Egerton MS 88 is a late sixteenth-century Irish manuscript, now housed in the

British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the British ...

Egerton Collection The Egerton Collection is a collection of historical manuscripts held in the British Library. The core of the collection comprises 67 manuscripts bequeathed to the British Museum in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater, along with ...

, London. It is the work of members of the

O'Davoren The O'Davoren ( ga, Ó Duibhdábhoireann) family were a scholarly clan of Corcomroe, Thomond (modern-day County Clare), Ireland active since medieval times. Famed for their sponsorship of schools and knowledge of history and Early Irish law, th ...

s (Irish: Ó Duibhdábhoireann), a distinguished family of lawyers in Corcomroe,

Co. Clare County Clare ( ga, Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Southern Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council is the local authority. The county had a population of 118,817 ...

, and was compiled between 1564 and 1569 under the supervision of Domhnall Ó Duibhdábhoireann. The document is an important collection of medieval Irish legal texts,

literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...

, grammatical works and legal glossaries.

References

*Welch, Robert. ''Oxford Companion to Irish Literature''. Oxford, 1996. 420.

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Contents of Egerton 88
Clare Library. Irish manuscripts 16th-century manuscripts Irish texts Early Irish literature Irish law Egerton collection 1560s works 1560s in Ireland {{BritishLibrary-stub