. Ba fortail mé for each rét. Basiratech imtholtanach dano no luind dar Erind no findaind3 each ret is and 1325 atbertsa.

Séig indiu glasreng indé

ingnad alaig utmaille

ansu lim ar each 10 de

Dia in cara rom crwthaige4 1330

Is sochaidi eland Nemid ca?i réir ruirech rigdemin uathad indiu sil Sera ni fetar cid ioiera

Uter tretaib tore ro bá 1335'

cía tú indiu eter énelta rofetarsa 'na mbia de biatsa beus i rricht aile

Ingnad roordaig Dia dil

mesi 7 clanna Nemid 1340

siatsom ac reir demain dé

mesi is Dia mo chomarse. seig

Gabais Béothach mac Iardonel Fatha in n-insi sea forsna cen^la robátar inti. is dibs/</e Tuatha Dee 7 Ande dona fes bunadas lasin

1 í very faint, om. Foes. - no barely legible, on fracture ; do Fans. 3 ro L. Facs. 4 gh Facs.

46 SCÉL TUAIN MEIC CAIRILL [16b*>-41

1345 n-aes n-éolais acht ba dóich leó ba din longais dodechaid1 de nim

dóib. ara n-engnaigi 7 ar febas a n-eolais. Basa tra amsera móra i

ndeilb in tsega sin co tormaltus na cenda sin uli ro gabsat tír nErend.

Gabsat dano m«c Miled in n-insi seo for Túaith Dé Danand ar

écin. Dollodsa2 dano andside i ndeilb inna séga sin i rraba3 co mba

1350 hi ciís craind for smth. Ro aínius nómaid andszafe yrothuit cotlud form. 7 lodsa i rricht iaicha aba andaide. Domchuritar Dia isin n-abaind iarsin co mba inti. Maith lim ón &a.?io 7 basa setrech saithech 7 bá maith mo snám 7 no elaind as gach gabud 7 as each4 airrceis .i. a llamaib línaige 7 a crobaib ségae. 7 o gaib iascaig co

1355 filet a crechta in( )5] |

il .i. br tán [H] [leg. bratan]

1 ..chaid/z Facs. '- second o indistinct ; Do ba Facs. :i irrabas Facs.

4 gach Facs. h a couple of letters illegible, in very faint ; indum, Laud.

Breaks off, chasm in MS ere.

[ 47 ]

17a138] [DÁ BRÓN FLATHA NIME]'

2Héle co mbí fo chrund bethacl hi pardus 7 soscela ina laim do 17a ph;rcept dona hénaib út. Dotháegat iarom ind eóin co mbít oc ithe cháer in chraind. Cáera mora dano sin at milsiu each mil 7 at mesco each fin. Biit iarom oc ithe na cáer. Oslaicid iarom Eli iarsin in soscéla. Laside doimmaircet ind eóin a n-ette 1360 friu 7 a cossa can scibud ette ná cosse co tairic in praicept. Laithe mbrátha dano iss ed pridchas dóib .i. a ndoberar do thodérnamaib for anmannaib duíne día brátha .i. na cethri srotha im Slíab Sión ic loscod na n-anmand na ndeich mile h\\adna 7 deich cét mbliad#<a: in each mile. Fota in gábud sin 1365 dano do neoch ocá mbiat pecda. Is maith do neoch ocá mbia degáirliud cid isind ló sin nammá. Cen co beth and acht sein. bá méte ná cotlad nech oca imrádud céin nobeth ina bethu. Céinmothá titacht Cr/s/ co noengrádaib nime. 7 feraib talman do neoch ro génair 7 geinfes co bráth 7 muint^r iffirnd. Is 1370 amlaid dano dorróega chucu inti Isu Cr/s/ 7 a croch derg fria ais do digail forro a crochtha ara tuídecht dia tesorcain ar gin Diabuil. Is adbol iarom in slúag bias.3 Iss i fíadnaise diin tslúaig doasfénpha each a gnimu eter maith 7 saich. Cách ar úair on do thaisfénad 4a n-athcho/z/airc1 a n-atchonnarcatár a súile 1375 7 i n-atrubratár a mbeóil 7 a tenga 7 á ndorónsat a láma 7 ani mándechatár a cossa. Crist mac Dé 7 aingil nime 7 fir thalmau 7 fir iffrind ic coistecht fris dóib uile coro láis in tasfénad sin do dénam. A demon comaitechta oc taithmet dó each uile dorigne ar no bídsi'de fora láim chliseom do grcs oca 1380 forcomét. A aingel comaitechta dano fora láim deis oc taithmet dó a ndorigne do maith.

O tháiric dó sin uile. Fégaid sein a brithemnu ar Crist cia de as trummu a maith andá a ole ind fir sea.5 Eirged iarom i n-óentaid aingel or Cr/s/. Dothaegat ind aingil ara cind a 1385

1 sic LL, 280a. The title and opening sentences of this tract are wanting,

owing to a chasm in the MS. Hand M begins here. - supply Téit dí LL.

■'• sic, supply and, LL. etc. 4~4 dittogr., om. LL. etc. 5 sic, supply Is trummu a maith, LL etc.. omitted here through homoioteleuton.

48 LDA BRON FLATHA NIME] [17a38-18an

Uáma fúcna. Fo chen duit ar each cuc«wsa doraga or araile. Is comthrom a maith 7 a hole daw ind fir seo. Lenne a leth deszV/e ar Diabul. Ni etarscérthar ind anim ( )' ar2 is

17btressiu mo chumachtasa ragaid | limsa. Is Xxumvciw da//c a ole

1390 ind fir sea. Firged des/i/e lá ole cosin mui[//]t/r3 doréga4. Dothíagat demna ara chind 7 ferait mifáelti fris. In tan irn ro scáig in t-et^;'gleód sa sil Adaim. is and atbera Crist techt la Díabul cona daescorslúag do neoch dpdraega 7 rolai ina muin- teras i n-iffernd cen nac/i forcend. Atreset iarsin 7 dobcrat a

1395 n-óengáir essib occá tarraing do Diab?// lais i n-iffern.

It é daw teóra gáire in domain .i. in gáir dorigset túath Dé ocá timarcon don4 hRgepta afaió la Foraind ri Muir Romair. dia mmarbad 7 dia ndilgend 7 do thabairt a mm<7c 7 a n-ingen i ndaíre co bráth acht manis tesorced Dia. Ocns gáir fer

1100 n-iffirnd 7 anmand sil Adaim do neoch atruba.lt dib n'a crochad Crist .i. dosfuc ar ulc ri Díabul condas fil i n-erbothaib flatha nime. In gáir di ro láeset na hanmand iar n-imtholtain tuidechta ó Diabul 7 gáir fer n-iffirnd ina ndiaid. In ties gáir .i. gáir na n-anmand do neoch atroille iffernd díb icá sroínud ind do

H05 bithaitreb penc 7 rége cen nach crich etzV.

In muint6'r im doróega Dia ragaits/V/e dochum na flatha suthaine la Crist mac nDé co mbiat and sin tria bithu sir eter airbrib árchaingel.

Erbada tra lathe brátha issii/pridchas Héle ann// ro ráidsern

1410 acht is bee di mór chena ani sin.

Ama/ dúnas iarom in clérech a lebor dobcrat ind eóin a ngáir essib 7 túargit a n-ette ria tóebaib co táegat a srotha fola essib ar ómon lathe brátha.

In tEle iarom 7 in tFnóc asberar sund ernajditsiV/e ar cind a

1415 mmarbtha 7 a mmartra do chomailliud fástine in Chomded atrubairt tria gin ind fátha. Q?/is est homo qui uiuit 7 won

18a uidébit morte/// .i. Cia roblais | bethaib5 na blasfe bás. Dotháe- gats(?/// iarom ar cind Arvcxist fri dered domain conid leisidé claidbebtair .i. Diabul i rricht duine intí Ancrist am<7/ bid do

1420 tabairt cretme isin domon dotháet. epscop dogní fria ingin dia haine hé. Iss^/atberar na derna Crist hi talam mirbail na ding- neseo[;//]G acht mairb do dúscud. Acht chena bid lánsum ó etrud

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Ti-stroke 0111. i sic. ° sie, read bethaid. G m-stroke om.

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7 ó anbírinne [Tri bliadna. .xxx.1] co lleith da.no a áessom ama/ rob ed áes Crú/. Sood a pólaire ina etun iss é comartha bias fair. Cach óen na cretfe dó claidbebtair laisseom. ar iss ed atbeirseom H2.5 conid hé féin mac Dé 7 conid hé ro thirchansatar fádi. Conid hé Míchél dotháet do nemdaib dia fordinge 7 conid hé gebes claideb dó. Conidaté íarom dá brón fiatha nime. Héle 7 Er.óc ina corpaib críad eter ainglib nime co táegat ar cind Ancrzs/.2 <~>

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19a dianda tairle mo lorgsa mairfidus Is messe ol Triscoth.

1431 Nách fer dib donecuchussa co handíaraid atbélat a beóil. Is messe ol Reordae drúth. Is messe ol Nia natrebuin chró. Is messe ol Daeltenga. nechtar n-átharni nod ra ol Dub J Rodub. Cotréracht each fer díarailiu imbi. Nacha foglúesed

1435 ani sin ol Sencha. Fer dongegat \3\aid cinip é gaiscedach bas dech bes and. is é nod raga. Cia uanni son ol \l\aid. Cu ChuXaiud ucut cenip se gaiscedach bas dech and is hé nod raga. Frisnerachtatar2 iarom isin les 7 Cu Chulaznd remib. Inn é in genid seo as dech gaisccd la hUltu ol Fintan. La

1440 sodain lingid Cu Chulaind i n-ardai co mboi for tulchinniu ind

lis. 7 fcrroebling a galsced forsind aurdrochut con torchartár dia

n-ailchengaib in gaisc^ ro bátár isin dun. Ructa iarom hi tech

ndarach ciiachlete 7 comla ibair aire i mbatár tri fertraigid dia

tiget. 7 da drolam iaraind esse. 7 indb^r íarind arin dá drolam

$4 íjivuuL 1445 sin. Ro hetrad a tech di cholctib 7 brothrachaib. Dobert Crom

(jc KM- Vát**d Deroil a ngaisceda inna ndiaid. 7 sudigthi. 7 arrocabar gaisc^

in*tCo*$l^* fr. . Con Cvftatnd úasaib. Tessaigid indlat dóib ol Ailill. 7 dob-rt

/7£j ["u r "*'J coirm 7 biad doib comtar mesca. Dodasathiged Crom Deróil

béos dús i mbuí ní bad áil dóib. 0 raptar mesca benais Senc/ia

1450 bascrand. ícwtúasiset fris uli. Tabraid tra íor mbennachtain forsin fiaith donfáncid iségonnae3 ro both frib. ní lám i ngort liibocht is imda coirm 7 bíad dúib lasin fláith donangz'í/ nírbu écen a rád fri urgnam. Is fir són ol Dóeltenga. Tongz^a a toinges mo thúath nkacon ricfaid far tír co bráth. acht a mbertae

1455 eóin úaib inna crobaib acht fir Herend 7 Alban do aitrib for tire 7 do breith ior mban 7 ior set 7 do brisiud cend for mac fri clocha. is de asbreth Fergus for Tána inso

Léic ass Dubtach nDoeltengad ar cul in tsluaig no srengaid |

19b nocon dergeni nach maith

1461 ro geogain in n-ingenraith.

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Ferais echt ndochlae ndobail

guin Fiachaig meic Concobair

nibu amru ro cloth dó

guin Mani mez'c Fédelmtheó 1465

Rigi nUlad ni chosnai mac Lugdach meic Casrubai iss ed dogni fri doini annad ruba contsuidi.

Ni gó ani sin trá ol Dubt/iac/i décidsi a tech dia daingni 7 a 1470 ndúnad fil ara tech. Nach facthi cid áil duib dul ass nípthá cumac dó. Is mebol damsa indosso mani fuil imorbága imar tobairt immuich. acht nammá in láech ucut as dech gaisc^ la hUltu rofestar fis scél úadib.

Cotrosci CÚ Chulamd 7 rólá [cor n-iach n-erredjj1 de i 1475 n-ar[da co rue]2 a chléthe n-óchtarach din tig co mboi for cléthiu in tigi aile co n-accae in slóg sis úad. Doralsat óenclár catha foraib dia tobairt. Dobert Ailill a druim frisin comlaid dia n-anacol. Gabsit a secht meic a láim on dorus.3 Dommemaid in slog for lár ind lis. Tolluid Cu Chu\ai/id coa mu'mtir 7 dobert a U80 luie4 frisin comlai co lluid a chos trethe co rice a glún. Mád do ben doléced ol Dóeltenga no biad ina lligu. Tobert Cu Chulaind a lue afridisi co mboi a n-imdorus isin tenlug fó. Fresdiadam ol Senc/za. iss ed bias and olso Cu Chulaind. Cach n-ada as ada do ócaib oc comruc bid ocaib. tofil fair5 celiu chucaib sund. 1485 Cate far n-arlea6 ol Senc/ia. tocraid ior ndrommand fri fraigid uli 7 bid a gaisced ar bélaib cáich 7 erbaid óenfer dá n-acallaim. Mád trummi t?/rcbáil a ndubí fochartaid a tech díb. Cia atagegalldatharb ol Senc/ia. Atagegallarsa ol Triscoth. Nách fer díb donécucussa atbélat a beóil. Batár a chéli oc airli a 1490 n-airlec immuich.

Ceist cia atageglathar 7 cetnaraga cucu isa tech ol ind óic ammuich. Ragatsa ol Lopán. Luid iarom ~Lopan isa tech cucu nonbor dó. In laích sin a láechu ol se. issed ar in laích. In fer co cind a chéli ol T)v\scoik. Fir fir. Driscoth sund | oc erlabrai 20a Ulad ni fuil aurlabrai mathi leo chenae. Danéci Trisc<?/$ co 1496 andiaraid co tarla a di bond bána fair.

a .i. for comaili [H] b .i. acaill'fes7 [H] c .i. oc denam a comairli [H]

1 Written by H in ras. - by H, da co in marg., rue in >as. cor rue Facs,

3 o in ras. l i subscr. 5 sic, the air compendium, i looks recent. c the at

compendium. " sic, i, ? stain.

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Tolluid iarom Fer Caille isa tech no/tbor. In lái//1 sin a laechw ol se. iss ed a n-imláin in fer co cind a cheli ol Driso;///.

1500 Daneci Drisctf//* co andiaraid co tarla a da bond bána fair.

Tolluid iarom Mianach Anaidgned isa tech nonbur. It bana linni ind o[-'thair h\et forsirr lar3J ol se. Daneci T)v\scoth. Domfecise ol se dús in n-ebél de. Gabais a cheli a chois foi 7 immambert forsna tri n0«boraib ro bátár isin tig iarom conná

1505 dechaid nach háe i mbethu ass eter sudiu.

Congair iarom in slóg ammuich immá tech dia gabáil for Ulto. Ro láiset iarom \3\aid a tech tara cend co torchratar tri chét fón tig din tslóg robuí friss anechtair. Dlútai in cath dialailiu. Batár iarom i n-imnisiu in chatha co medón laí ara

i5iobárách. Ro gab maidm for \J\tu ar abu ar bati4 úati.

Bui Ailill for sosad in dúine oca ndéscin. Roptar scéla innisen damsa scela \}\ad cosindiu. Atchúas dam ni bátár i nHére óic a cumvaa. dóib co n-accu ní dénat acht mebáil indiu. Is cian o as fásach ni gebthrfr cath cen rig. Mád imomsa irh

1515 dobertha in cath níbád chían folilastae. atchíd nim thása cttmac dóib is díguina domgonar imáib.

La sodain ro lá Cu Qhtúaind bedg de tresin mbudin 7 fordarubai fó thri. Fordarubai da.no Furbaidi Fer Bend mac Conchob^/r immacuaird. ni gointis a cheli ara lechetb

1520 leo. Cid na gonair ol alaile dib in ségond sa. Ni mellach acaine dogni. Tongussa a tongas [mo thúath5] cid cend óir no beth fair na ngénaind seo oc guin mo bráthar. benaid sz'de sleg n-ind 7 adbaill de. Mutti iarom in cath for Emu 7 ni ernai acht trian dib ass. Orgit \J\aid iar sin andún

1525 n-uli. 7 aingit Ailill 7 a secht maccu ar nad bátar hi cath friu |

20b O sin tra nirthrebad Temair Lochra.

Atdlui Crumthand Niath Nair ass. di Ernaib. Cowtric fri Richis mbanchainti tiar oc Eemain. mumme do Crz*//zthand in ben. In farcbad mo m^csa olsi. Forrácbad ol Cr/w/thand.

1530 Tair limsa ol si co nderais.c cisi digal ol Crzw/thand. Co rubae Coin Culaznd tara esi ol si. Cinnas dogéntar son ol éseom. Ni handsa. ma rut bet dí láim dó níbat [écen]3 nách n-aill chena ár fogéba i n-ascid.

Lotar di i ndiaid in tslúaig co farnactár Coin QvXaind for áth

a .i. sarugud [H] b .i. ara cliaimi [H] c .i. coro <iigla [_H]

1 t\- stroke converted to m-stroke by retracer. -~2 H, in marg. ' 3 H, in ras.

MS. originally ind othair ol se. i sic, for batir. 5 added above line, H.

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ara cind hi crích Úathne. Tiscaid Riches a hetach di fiad 1535 Choin Chulamd. Muchais Cu Chulamd a étan fri lár arnácha ndercachad a hernochta. Tofairthe hifechtso a Chrumthaind ol Richly, dofuil in fer chucut or Lóeg. Naté ém ol Cu C\\n\aind céin bes in ben in cruth ucut nís n-érussa. Gabais Lóeg cloich asin charput 7 dibaircid di condaecmaic tara lutain1 co mmemaid 1540 a druim i ndé. 7 combo marb de iarom. Cotréracht iarsin Cu Chulamd ar cend Crumtaind 7 fich fris co tuc a chend lais 7 a fodb.

Dollotár iarom i ndegaid in tslúaig co mbatár oc dun Con Culamd co feotár and i^sind aidchi sein. Bátár iarom for 1545 foirriuth co cend cethrachat aidche forind óenfeis la Coin Cu\ai/td. 7 tíagait uad iar tain 7 fácbait bennachtain leiss.

Tank da.no Ailill anes fri hUltu co mbui for célidi occo. Dobreth comlethet a enech di or 7 arg?// do Ailill 7 secht cumaXa. each meic dia maccaib. Dolluid iarom Ailz71 dochzim a 1550 thíri fó chori 7 óentaid fri Ultu. Boi iarom Conchob^r iarsin cen coscrad a rígi immi céin buí i mbíu .w.-^.w

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Táin bó Dartada in so sis

BOÍ Eocho Bee mac Corpri ri Clíach i nDún Cuille.a Batar cethraca dalta lais di maccaib rig 7 rurech na mMuman. Boi cethraca lulgach oca fria mbiathad na mac. Téit techta o Ailill 7 Meidb a dochttm co ndigs£<r/ | 1

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:Cid dofuci or Ail/// Find, coro faeem celidi latsu fair;// ár atá21a debuid dún fri Ail/// mac Mágach. Mád nech dit muintir seo noragad for debaid no an fad limsa co roisced a sid. Nianfa1560 om or Ail/// Find atfiadar dam rotchara mo ben. Tabar ascid dún dí di búaib or Fergus ár atá ecen mor fornd tochsaigid in tslúaig dolluid lind for longais. Ni béraso ascid úaimsea forse úair nách anaí célidi lim. Atbéra nech is ar anacol mo mná lim dobéraind deit an conaigi. Dobér dam co tinniu dúib dial565 furriuth masa adlaic lib chena.

Ni chathiubsa do bfíadso]2 irh for Fergus úair nach berim th'ascid. Asind lis dúib di or Ail///. Rotbia són or Fergus ni gebthar forbaes fort linni. Toc?///dát ass immach. Tairced fer ar mo chendsa i n-áth fo chétóir i ndorus ind lis. or Fergus, ni 1570 herfaid^r dom incaibse on sibsi imme sin or Ail///. Totháetside i n-ath ara cend. Cia [uaind ól Fer^mJ3 a Dubth[aig ragas ar cend]3 ind fir. Ragatsa or Dubthach am so 7 am anáithiu atáesiu. Téit Dubthach ara chend. Benaid Dubthach sleg. trita co ndechaid triaa da sliasait. Toleiciseom gai do Dubthach co 1575 mbert crand trit a lleth n-aill. Focherd Fergus sciath tar Dubthach bi?«idsom hi sciath Fergusa co mbert crand *trit fodesin.

Tautat Fergus. Tobeir Fergus mac Óenláimi sciath airiside. B^aid Ail/// gai hi suide co lluid trit. Focheird 1580 co mbuí ina Hgu fora chélib. Tautat Flidais asin dun 7 focheird a brat tairsiu a triur. Muitti iarom do mu'mUr Fergusa for teched. Téit Ail/// inna ndíaid. Fácabar .xx. láech lais díb. Atluí morfesser díb do Cruachnaib |

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21bla [Ai 7 adfiadat a2 sscél n-uli hi sudiu and sin do Ail/// 7 do Meidb.

1588 Coterig iarom Ailill 7 Medb 7 mathi Conacht 7 in loinges Ulad

olchenae. Adcosnat hi crich Ciarraigi Ai cona mbudnib co Ath Féne.

Rofuctha colléic la Flidais isin les ind firathgoiti 7 dognith a frebaid

lea. Tecait iarom in tslúaig dond lis.

1590 Congairthér Ail?7/ Find do Ailiwd3 mac Mata immach assind lis dia

acallaim. ni ragsa orse is mór a uallchas 7 a sotlacht ind fir fil and.

Ba do chocur chore cena boi Aih'/l mac Mata do Ailill Find 7 do

frebaid Fergusa do amal bad techta 7 do4 chórai friss iarsin do réir

tigernad Conacht. Bretha iarom ind óic athgoiti5 for fuataib immach

1595assin dunad co mbátar oca n-pthor lia muintir fessin. Nos fobret

iarom ind óic for togail in duni 7 niro fetsat nách ni do6, fri sechtmain

lain dóib fón n-innas sin. Dorrochratar secht fichit láech di mathib

Connacht oc togail7 a duine for Ail/7/ Find.

Nirbo sen maith dolodbair ol Bricrin do saigid in duni seo. Adde

1600 is fir ci atberthar son or Ailz7/ mac Mata. Olc do inchaib U\ad in

fechtas so na tri8 eclaiwd do thutim dib 7 nad tabrat digail fair. Ba

háge immairic each fer dib seo. nícon torchair cid óenfer lais nách ai

dib. It mora ám na tri córaid seo do bith fo sopaib fer in duni seo.

Mor incutbiud in t-oenfer do far nguin for triur. Uch cena for Bricriu

1605 is fota a chubat for lár mo phoba Ferguis ce ro trascair óenfer.

Lasodain atregat anchinnidi Ulad 7 siat lomnochta. 7 doberat fobairt

trén tolchar co feirg 7 londnus dermar co rrucsat an n-imdorus inna

cind co mboi for medon ind lis 7 tíagait CWachta léo immalle.

Dofecat a ndun ar ecin imna láthu gaili batár and. Dofecair cath

1610amnas étrócar etorro 7 nos gaib each dib for sraigled 7 esorcon a

cheli. Iar scis imgona 7 imforráin iarom dóib srainter for lucht in

dúnaid. 7 arselgat U\aid secht .c. láech and isin dunud im Ailill Find

7 im thricho mac dia maccaib. 7 im Amalgaid 7 im Núado. 7 im

Fíachaig Muinmetháin. 7 im Chorpri Chrom. 7 im Ailill mBrephne. 7

1615 im thri Oengusa Bodbgnai. 7 im thri Echthigiu Irruis. 7 im secht

a marg. inf. Bricne cecinit Ailid Ailill amra triath/ gadaim tre ech9 asa iath./ domorched cul comlúth marc/ as ferr sagod ro ort íath./ Cóeca colg fochi/-d a dun/10 7 fúan dian funchi run./ calb Domnand fotaili fi/ \n r( )M cos tudcAamar mur./ Ailed mac Domnaill Dail/imp«- Irruis12 Do( )13 baig./ in saeglond doc^r 1110 lose/ in rose fri irgala a( )1 .u H

1 This column and ils verso (22a), in ras. H, is attached to col. a, from which it had been cut off. It contains 42 lines against 34 of col. a. A blank space has been left indenting 11. 40-42. Along the lower margin H has written the above stanzas, partly illegible, and now out of alignment. - o Fats. 3 sic, influenced by Find. 4 do Fries., tnark over o a stain. 5 agoiti Fiics. 6 dóo Facs. " 1 corr. from b. 8 natA Facs. 9 t/itch Facs. l" ~u Fats, for a dún. n Meg., read rig.

'•2 irraid Facs. Vi read Domnand. u a barely legible, read ail.

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mBresléniu Ai 7 im coícait nDomnall. Ar bátár tinoltai na Gamanraidi oc Ailill 7 each óen do Domnandchaib ro ti«c báig leis batar oca | i 22a n-oenmaigin fo bithin rofitir conos tairsed longas \J\ad 7 Ail/// 7 Medb cona socraiti d'iarraid Fergusa. ar ba fora foesam boi Fergus. Basi sin in tres láechaicmi Herend a. in Gamanrad a Hirrus Domnand. 1620 7 eland Dédad hi Temair Lóchra. 7 clanna Rudraige i nEmain Macha. La claind Rudraige im rodibdait in da aicme aili. Conderget trá \3\aid eo teglueh Medba 7 KWella leo 7 oirgset a ndún. 7 toberat Flidais leo assin dun. 7 toberat bancuri in duni hi forcomol. 7 doberat leo iarsin do neoch do sétaib 7 maínib baí and. eter ór 7 airget 7 1625 curnu 7 copana 7 baiglenna 7 ena 7 dabcha. 7 doberat a mbai d'etaigib each datha and. 7 toberat a mbai di cethrib and .i. c. lulgach. 7 da .xx. ar .c. do damaib. 7 tricho cet di mincethri olehenae.

Is de sin luid Flidais co Fergus mac Róich a comarli Ailella 7 Medba fo dáig combad furtacht dóib ocon Tána na mbó a Cualngi. 1630 Is desin no geibed Flidais each sechtmad láa di feraib Herend do bothorud dia thoscid ocon Táin. Ba sé sin búar Flidais. Is de sin luid Flidais la Fergus dochom a chrichi bunaid co ngab rigi blogi do Ultaib .i. Mag Murthemni cosinni baí i lláim Con Culaind m«'c Sual/az'/ra. Ba marb iarom Flidais iartain oc Traig Bali. 7 nibá ferdi 1635 trebad Fergusa on. Ar ba sisi no frithailed Fergus im each tincur bá hadlaic do. Is and atbath Fergus iartain hi crich Connacht iar n-écaib a mná .i. iar tíchtain dó do fis seel co Ailill 7 Meidb. ar do irgartigud a menman 7 do breith táircthe cruid o Ail/// 7 o Meidb. luidi siar co Cruachain. conid tiar dind fecht sin fúair a bás t;ia ét1 1640 Ailella. conid Táin bó Flidais a seel sin anuas.^3

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[Immram curaig1 ]\Iail Dúin inso. tri b\\a.d?ia 7 uii. mis issed boi for merogod issind ócian.

BAi fer amra di Eoganacht Ninussaa .i. Ailill Ochair Aga a ainm. Trénmílid side 7 láechthigerna a thúathi 7 a ceneóil féin. Maccaillech banairchinnech cilli caillech ro chomraicseom f/iía. Bai mac sainemail etorro dib linaib. i. Mael Duin mac Ailella esside. Iss e cruth2iarsaluid a chompertsom 7 a gein Maili Duin. fechtas dollnid ri Eóganachta for tiri hi crich 7 hi cendathaig n-aile 7 Ailill Ochair 22b3 Agai] I ina choemtecht. scorsit 7 gabsit dúnad hi sleib and.

1651 Boi cell chaillech hi comfocus don tsleib sin. Medón aidchi iarom o ro an each do imtecht is dúnud luid Ailill don chill. Is é tráth son dodeochaid in chaillech do béim chluic do íarmérgi. Gabais Ailill a láim 7 dostascar 7 dogéni

1655 a coblige. Asbert in banscál fris ni segda ar cor ol si amser chomperta damsa inso ol si. Can do chenel 7 cia th'ainm ol si. Asbert in láech Ailill Ochir Aga mo ainmse ol se di Eoganacht Ninussa.b Luid iarom in rí día chrich iar n-inriud 7 giallai do. 7 Ailill dano lais. Gair far richtain do Ailill

1660 día thúaith na n-ortatár dibercaig lóingse. Loscit Dubclúain fair.

Tofuisim a mbanscál mac cind .ix. mis 7 dobert ainm fair Máel Duin eszV/e. Bretha in rrurc iar sin fóchlith cúa bancbarait .i. co rigain ind rig. 7 altsom la sudi 7 asbert bá si a máthair.

1665 Rod n-alt iarom óenmumme éseom 7 tri m*zc ind rig i n-óenchliab 7 for áenchích 7 for áenchúd. Alaind di a delbsom 7 is infech- tain má ro boi hi colaind nech bed chomalaind dó.

Asais iarom combu óclách combu thúalaing airbzrt gascid. Bá mór dawca áine 7 a uallchas 7 a chluichechaire. Bá forggaine

1670 for each a cluiche eter imarchor liathraite 7 rith 7 leim 7 cur liac 7 imrim ech. Bá leis trá búaid cech cluchi dib sin. Laa n-óen

a .i. Eoganacht na nArancl [H]. b .i. a Túathmumain [H]

1 i subscr. ; under y, the mark of 'separation, pc. 2 two letters erased be/ote iar. 3 Hand M.

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and ro fomidigestár alaile ócláech amsach friss co n-epert la recht 7 feirg. Tussu ol se nád fess can eland ná cen^l duit 7 nicon fes mátair ná hathaír do giallud forni in cech óenchluchi cid for tir cid for usci cid for fidchill cotrísam fris. Sochtais Máel Dúin 167$ iarom ar doruménair cosin combá mac dond rig hé. 7 don rígáin dia m?i7ume. Asbert iarom fria m?/;//mi ni praindigiubsa 7 ni ib ni co n-erbara frim ol se mo máthair 7 m'athair. Inge ol si cid notai do íarmóracht indí sin. ná tabair dot menmain briathra na n-óclách ndiumsach. Messe do máthair ol si. Ni fulliu sere a 1680 mmac la doine in tire andas do sercso limsa. Doecmaic am sin. 7 arai fessa dam mo th//xtidi féin.

Dolluid a mummi leis iarom conda tarat i llaim a máthar| ]l co téigtís far funiud gmie issin n-insi. No lomraitis 23a ianw/ na hubla 7 nos ithitis. Tiagam ar Máel Dúin isin n-insi 1685- ní hansu dún oldás dona hénaib. Luid fer dib do déicsin na hinsi 7 dogair side a chéli chucai i tir. Te in talam fúa cossaib- som fó bíth bátir tentidi ind anmannai 7 notheigtis in tálmain úasaib. Tobertatár bee dini hublaib leó a cétlá nos ithitis inna curuch. In tan bá solus in matan dollotár ind eóin ónd insi for 1690' snám isa mmuir. Lasodain tócaibtís ind anmannai thentidi a cenna asa fochluib 7 no ittis na hubla co funed ngraie. In tan adcuirtis inna fochloi no théigtís ind eóin dara n-essi do ithi na n-ubull. Dolluid da.no Máel Dúin cona mu'mUr'] tecmallsat anba dina hublaib in n-aidchi sin. Cumma aranggairtis gortai 7 ittaid 1695 dib na hubla. Iss^/anr linsait a curach dina hublaib am a l bá mellach leó. 7 lotair for muir afridisi.

.xi.3 In tan iarom arrochiúirtár na ubla hisin 7 bá mór a ngorta 7 a n-itu. 7 in tan bátir lána a mbeóil 7 a sróna di bréntaid in mara. Atchiat insi nárbu mór 7 dun indi 7 múr gel 1700' ard im sodain am^/ bad du áel chombruithiu dognethe. t ama/ bed óenchloch calca uile. Máradícsa ón muir acht nád roched néolu. Oebéla ro boí in dún. Tige snechtaidi márgela immá mmúr. A llotár is tech bá moam dib nicon facatár nech and acht catt bee boí forsind lár oc cluchiu forsna cetheóraib úaitnib 1705- lecdaib bátar and. No linged di cech úaitniu for araili. Dofécai biucán na firu 7 nin tairmesc dia chluchiu. Co n-accatár iarsin teóra sretha isind raigid in taige immá cuaird ónd ursaind di-

leaf missing. \ x. 2 sic, something om.

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arali. sreth and chetumus di bretnasaib óir 7 argit 7 a cosa isind

1710 fraigid. 7 sreth di muntorcaib óir 7 argit mar chirclu dabcha cech ae. in tres sreth di claidbib móraib co n-imdornaib óir 7airgit. Lána inna himda di cholcthib gelaib 7 di tlachtaib etrochtaib. Dam bruthe da.710 7 tinne forsind lár 7 lestra mára co ndeglind inmesca. In dúnni forrácbad so ol Máel Duin frisin cat.

1715 Dosnécacha talmaidiu 7 gabais cluche arísi. Atgeóin iarom Mácl Dúin ba1 doib forruis^ in praind. Prainsit iarom 7 ibsit 7

23b con|toilset. Dobertatár díurad ind lenna isna paitti. 7 doco- sechtatár diúrad in biid. In tan asbertsat iarom imthecht asbert a thris2 comalta Maili Duin in bérsa lemm múince dinaib

1720 muincibse. Nithó ol j\Jáel Dúin ni cen chomet atá a tech. Dobert cammai co rrici lár ind lis. Dolluid in cat ina ndiaid 7 lebling trit anW saigit tentidi 7 loiscthi corabu lúathred. 7 luid arisi co rrabi fora úaitni. Ro áilgenaig iarom Máel Duin cona bn'athraib in cat. 7 sudigestár in muince ina inad 7 glanais a

1725 luathred di lár ind lis 7 fochairt i n-alt in maro. Lotár iarom inna curach a mmoltais 7 a nn-adamraigtis in Comdid.

.xii.3 Matan moch tres laí iarsin atchiat insi n-aili 7 sonnach umaide tara medón ros rand in n-insi i ndé. 7 atchiat tréta mora di chairib inti .i. trét dub fri sonnach8 adiu. 7 tret gel fri sonnach

I730denall. 7 co n-accatár fer már oc eterglc* 11a cáerech. An focherded cairig find tar sonnach de síu cosna duba bá dub fó chetóir. A ndocured dano cairz^nduib tarsin sonnach ille bá find fóchétóir. Bátir immecalsom oc aicsin indni sin. \sed as maith ol Máel Dúin cuirem dá bunsaig isin n-insi. día cóemchlót

1735 dath conclóechbabamni5 día tiasam indi. Fochartatár \axom bunsaig co rrúsc6 dub isa leth i mbátár na finna 7 finnais fó chétóir. Fochartatár dano bunsaig snaisi gil issa leth i mbátár na duba 7 bá dub fó chetóir. Ní sechbaid ol Máel Dúin ná dechammár isin n-insi. bes níbád ferr ol7 ndathni oldáti na

1740 bunsacha. Tollotár for cúlu ónd insi la himeclai.

.xiii.3 Tres lou iarsinda«<? rathaigsit araili insi máir lethain 7 trét mucc n-álaind indi. gegnaitsom banb bee dib asrous iarom a brith dia doud co tuidchetar uli imbi. Fannoiset 7 nam bertatár

1 shaft of b lost in rent. - sic. 3 in marg. 4 sic, for etergleud. 5 sic, for conclóechbamni. ^ over c mark of aspiration faint, as if expunged. 7 sic, read ar, Y ; scribe distracted by oldáti following. 8 ionnach Foes., but mere spot.

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inna curach cucu. Atchiat úadib iar sin slíab már isind insi 7 imráidset techt día déicsin na hindse ass. A llotár iarom Diúrán 1745 Leccerd 7 German | do ascnam in tslébi arrecat abaind letain 24a nádbo domain ara cind. Tummis German irlund a gai issin n-abaind 7 immándíbdai dó fóchétóir ama/ bid tene nod loscad 7 ní lotár ní bad sire. Co n-accatar and da.no frisin n-abaind anall daumu mora máela ina ligu 7 fer mór inna sudiu occaib. Bi 1750 German iar sudiu crand fria sciath do bupthad na ndam. Cid día mbupthai na báethlaegu ol in t-áegaire már hisin. Cairm hi tat a mmaithre na lloegsa ol Germane. Atát frisa sliab ucut ol se anall. Tollotár afrísi coa céli 7 adfíadar scéla doib. Dollotár ass iar<?;//. 1755

.xiiii.1 Fúaratár insi nirbu chían iar sin 7 mulend már grainne indi. 7 mulleóir már brúichnech grainne and. immafoacht dó cía mulend so. ní ccr ám ol se ní nách eolach íarmifóich ní nách aithgenaidsi ol se. nátho ol seatsom. Leth n-etha for tire ám ol se is sunda melair. nách ní beres cesacht de isin muilind sa 1760 conmekf. La sodain atchiat na heriu tromma diármidi for echaib 7 doinib don mulind. 7 úad úano afrisi. acht ani doberthe úad is síar noberthe. Imchomarctár atheruch cia ainm in mulind se mu\e?id Inbir tre Cenand ar mul/eoz'r. Nodasénsat iar sin ó airdiu croiche Crist íarsinní o'tchúalatár 7 ó'tchoncatár 1765 na huli sea. Lotár for intech inna curach.

xu1 A llotár da;/c ond insi sin in vs\v\ind fúaratár insi máir 7 sochaide mór di dainib indi. hit é duba eter churpu 7 étach. Cennaithi imma cenna 7 ní chumsantais di chui. Dofuit di crandchor dondala comaltai Maili Duin dul isin n-insi. A lluid- 1770 side cusna doíni robátár oc coí. Bá c?<i///thach fríu fóchétóir 7 gabais coí leó. Foíte días día thabairt ass 7 ní n-athgénatár eter a célib | fecsit cadesne for coí. ba hand asbert MaelDuin tét 24b cethrar úaib ol se co n-armaib 7 tucaid na firu ar écin 7 ná décid in talmain nach in n-aér 7 tabrid {or n-étaige immó bar sróna 7 1775 immó bar mbeolu 7 ná súgid aér in tire j3 gataid íor sella do for feraib fodeisne. Dogníth samlaid anísin. Luid in cethrar 7 dobertatár led in díis n-aili ar écin. A n-immácomraicthe ced atchoncatár4 isin tír. asbertís nicon fetammárám ol seatsom. acht a n-atchondcamár dorigénsam. Táncatár iarom co hellam iar mo sin ond insi.

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xui.9 Recait iar sin insi n-aird n-aili imbá rabatár cethri sonnaig. nod randsat hi cethair. sonnach di or chetumus. alale di argut. in tress sonnach di humu 7 in cethrazwmad di glain. Rig

1785 isin chethra7//mad rind10, rígna i n-alaili. óclácha i n-alaili. ingena isind aili. Tolluid ingen ara cend 7 dosnderaid hi tir 7 dobert bíad dóib. fri cáise ro samlaisetarsom 7 secip bias bá mellach la nech fogebed fair. 7 dális dóib a cilurn bic co comtalsatar mesci tri laa 7 teóra aidchi. ro mboi ind ingen oca timthirecht in tucht

1790 sa. A ndofochtraiset isin tres1 bá inna curuch for muir bátár. Nicon facatar nách dú a n-insi nách a n-ingin. ráisit ass iarom.

xuii.3 Fogaibset insi n-aili iar sin nárbu mór 7 dun indi. Dorus umaide fair 7 ágai umaidi and. Drochet glainidi arin dorus. An\a£ no théigtís súas forin drochet dofuittitis sis for cúlu. La

1795 sodain atchiat banscáil asin dun 7 cilor[w]d2 inna láim. Tócbaid clár nglainidi a híchtur in drochit. 7 linais cilornd asin tiprait boí fón drochat. 7 luid afrísi isa ndún. Táet ferthigis fri Máel Dúin ol Germane. Máel Dúin ón ém ol sisi la dúnad in dorais tara héissi. rWtais iarsudiu inna hágu umaidi 7 a llin n-umaide

1800 ro boi foraib. 7 in fogur \z.xom dorigénsat bá ceól meldach n-áilgen son. La sodain fochairt inna cotlud co matain ara bárach. A ndofochtraiset con-accatar3 in mbanscáil cetna asin dún 7 a cilornd inna láim 7 línaid fón chlár chétna. Iíige táet ferthaigis fri Máel Dúin ol German. Amra bríge ol si Mae( )4

1805 la dúnad ind lis tara hessi. Fosnálaigsom a ( )5 cétna co

ara bárach. Tri láa 7 téora aidchi dóib fond rían sain. Isin

chetrawmad6 lou \zxom dolluid in banscál a ndoch«#&. alain( )7|

25as [brat gel impe 7 buinne óir immá moing. mong orda íuir\'\. dá máelán

argit imma cossa gelchorcrai. bretnas argit co zwbrephnib óir inna brut

1810 7 léne srebnaide sita fria gelchnes. mochen duit a Mail Duin ol si 7 ainmnigestár each fer fó leith cona anmaim diles fein. Is cían o tá hi fis 7 hi forus for tíchtain sund ol si.

Dobeir lei iarom hi tech mór boí hi comfocus don muir. 7 tocaib a curach hi tír co n-accatar iarom ara cind isin tig dérgud do Máel

1815 Duin a óenur 7 dérgud each triir dia muintir. dobert biad doib i n-óenchissa cosmail do chássi nó tháth. ataig cuit each trir. each bias

» .i. i n-oen\esiur [H]

1 sic, supply ló YBL • n-stroke om. :i tax faintly legible, <>m. Facs. ; mem- brane fractured. * the margin of the last seven lines broken off, carrying with it portion of the text ; on Facs., read Mael Dúin. 5 read ceol Y. 6 m-stroke om. Facs. 7 read alaind em táncus and Y. *this leaf (25-26) Interpol, by H. 9 bet. cols. 10 sic.

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adcobrad each issed fogébed fair, no thimthirted dano do Mael Dulu ior leth. Linais dano cilarnd fón clár chetna 7 dális doib sel each thrir lee. atgeoin dano in tan ba leór leo. anais do dail dóib. Ben chomadas do Máel Dm'n in ben so ior each dia muintir. Luidsi iarom cona 1820 henchiss 7 cona cilurnd. asbertatar a muintir fri Mael Dúin in n-eberam fria dús in fáefed lat. Cid gatas uaib ol seseom ci atberaid fria. Ticsi ara barach. asbertatar fria in dingnesiu caratrad fri Máel Dum 7 in fáefe lais 7 cid 11a hanai hi fos innocht. Asbertsi na hathgeóin 7 na fit?> cá rét peccad. Luid iarom úadib dia tig 7 tic 1825 ara barach in tráth cetna cona t^imthirecht dóib. 7 o roptar mescai 7 roptar sáthig rádit na briathra cetna friasi. I mbarach thra ol si dobérthar athesc dúib dindísin. Luid iarom dia tig 7 contuletsom fora ndergodaib. ama/ ro dúscsetsom bá ina curach bátar for carraic 7 ní accatár in n-inis i in dún t in ben i in magen i mbátar riam. 1830

( )iii8 Amal dolotar on magin sin co cualatar anairtúaid gáir móir 7 lex ama/bid oc cetol salm no bethe and. Ind adaig sin 7 a llá ara barach co nónai dóib oc imram co festais cia gáir no cia lex rochúalatar achiat1 insi n-áird slíabdai lán d'énaib dubaib 7 odraib 7 alathaib oc núall 7 oc labra mór. I835

( )x9 Imraiset biucán ond insi sin co fuaratar insi n-aile narbu mór. Craind imdai inti 7 eóin imdai foraib 7 co n-ac( )tar iar sin fer isind indsi 7 a folt ba hetach dó íarfaigset dó iarom cúich he 7 can a cend. Do 3( )raib Herend damsa ol se. dodeochad im ailithri 4( )uruch biuc 7 dlugis mo churach fóm ama/ 5( )dechad biucan ó thír. doludsa 1840 do thír arise 6( )e 7 dobiur fót dom thír fom chossaib 7 frissocbus 7( )formuir. Ro fothaigestar in Comdiu damsa isin ma|gin se in fot 25b sain ol se 7 dobm- Dia traig cacha bliadna fora lethet. o sin co se 7 crand cacha bliadna do ás and. Ind eóin atchithisi da7io isna crannaib ol se anmand moclainnesea 7 mo chenióil10 etfrmna 7 firu até sút oc ernaide 1845 lai brátha Lethbairgen 7 ordu eisc 7 lind in topair dorat Dia dam. domfic sin each dia ol se tria thimthirecht aingel. trath nona dano dosnicseom uile lethbairgen 7 ordo eisc cech oenfir dib sút 7 each óenmná. lind in topair amal as lór la each o roptar lána a teora aidchi oigidechta celebraiset 7 asbertsom friu rosesaidsi uli ol se do for tir 1850 acht óenfer.

xx.11 Fogabat isin tres lo iar sin insi n-aili 7 múr orda impe 7 lár gel amal chluim. atchiat dano fer inti 7 issed ba hetach do findfad a chuirp fodessin. imchomaircsetar dó iarom cia sasad o mbered bith atá ém ol se sund topor isind insi se. I n-aine 7 hi cetain medg t 1855

1 sic, for atchiat. - The outer rim of the last seven lines has broken away ; the missing letters can be restored from YBL. Read co n-accatar. a feraib. 4 read i curuch. = dodechad. 6 ol se. 7 fair. 8 xuiii. Foes. '■> xix. Facs.

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usee doberar ass. I ndomnachaib iiii 7 hi felib mártir degassa doberar ass. Mad hi feil apstal im 7 Mairi 7 Eoin Bab/ais/ is coirm 7 fin doberar ass 7 i ssoUamnaib dano. Im nonai iarom dosnanic on Chomdid doib uli lethbairgen cech fir 7 ordu eisc 7 ibsit a ndoethain

1860 dind lind dobreth doib asin tiprait inna hinsi 7 focheird hi súan cotolta on trathsin cus arna barach. O ro fersat tri aidchi aigidechta forfor- congair in clerech form imtecht 7 lotar iarom ass for imtecht 7 celebraiset dó iar tain.

xxi.5 A mbatár iarom ciana for imluad forsnatonnaib atconnarcatar

1865 fota uadib insi. 7 ama/ ro scuchsat co focus di. co cualatar fogur na ngoband oc tuarcain brotha forsind inneoin co n-ortaib amc/ tnarcain trir i cethrair. in tan iarom lotar hi comfocus co cualatar in fer oc imcomarc diarailiu in failet hi focus ol se to ar araile cia son ar fer aile asberitsi do tuidecht and. Meic beca atchiat hi lothur bic anall-

1870 út (orse. O rochúala Máel Duin aní sin atbertatar inna gobaind asbei'r tecam for cúlu ol se 7 na himpam in curach acht bid a erais reme arná- ro airiget teched dún. Imráiset iarom 7 a erais resin curach. Iarfaigis aris in fer cetna bui isin cerdchai. indat facsi don purt indossa ol se. Atát inna tost ol in dercthaid sech ni thecal ille ni thiagat innond.

1875 Nirbo chian iar sin coroiarfaig don's cid dogniat indossa ol se. is doich lemsa ol in fegthaid. is for teched tiagait is sia lim attát indossa6 on phurt olda o chianaib. Dothaet in goba andsaide assain cherdchai

26a 7 bruth | romor isin tenchoir inna laim 7 focheird in mbruth sain i ndegaid in curaig hisin muir coro fich in muir uile acht nis rochtsom

1880 ar rotheichset fo ner1 bag co dian deinmtach2 3isin n-ocian mór3 immach.

xxii.s Imráset iar sin conos tarla i mmuir ba cosmail fri glain nglais buí día glaine corbo réill in grian 7 in gainem in mara ti it 7 nocon faccatar biastai na hanmannai and eter na carrce acht in grian glan 7

1885 a ngainem glas batár ré mor dind ló oc imram in mara sin 7 ba mór a etrochta 7 a alii.

.xxiii.5 Focheirdat ass iar sein hi mmuir n-aill cosmail fri nél 7 andar leoseom nís fáelsad féin nach in curach co n-accatar iar sain fón muir fóthib annís dúine c«?«tachta 7 tír alaind 7 atchiat anmanna mór

1890 n-úathmar bíastaide hi crund and 7 táin do almaiw4 7 indilib immon crand imma cúaird 7 fer cona arm hi farrad in chraind co sciath 7 gai 7 claidiub. arna/ atconnaircsede in n-anmanna mór út boí isin crund téit ass for teced fo chetóir. sínis in t -anmanna a brágit úad asin chrund 7 furmid a chend i ndruim in daim ba mó dond almai 7 srengais lais

a .i. loim [H] gl. repeated in marg. by a recent hand.

1 sic, read nertaib YBL. 2 sic, read deinmnetach. 3'3 in ras. 4 = almaib : almuib Y. 3 inmarg. 6 indosso Facs.

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isin crand 7 nos ithend fo chétóir fri/^a brathad sula. Techit ass 1895 fochétoir ind innile 7 in búachaill. 7 ó'tchonnaic Máel Dúin sin cona muintir nosgeib imecla móir 7 ómon ar bá dóich léo ní roistís taris cen totim trít sís ara thanaidecht ama/ chiaich. rosagat iarom thairis iar mórgábud.

xxiiii.2 Fúaratar iar sin insi n-aile1 7 atraacht a mmuir impi súas co 1900 ndernai alle dímora impe imá cúaird. amal ro arigsetar daine in tíri sin eatsom atasfoprat ic egmig impu 7 atberat att ésim on att esim ón fot a n-a|nali. Atchoncatar iarom daíne imdai 7 alma3 mora do indilib 7 26b grage ech 7 treóit chaerech imda3. Boí iarom banscál oca ndíburgud- som anís co cnoib móraib co tairistis forsna tonnaib thúas occosom ro 1905 theclaimsí,/soin mór dina cnoib sin 7 dofucsat leo. Dollotarsom ond insi forcúlu 7 ansat na hegme la sodain. Cairm hi tát indossa ol in duine ticced fón n-egem día n-éis. Dolotar ass for cether[«]d4 aile dib. nidat é amlaid ar cethernd aile. Is fris as chosmail dano aní sin am«/ bad nech día mbeth hi tarngire leosom do dilgend a tíri 7 dia n-innarba 1910 asa tír.

xxu.9 Gabsatin n-insi aile hi tárfás dóib rét n-ingnad .i. omuargaib sruth mór a tracht na hinsi súas co téged ama/ túaig nime tarsin n-insi uli co ndiburned isin tracht n-aile na hinsi dond leith aile di 7 tictisseom foí annís cen fliuchad 7 no gantaiseom5 écne mora ass anuas. 1915 7 dofutitis écne mora dermara asin tsruth anúas for talmain. na hinsi sis comba lan ind inis uli dia mbréntaid. ár ní rabi nech 6 tairs&/ a teclamad ara n-imad. O espartain aidchi domnaig co hanteirt día lúain ni ngluasii/ in sruth sain, acht no thairissfi/ ina thost inna muir imon n-insi imma cuairt. immainait dóib iarom anba móir dona hécnib 1920 7 línsait a curach dóib6 7 lotar ond insi sin forculu forsin n-ocian beos.

xxui.° Imrais<?/ iar sin co fúaratar colomain móir n-airgdidi. Cethri slessa aicce i mboi 7sesbeim in churaig fri cech slis. co mbátár ocht sesbéimend don churuch a timchell uli 7 ni rabi óenfot do talmain 1925 imme acht in t-ocian anforcnedach 7 ni accatarsom cinnas boi this a hícht?*r i a huacht«r túas fora hairde. Boí lín argdide assa húachtor co fota úad immach 7 dolluid in curach fo séol trena mocoll ind lin sin. 7 dobert Diúran beim do faebur a gae tar mocoll ind lin. Na mandair in in8 lin ar Máel Dúin ar is opred10 morfer ani atchiam. ar 1930 molad anma Dé ol Diuran is airi dogniusa so corop mote chretir

1 blot covering 1 and portion of \, e. - in marg. 3 rent here, only portion of a. left. * n-stroke om. 5 seems like o conve