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The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS C vi 1, the Book of Knockninny. The manuscript was compiled in 1718 for Brian Mág Uidhir of Knockninny, Co. Fermanagh. It contains a selection of historical poems and prose texts. You can listen to two Library Lunchtime Lectures about this manuscript at the link!
The @irishexaminer.bsky.social had an article by me about the new edition of Nauigatio St Brendani on the weekend.
3/3✒️CF 32: Scéalta Fiannaíochta
Dhá leabhar nótaí ceangailte le chéile, scribe Murthy Sheehy. Tá Eachtra an Ghiolla Deacair & a Chapuill & Bruighean Caorthuinn le fáil ann, chomh maith le dánta & píosaí eile.
Scríofa 1826–1829-“For my own amusement.”
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2/3 ✒️CF 31: Feis Tighe Chonáin
Leabhar nótaí beag le Murthy Sheehy, ina bhfuil Feis Tighe Chonáin Cinntsleibhe — scéal Fhinn mhic Cumhaill agus na Fianna, le dánta agus píosaí gairide eile.
A small glimpse into 19th-century Irish literary tradition.
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1/3📜✨Nua ar ISOS: Russell Library, Maynooth
Dhá lámhscríbhinn Ghaeilge ón 19ú haois, scríofa ag Murthy Sheehy. Scéalta Fiannaíochta, filíocht, seanchas &traidisiún liteartha. A fascinating glimpse into Irish writing &scribal culture.
Míle buíochas do🙏
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Many folios have been lost over the centuries. There may have been 368 folios in the manuscript in the 15th C and just 157 folios now survive. Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...
Read our latest blog by Halldóra Kristinsdóttir (National and University Library of Iceland). She describes an Icelandic manuscript in the RIA collection, recently added to Handrit.is. Images were provided by our colleagues at @dias-isos.bsky.social. www.ria.ie/blog/iceland...
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for September 2026 is Dublin, TCD MS 1698, containing excerpts from the surgical treatise by Petrus de Argellata, a compilatory text on wounds and remedies for conditions of the head:
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The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS C iii 1, the Annals of Connacht. This manuscript records episodes in the history of Gaelic Ireland from AD 1224 to AD 1544, with one later entry (in different ink) for the year 1562. There are short gaps in the text where a pair of leaves may have been lost.
2/2 📜Chronicon Scotorum joins the AIHS collection on ISOS.
Described in 1980 by Pádraig de Brún and Nessa Ní Shéaghdha, with additional notes from AIHS.
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1/2📜New on ISOS: American Irish Historical Society Chronicon Scotorum, 18th-cent. vellum manuscript copied by Micheál mac Peadair Í. Longáin in 1711. Colophon records the copying in Co. Limerick when Longáin was 18. Delighted to welcome this AIHS collaboration. Thks to Mark Lindenburg, AIHS Curator.
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