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LS A 35

Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in University College Dublin

A 35

GRAMMAR

17th and 18th cent. Paper. 16 × 10 cms. Two separate fragments bound together in cover like those of A 30 etc. and marked 'A 35, Gramadach' in gilt on spine. (a) 22 pp. with two paginations, l-[22] and 18-[39], in pencil. First and last two leaves reversed. Scribe: Mícheál Mac Cormaic [O.F.M.], 1772 (pp. (2), 16). (b) 16 pp. with two paginations, 1-[16] and 40-[55], in pencil.

(a)

p.

2 . Letter in French to the governor of Forts Royal (?) in the province of Perigord and Angumois signed John Comerford and Macormick. P. 1 blank.

3 . 'Ag so Graimear na Gaoidheilge do reir mar do [cu]ireadh an órdughadh accalaiste (. . .) mBrathar nÉirionnach a Lo(bh)án é a mbliadhuin daois Críost 1641' [or—2?]. Beg. Gach nduine le nar mian Gaoidheilge do leaghadh tugadh aire go dithchiollach do na riaghlaca beage so síos. Foll. (p. [16]) by colophon: 'Ar na sgriobha le Miceal mac Cormuic an 27 la do[n cancelled] September annsa mbliadhuin daois Críost 1772'. Cf. P. Mac Aogáin, Graiméir Ghaeilge na mBráthar Mionúr (Baile Átha Cliath 1968) xxiii-xxv.

[16] m. Prayers: (a) Ár nathair ata ar neamh . . . . (b) p. 17. Dia do bheatha Mhuire . . . . (c) p. 17 m. Creidim a nDia .... Numerous corrections.

[18] .5. 'Na deigh nathanta ann so'. Part of an Irish catechism. Numerous corrections.

19. Blank.

[22 -20 ] (reversed and inverted). 'The Abreviations commonly usd. in the Irish language'. In double columns.

(b)

1 . Fragment of grammar. Beg. acephalous 'An caibidil deighionach dona siolladhuibh'. Do réir mar do níthear oráid dona focluibh. Foll. (p. 1 i) by 'An dara cuid do gramaduigh. An chead chaibidil do codchuibh na horáide'. Breaks off (p. 10 m) with 'An seachtmadh caibidil don nuimhir ~ don chás, et reliqua omitto, ór as mo beanuid siad leis na filidhe iona leamsa etcetera'. Rest of MS blank. Cf. Mac Aogáin, op. cit., xvii etc.