Leabhar na h-uidhri:
a collection of pieces in prose and verse, in the Irish language,
comp. and transcribed about A.D. 1100, by Moelmuiri Mac Ceileachair: now for the first time pub. from the original in the library of the Royal Irish academy, with an account of the manuscript, a description of its contents, and an index.

Description

Related Names

O'Curry, Eugene, 1796-1862.
Gilbert, John Thomas, Sir, 1829-1898, editor.
MacCeileachair, Moelmuiri, -1106, supposed compiler.
Royal Irish Academy

Language(s)

Irish ; Irish ; English

Published

Dublin, Royal Irish academy house, 1870.

Subjects

Manuscripts, Irish > Manuscripts, Irish / Facsimiles

Note

"Corrigenda" slip inserted after p. 134.
"Page 55 to p. 82 are occupied with a ... copy of part of the Táin bó Cuailnge."--Pref.
"The oldest volume now known entirely in the Irish language ... regarded as the chief surviving native literary monument, not ecclesiastical, of ancient Ireland ... here printed from an exact lithograph of the original by Joseph O'Longan ... The description ... of the manuscript is based upon ... work of O'Curry."--Pref., signed J. T. Gilbert.
"The edition has been limited to two hundred copies."--Pref.

Physical Description

xxv p., 1 l., 134, 8 p. 2 facsim. in colors. 35 cm.

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