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Detailed record for Egerton 88
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| Title |
Law and grammatical miscellany |
| Origin |
Ireland (Clare) |
| Date |
c. 1564 |
| Language |
Irish |
| Scribe |
Domhnall O Duibhdabhoirenn (Donall O'Davoren) |
| Decoration |
Large initials in brown with penwork decoration, and highlighting in red and/or green (e.g., ff. 26, 34, 44v, 45, 49, 52v). 1 zoomorphic initial in brown with interlace (f. 65). Large initials in brown, some with penwork decoration. Highlighting of letters in brown or green. Marginal drawings in ink of animals (deer?) or faces. Some initials excised. |
| Dimensions in mm |
255 x 170 (215 x 155) in two columns or three (ff. 80-93) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 93 ( + unfoliated parchment and paper flyleaves + an unfoliated paper leaf after ff. 41, 56, 62, 71, 79) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown leather. |
| Provenance |
Written by Domhnall O Duibhdabhoirenn (Donall O'Davoren), who kept a law school in the district of Burren, county Clare: see O'Grady.
Date of 1567 (f. 12v)
James Hardiman: note on the oak box (f. 1).
Eugune Curry bound the loose leaves: note, by Madden (f. 1).
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). |
| Notes |
For a detailed description see O'Grady.
f. i a paper leaf with an affixed paper note, formerly in the oak box in which the manuscript is kept. |
| Select bibliography |
List of Additions Made to the Collections in the British Museum in the Year 1832 (London: British Museum, 1834), p. 12.
Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts 6666-10018; Catalogue of Egerton Manuscripts 1-606 (unpublished catalogue available in the British Library Manuscripts Reading Room), p. 102.
Standish Hayes O'Grady and Robin Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1926-1953), I, Standish Hayes O'Grady, pp. 85-141.
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 70. |
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