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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Irish Language in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België

5 KBR MS 4639; Cat. No. 505

Martyrology of Donegal (Short Recension)

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Previous description: J. van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique 7 vols. (Bruxelles 1901-07) I, p. 318.

Index of contents

1r. Title-page worm-eaten with damage to inscription (expanded here with assistance of earlier transcriptions by S. H. Bindon, PRIA, vol. iii (1844), p. 486-7, van den Gheyn, Catalogue I, p. 318, J. H. Todd, & W. Reeves (eds), The Martyrology of Donegal. A calendar of the saints of Ireland translated from the original Irish by the late John O’Donovan (Dublin 1864), p. xii): ‘Martyrologium/ Sanctor[um] Hiber[iae] / colleg[i]t et d[i]ge[s]sit / Mich[ael] [O] C[ler]y / Ord. [S. Francisci] /D[uaci al. uaii] / in Fland[ri]a Ga[ll]i[c]a (al. Ga[ll]i[æ]?) 16[2]9’.

2r . Preface, headed ‘In S[igno(?)] M[a]r[iae(?)].’ Begins Dia ccuiredh áoinnech do thuaith, no decclais insi Éreann machtnadh no iongantas isin leabrán so, cia ro thionnsccain, nó lé ndernadh é an chéduair, no do chuir an suidhiucchadh, ⁊ an tord atá anosa air biodh a fhios (aicce) gurab é an tespucc naomhtha Aongas mac Aenghobhann do chum i ndan i nGaoidhilcc fhileta rochruaidh. Ends f. 3 v. Ní ní ar bith saoghalda ro ghreis, ⁊ ro fhoghluais na haithresin adubhramar do tabairt i monair an saothar so do thabairt chum solais, ⁊ do chor a mbuga & ar an suidhiuccadh ar a ffuil anosa acht do mhéduccadh gloire Dé, naomh na hErenn, an uird da ffuilitt fein ⁊ do thuilledh fochraice ⁊ lóighideachta dia nanmannaibh tre edarguidhe na naomh filet isin liubar. Ar na criochnuccadh i cconveint Dhúin na nGall. 1628. / Brathair Michel O Clerigh. (Ed. and translated, P. Ó Riain, Feastdays of the saints. A history of Irish martyrologies (Bruxelles 2006), 284-85; cf. P. A. Breatnach, ‘An Irish Bollandus: Fr Hugh Ward and the Louvain hagiographical enterprise’, Éigse 31 (1999), 1-30 (13-14).)

4r . Testimonial of Flann Mac Aodhagáin. Begins Flann mac Cairpre Mic Aedhaccain ó bhaile Mheic Aedaccain hi ccontaé Tioprat Árann ag fhiadhnuccadh. Ends a mBaile Mic Aedhagain an cédla do mhi November .1636. Flann Mac Aodhagain.

4v . Testimonial of Conner Mac Brody. Begins Do bhithin go ttainic an Brathair bocht Michel O Clerigh dom ionnsoicchidh (a maille le humhlachta a uachtaráin an tAthair Iosep Euerard Proiuinnsial Uird S. Fr). Ends, ⁊ mar dhearbhadh air sin ataim acc cur mo laimhe air so i cCill Chaoide .íí. Novembris 1636. Conner Mac Brody da ngoirther Mac Bruaideadha.

5r . Approbation of Thomas Fleming, Archbishop of Dublin. Begins Martirologium sanctorum Hiberniae a fratre Michaele Clery laico Ordinis Sancti Francisci de Obervantia historico solertissimo. Ends Actum Kildariae 6 Februarii annno 1636 Fr Thomas Fleming Archiepiscopus Dublinensis Hiberniae Primas.

5v . Approbation of Fr Rochus [Mac Geoghegan], Bishop of Kildare. Begins De hoc libro martyrologii sanctorum Hyberniae quem Frater Michael Clery orinis S. Francisci ad sanctorum gloriam et communem patriae vtilitaem collegit. Ends in quorum fidem hii manu propria subscripsimus datum in loco nostrae mansionis die 8 Jan. anno Domini 1637. Fr Rochus Kildarensis.

6r . [MARTYROLOGY.] Begins Ianuarius / A Kalendis Ianuarii 1 / Dabheoocc Locha Geircc. Arrangement according to month, with headings in majuscule as follows: Ianuarius (ends 16r); 16r m. Februarius; 24vm. Martius; 35v i. Aprilis; 43r m. Maij; 52v m. Iunius; 65r Iulius; f. 72v Augustus; 80v m. September; 91v October; 100 r November -112 r (110 v blank); 112 r m. December. Abbreviated running titles throughout. Ends f. 121v i. Lughna deocain, Finis.

122r . CLÁR NA MARTARLOIGE. Index. Begins Abban mac ua Corbmaic abb 16. Mart. Ends f. 178r m. Uviro airdepscop Atha Cliath .8. Mai.

178v . Note on the death of the Earl of Tyrconnell (Aodh son of Rudhraighe) headed ‘Aois Criost 1642’. Begins O Domhnaill dá ngoirthí iarla Thíre Chonaill .i. Aodh mac Rudhraidhe. Ends f. 179r 7 acht a chur ar cogadh na fairrge do chathughadh re Frangcachaibh. (Ed. P. A. Breatnach, ‘The second Earl of Tyrconnell, †1642’, Éigse 28 (1994-5), 169-71.)

180r . Episode headed ‘Revelatio facta cuidam fratri et fuerunt verba hae quae loquebatur Seraphico S Francisco post impressionem sacrorum stigmatum’. Begins Quidam sanctus frater devotus Ordinis Minorum cum legeret legendam S /Francisci cogitauit in corde suo quae potuerit esse illa verba quae dixit sibi. Ends f. 183 r i. ex speculo Vitae B. Francisci et sociorum eius in octavo folio 97 circa medium libri. (Extracted from Specvlvm Vitæ B. Francisci et sociorvm eivs in duas partes diuisum. In quo ad multorum ædificationem notabilia quædam de ipso Sancto ac sociis iisdem describuntur etc. Opera & studio F. Gvilielmi Spoelberch Ordinis Minorum Regularis Obseruantiae Prouinciae Germaniae Inferioris Definitoris. Antverpiae ex officina Gerardi Wolsschatij, M. DC. XX.)

183v . Ceasair an áith Pompei ⁊ Alasdar mór. 1v (4 lines).

184r . Iomlat na gconnsoine cóir. 3 qq. (12 lines).

184v . - 186v . Blank.