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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 487

  • Irish
  • s. xv + s. xvii composite manuscript
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum + paper
Composite Irish manuscript consisting of three vellum sections of the 15th century and paper leaves of 17th-century date. The vellum sections contain two lengthy narratives of the Fenian tradition, Cath Finntrága and Acallam na senórach, as well as important witnesses to early Irish legal texts.
Identifiers
Location
Collection: Rawlinson manuscripts
Shelfmark
Rawlinson B 487
Type
manuscript miscellanies
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Irish
Date
s. xv + s. xvii
15th and 17th centuries.(1)n. 1 Brian Ó Cuív, Catalogue of Irish MSS in the Bodleian (2001): 134.
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.
composite manuscript
Material
vellum + paper
Distinct units
f. i*-vi*
Oxford, Bodleian Library,…  ff. i-vi

6 paper leaves, unnumbered.

ff. 1–11
Oxford, Bodleian Library,…  ff. 1-11 [s. xv]

Cath Finntrága and poem. Vellum.

ff. 12–52
Oxford, Bodleian Library,…  ff. 12-52 [s. xv]

Acallam na senórach. Vellum.

ff. 53–67
Oxford, Bodleian Library,…  ff. 53-67 [s. xv]

Early Irish law (Heptads, Bretha comaithchesa). Vellum.

ff. 68-80
Oxford, Bodleian Library,…  ff. 68-80

Paper leaves.

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Locus

While it is not a reality yet, CODECS seeks consistency in formatting references to locations of texts and other items of interest in manuscripts. Our preferences may be best explained with some examples:

  • f. 23ra.34: meaning folio 23 recto, first column, line 34
  • f. 96vb.m: meaning folio 96, verso, second column, middle of the page (s = top, m = middle, i = bottom)
    • Note that marg. = marginalia, while m = middle.
  • p. 67b.23: meaning page 67, second column, line 23
Irish manuscripts

Sources

Notes

1.
Brian Ó Cuív, Catalogue of Irish MSS in the Bodleian (2001): 134.

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

Digitisation wanted
[dipl. ed.] Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 1, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  
comments: numbered pp. 1–337; diplomatic edition of legal material three manuscripts: the Bodleian manuscripts Rawlinson B 487 and Rawlinson B 506, and TCD 1433 (E 3. 5).
1–80 Diplomatic edition of the legal material on ff. 53a–67a

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Cuív, Brian, Catalogue of Irish language manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford college libraries. Part 1: Descriptions, Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, DIAS, 2001.
134–140
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
May 2011, last updated: December 2022
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