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MS. Rawl. B. 514

Summary Catalogue no.: 11861

Contents

1.
Life of St Colum Cille

Compiled for Maghnus Ó Domhnaill

Language(s): Irish
2.
Bardic poetry
Language(s): Irish

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good miniature (coloured drawing). Text composed in 1532 at the castle of Port na dTrí Námhad, Lifford, County Donegal. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1288, pl. CXVIII)

fol. iii verso

  • Type miniature
  • Subject St Columba with mitre and crosier, under arch decorated with foliage.

History

Origin: 16th century, middle ; Irish

Provenance and Acquisition

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ...viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum...complectens, Quarto Catalogues V, 5 fascicles, 1862–1900). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 204
Quarto Catalogue, Cols. 733–4

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Brian Ó Cuiv, Catalogue of Irish Language Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford College Libraries, 2 vols (Dublin, 2001–3), I.261–74

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-10-31: Toby Burrows/Mapping Manuscript MigrationsProvenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/mapping-manuscript-migrations/oxford-tei-updates/blob/master/update_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.