Yellow Book of Lecan
The Yellow Book of Lecan ( Irish Leabhar Buidhe Lecain ) is a medieval Irish manuscript that was written by the early 15th century at the latest. The name is derived from Lecan Castle , where the book was written, now just a ruin in the west of County Sligo . It is kept in Trinity College, Dublin and must not be confused with Leabhar Mór Leacain ("The Great Book of Lecan").
content
The manuscript contains 344 columns of text, the first 289 of which were written by 1391 and the remainder by 1401. The language is Middle Irish.
The book includes almost the entire Ulster cycle , along with a piece-wise version of the Táin Bó Cúailnge , which is a collection of two or more previous versions. The book also contains two stories from a trilogy, namely Fled Dúin na nGéd ("The Feast of Dún na nGéd") and Cath Maige Rátha ("The Battle of Mag Ráth") - the third part, Buile Suibne (" Suibne's madness") ), was not recorded until later - furthermore Immram Curaig Maíle Dúin ("The journey of the boat from Máel Dúin"), some legends from the historical or royal cycle and a story about the life of St. Patrick , told by Fintan .
history
Edward Lhuyd received the book from two sources: From Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh in March 1700 in Park, An Spidéal ; or from Dáthí Óg Ó Dubhda of Bunnyconnellan , County Sligo , in the same year. Ó Flaithbheartaigh and Ó Dubhda probably received it from Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh , whose family wrote and kept the book. Lhuyd combined seventeen manuscripts into a single work and gave it the title: The Yellow Book of Lecan .
Some of the manuscripts were written by Nollaig Ó Muraíle between 1398 and 1417 .
See also
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- Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, Edward J. Gwynn: Catalog of the Irish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Hodges Figgis et al., Dublin 1921, pp. 94-110, Available from the Internet Archive .
- Thomas Kingsmill Abbott: Catalog of the Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College. Hodges, Figgis et al., Dublin et al. 1900, pp. 328-337 (reprint: Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1980, ISBN 3-487-06985-7 ).
- Tomás Ó Concheanainn: A personal reference by Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh. In: Celticia. 17/18, 1985/86, ISSN 0069-1399 , p. 34.
- Tomás Ó Concheanainn: The manuscript tradition of two Middle Irish Leinster tales. In: Celtica. 17/18, 1985/86, pp. 13-33.
- Tomás Ó Concheanainn: The YBL fragment of Táin Bó Flidais . In: Celtica. 13, 1980, pp. 56-57.
- Nollaig Ó Muraíle: The Celebrated Antiquary. Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c. 1600–1671). His Lineage, Life and Learning. To Sagart, Maynooth 1996, ISBN 1-87068-453-2 . Pp. 16 and 23 ( Maynooth Monographs 6).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jone's Celtic Encyclopedia ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
