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Piaras Grás Manuscript
Introduction

This paper manuscript is the work of Piaras Grás, a farmer of Cappahayden (par. Killaloe, bar. Shillelogher), near Callan, Co. Kilkenny. Family records show that he died 23 March 1836. He was son of James and Anastacia Grace (died 1 May 1810). His brothers and sisters were as follows …


Avicenna Fragment
Medical
Pádraig Ó Macháin, University College Cork
Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha, School of Celtic Studies
31 August 2018.

15th cent. Vellum, written in double column. Textual analysis suggests that this originally formed the outer bifolium of a gathering. Until August 2018 this bifolium was used as a secure cover for sixteenth-century …


Mac Cruitín Fragment
Mac Cruitín Fragment

18th century. Paper. Fragment of manuscript, in single column, used to form pastedowns for cover of seventeenth-century printed book. Text in the hand of Aodh Buidhe Mac Cruitín (ob. 1755), with several scribal cancellations and corrections.

Signature of Sean Maglodhin on verso of title-page of printed book …


MS Parrthas an Anma
PARRTHAS AN ANMA: AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF LEINSTER PROVENANCE

The manuscript described below is in the ownership of Dr Colm Ó Sé, having been given to him by his father, Dr Liam Ó Sé (†2010). I wish to express my thanks to Dr Ó Sé for permission to catalogue it …