Leabhar Oiris

Leabhar Oiris, Gaelic-Irish manuscript and chronicle.

Overview

An Leabhar Oiris was created by one, or more, author or authors, who drew on material in the Irish annals relating to the years 976 to 1028. It is believed to have been written in an Irish monastic scriptorium, after 976 and by 1500.

External links

• http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100029/index.html

References

Manuscript sources

• Royal Irish Academy, MS 756 pp. 194–207
• Royal Irish Academy, MS 485, pp. 240–75
• Trinity College Library, MS 1287, pp. 59–85
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1280, folio 64
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1296, pp. 214–32
• British Library, Egerton 105, folio 296
• Royal Irish Academy, MS 689, p. 93
• Royal Irish Academy, MS 258
• Royal Irish Academy, MS 973, section 3, p. 50
• Trinity College Library, MS 1289
• Trinity College Library, MS 1329, p. 153

Editions

• R.I. Best, The Leabhar Oiris, Ériu 1 (1904) 74–112.
• Eoin MacNeill, Cath Cluan Tairbh, Gaelic Journal 7 (1896) 8–11, 41–44, 55–57; and Cian Mac Maolmhuaidh, ibid. 67–71.

Other

• Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville, Essai d'un catalogue de la littérature épique d'Irlande (Paris, 1883) 60
• Colm Ó Lochlainn, Poets on the battle of Clontarf, Éigse 3 (1941–42) 208–18, 4 (1943–44) 33–47.
• R. I. Best, The Leabhar Oiris, in Ériu, volume 1 (1904) pages 74–112]]