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MS 2324-40
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Irish Language in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België

© Pádraig A. Breatnach, 2019

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KBR MS 2324-2340; Cat. no. 3410
Lives of Saints etc.
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17th cent. Paper. Ff. 355 (continuous foliation ‘1-357’ whereby f. 154 follows immediately after f …


MS 2542-43
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Irish Language in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België

© Pádraig A. Breatnach, 2019

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KBR MS 2542-43
Naoimhsheanchas Naomh Inse Fáil ; Bansheanchas ; Historical notes etc.
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17th cent. Paper. Ff ii + 84 (now numbered in pencil), 200 × 158 mm. F …


MS 2569-72
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Irish Language in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België

© Pádraig A. Breatnach, 2019

3
KBR MS 2569-72; Cat. No. 4640
Historical verse; Genealogies; Cogadh Gaedheal re Gallaibh
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Previous description: J. van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la …


MS 4190-4200
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Irish Language in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België

© Pádraig A. Breatnach, 2019

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KBR MS 4190-4200; Cat. No. 3409
Lives of Saints
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17th cent. Paper. Ff. 288. Present continuous foliation is modern, replacing that of scribe which began …


MS 4639
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Irish Language in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België

© Pádraig A. Breatnach, 2019

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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 …


MS 5057-59
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Irish Language in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België

© Pádraig A. Breatnach, 2019

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KBR MS 5057-59
Pious Tracts and Legends; Poems; Verse Scholia from Félire Oengusso
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1r . Printed fragment of memorial of Fr …


MS 5095-96
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Irish Language in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België

© Pádraig A. Breatnach, 2019

7
KBR MS 5095-96; Cat. No. 506
Martyrology of Donegal (Long Recension)
Summary particulars

17th cent. Paper. Ff. i + 106 ff., 210 × 160 mm. (Inside front cover unnumbered …


MS 5100-04
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Irish Language in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België
© Pádraig A. Breatnach, 2019
8
KBR MS 5100-04; Cat. No. 507
Metrical Rules; Martyrologies; Naomhsheanchas naomh Inse Fáil, etc.
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17th cent. Paper. Ff. ii + 218 (continuous foliation in pencil in …


MS 5301-20
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MS 6131-33
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Irish Language in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België

© Pádraig A. Breatnach, 2019

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KBR MS 6131-33
‘Leabhor Inghine Í Dhomhnaill’; Bardic Poems ; Eachtra Chonaill Gulban
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Previous descriptions: K. Meyer, ‘A collection of poems on the O’Donnells …


MS 7658-61
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MS 7672-74

Salmanticensis item 12, 7658-61.

MS descriptions are available as follows:

W. W. Heist, Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae ex codice olim Salmanticensi nunc Bruxellensi (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1965), pp.xiiii-xix.

R. Sharpe, Medieval irish Saints' Lives. An introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae (Oxford 1991), pp. 228-246.


MS 20978-79
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Irish Language in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België

© Pádraig A. Breatnach, 2019

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KBR MS 20978-79
Religious prose (exempla etc.) and verse
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Previous descriptions: B. Ó Cuív, ‘A seventeenth-century Irish manuscript in Brussels’, Éigse 9 (1958-61), 173-80 …