ÚinéireachtChríochnaigh Sémus Ó Gribín an lámhscríbhinn i Márta 1696 do Patrick Logan, máistir scoile i Lurgan, Contae Ard Mhacha. Ceangailte (fóilió vi-vii), tá litir dátaithe ag Lurgan, 17 Lúnasa 1696, ó Logan go cara anaithnid, ag bronnadh an lámhscríbhinn air le hiniúchadh a dhéanamh uirthi, roimh í a sheoladh ar aghaidh go dtí Leabharlann na n-Abhcóidí. Mar sin, b'í an chéad lámhscríbhinn Gáidhlig i mbailiúchán Leabharlann na n-Abhcóidí í. Bronnta i 1925 ag Dámh na n-Abhcóidí ar an tír trí Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hAlban.
BunábharPáipéar
CeangailCeangailte le leathair; gréasadh caoch
ScríobhaitheÓ Gribín, Sémus
PátrúinLogan Patrick; Wright John Abhcóide, 1813
Ar líne ó2009
GaolmharRIA LS 24 L 17
CeartaCóipcheart Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hAlban; Iomhá Foinse ag Meamram Páipéar Ríomhaire, Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath.
CuntasLámhscríbhinn Gaeilge ón 17ú haois is ea NLS Adv. MS 33.4.11 ina bhfuil cóip d'Fhoras Feasa ar Éirinn le Seathrún Céitinn.
TagairtíBernadette 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.
