Miscellanea Historica Hibernica
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Miscellanea Historica Hibernica, aka MS G1, a manuscript miscellany, miniature vellum commonplace book.
Compiled by Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin during the years 1579 - 1584. It is described on the front endpaper as Miscellanea Historica Hibernica in a later hand. Ó Duibhgeannáin was a resident of Cloonybrien, County Roscommon.
The Miscellanea contains an Irish rendering of an extract from a Latin tract found in Roger Bacon's 13th century verson of Secretum Secretorum on physiognomy.
Paul Walsh suggested that he was a son of Fer Caogad mac Ferghal Ó Duibhgeannáin, who died at Cloonybried in 1581.
[edit] Sources
- Irish Medieval Learning, by Fr. Paul Walsh, 1918, pp.18-19.
- Rudimenta Physionomiae, by Gearóid mac Niocaill, in Celtica vi (1963), pp.271-77.
- A world of wonders:marvels and prodigies in the diocese of Elphin, 1588, pp.134-54, in Stories from Gaelic Ireland:Microhistories from the sixteenth-centry Irish annals, by Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2003,
