ProvenanceSémus Ó Gribín completed the manuscript in March 1696 for Patrick Logan, schoolmaster at Lurgan, County Armagh. Bound in (folios vi-vii) is a letter dated Lurgan, 17th August 1696, from Logan to an unnamed friend, consigning the manuscript to him for scholarly perusal and ultimate delivery to the Advocates Library. It thus became the first of the Advocates’ Library's Gaelic manuscripts. Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
MaterialPaper
BindingsBound in leather; blind-tooling
ScribesÓ Gribín, Sémus
ContributorsLogan Patrick; Wright John Advocate, 1813
Online since2009
RelationRIA MS 24 L 17
RightsCopyright National Library of Scotland; Copyright image source Irish Script on Screen, School of Celtic Studies, DIAS.
DescriptionNLS Adv. MS 33.4.11 is a 17th century Gaelic manuscript containing a copy of Geoffrey Keating's History of Ireland (Foras Feasa ar Éirinn).
ReferencesBernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie: 'Patrick Logan and Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, 1696’, Éigse 32 (2000) 146-152; Sir J. Sinclair, Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic, vol.3, p.572; Keating, Geoffrey. ‘History of Ireland’ (London, 1723). ‘Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn’ (Dublin, 1898), edited by Patrick O’Brien; Mackechnie, John. ‘Catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts in selected libraries in Great Britain and Ireland’ (Boston, 1973), vol. 1, p. 2.
17th cent. Paper. vii + 183 ff. Folio. Scribe:
Sémus Ó Gribín, who also wrote RIA 24 L 17, Keating’s
Eochairagiath an Aifrinn. He completed the manuscript in
March 1696 for Patrick Logan, schoolmaster at Lurgan. Bound in
(ff. vi–vii) is a letter dated Lurgan, 17 August 1696, from Logan to an
unnamed friend, consigning the manuscript to him for scholarly perusal
and ultimate delivery to the Advocates Library: see Bernadette
Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie: 'Patrick Logan and Foras Feasa ar
Éirinn, 1696’, Éigse 32 (2000) 146–152. It thus became the first of
the Advocates’ Gaelic manuscripts. Marginal notes in English (late
17th-cent. hand) occur at f. 156v. A copy of Keating’s History was
described by Donald Mackintosh in 1806 (Sir J. Sinclair, Poems of
Ossian in the original Gaelic, vol. 3, p. 572) as in the possession of
John Wright, Advocate (d. 1813). Bound in leather, tooled blind.
Geoffrey Keating’s History of Ireland Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, is
printed in Irish Texts Society vols. 4, 8, 9 and 15.
f.
1r “Díonbhrollach”.
18r Book 1. 109v, colophon, 21 January 1696.
110r Book 2.
174ri Genealogies. 183r i, colophon, 14 March 1696.
