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 Briti ...
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 w ...
, 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, t ...
s (Irish: Ó Duibhdábhoireann), a distinguished family of lawyers in Corcomroe,
Co. Clare, 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 inclu ...
, grammatical works and legal glossaries.
References
*Welch, Robert. ''Oxford Companion to Irish Literature''. Oxford, 1996. 420.
External links
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
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