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MS 1317 .2.15B'' is an autograph manuscript by

Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (), also known as Dubhaltach Óg mac Giolla Íosa Mór mac Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, Duald Mac Firbis, Dudly Ferbisie, and Dualdus Firbissius ( fl. 1643 – January 1671) was an Irish scribe, translator, histo ...

(murdered 1671). The most succinct description of the manuscript is by Irish historian, William O'Sullivan:

t is T, or t, is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''tee'' (pronounced ), plural ''tees''. It is d ...
''"the most personal of Dubhaltach's surviving manuscripts, including scribblings as well as texts written by himself and his grandfather, Dubhaltach Mor. Unhappily, because written on paper, hard wear has many items in a fragmentary condition."''

* two copies of the longer version of

Cormac's Glossary ''Sanas Cormaic'' (; or ''Sanas Chormaic'', Irish for "Cormac's narrative"), also known as ''Cormac's Glossary'', is an early Irish glossary containing etymologies and explanations of over 1,400 Irish words, many of which are difficult or outda ...

; the first writer by and for Donnchad ... helped by Baothghalach and Flann (pp. 13–40); the second by Dubhaltach's grandfather with help from Conair (mac Muiris) O Maolchonaire, but with additions by Dubhaltach himself * part of the old Irish glossary miscalled O'Mulcontry's (pp. 79–104) * ''Duíl Laithne'', by Dubhaltach * a fragmentary glossary (pp. 41–43) * a copy of

O'Davoren's Glossary O'Davoren's Glossary is an early modern glossary of Old Irish terms, many of which are legal in nature. The glossary is important for its well-preserved quotations from early Irish legal texts (which would otherwise have been lost or preserved on ...

(pp. 45–68) by his grandfather, "a better copy than that in B.L. MS. Eg. 88", at Park,

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, in 1569. This is followed by eighteen pages in Dubhlatach's handwriting, which

''"... has all the appearance of a student's copybook or roughwork book ... Most of the page age 77is covered with all kinds of scribbling, much of it in the nature of ''probationes pennae'' which are difficult to make sence of, or, in many cases, even to read ... it is difficult to make any sence of much of it, and matters are not helped by the employment of some rather unusual tachygrams."''

The ''Sanas Cormac'' covers pages 79 to 103, followed on pages 104 to 106 by a fragment of an

etymological Etymology ( ) is the study of the origin and evolution of words—including their constituent units of sound and meaning—across time. In the 21st century a subfield within linguistics, etymology has become a more rigorously scientific study. ...

tract Tract may refer to: Geography and real estate * Housing tract, an area of land that is subdivided into smaller individual lots * Land lot or tract, a section of land * Census tract, a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census ...

as far as the letter C, then an imperfect copy of the ''Uraicipt'' attributed to Cenn Fáelad mac Aillila on pages 107 to 134. Pages 79 to 126, and 126b to 133, are in the handwriting of Dubhaltach's grandfather, Dubhaltach Mór. Dubhaltach himself added a great many marginal notes in Irish,

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

, and on a few occasions, in

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

, using Greek lettering.

References

* ''The Celebrated Antiquary'',

Nollaig Ó Muraíle Nollaig Ó Muraíle is an Irish scholar. He published an edition of Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh's ''Leabhar na nGenealach'' in 2004. He was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy in 2009. Life and career A native of Knock, County Mayo, Ó Muraíle ...

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, 1996. {{DEFAULTSORT:Trinity College Dublin Ms 1317 17th-century Irish literature 17th-century manuscripts Irish-language manuscripts Library of Trinity College Dublin

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