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Detailed record for Egerton 1782
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| Title |
Miscellany, including more than sixty tales, hymns, poems and other literature |
| Origin |
Ireland |
| Date |
between 1516 and 1518 |
| Language |
Irish |
| Decoration |
1 large interlace initial in brown with animal heads (f. 88). Initials in brown, some with highlighting or penwork decoration in red and/or green, or with penwork decoration. Small initials in red and/or green with penwork decoration (ff. 17-35). Line-fillers and decoration in brown ink (f. 46). |
| Dimensions in mm |
230 x 150 (205 x 145) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 125 ( + unfoliated paper and parchment leaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Dark green diced leather with gold tooling. |
| Provenance |
Written in 1517-1518 by scribes of the O'Mulconry family: contains an obituary and eulogy of Art buidhe Mac Murchadha Caomhanach (d. 1517) (ff. 3-4), suggesting that the scribes were still writing it for him when he died (see Flower 1926).
The O'Byrne family of county Wicklow, in the 17th century: added obits of that family (see Flower 1926).
Inscription 'Bernard Caomhanach 1716' (f. 76).
William Monck Mason: the Monck Mason sale, 31 March 1858, bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1853-1875 (London: British Museum, 1877), no. Eg.1782.
Standish Hayes O'Grady and Robin Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1926-1953), II, Robin Flower (1926), pp. 259-60.
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 68.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 602.
Martin McNamara, The Bible and the Apocrypha in the Early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200), Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, Research on the Inheritance of the Early and Medieval Christianity, 66 (Turnhout, Brepols, 2015), p. 67. |
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