diff --git a/collections/Rawl_B/MS_Rawl_B_503.xml b/collections/Rawl_B/MS_Rawl_B_503.xml index 7ff6c68c43..83635c0831 100644 --- a/collections/Rawl_B/MS_Rawl_B_503.xml +++ b/collections/Rawl_B/MS_Rawl_B_503.xml @@ -7,9 +7,12 @@ MS. Rawl. B. 503 MSS. Rawl. B (Rawlinson B) - - Summary description - Elizabeth Solopova + + Cataloguer + A. G. Watson + + + Encoding Matthew Holford @@ -39,21 +42,56 @@ - The Annals of Inisfallen - Annals written either in the church of Emly or in that of Lismore, continued from the mid 12th century probably at the monastery of Innisfallen. + Annals ('The Annals of Inisfallen') + + Annals in Irish and Latin, now beginning with Abraham, but with two leaves lost at the beginning; ending in 1326 C.E. but with a few marginal additions extending to 1450. Text is missing before fol. 1, after fol. 6, after fol. 36, after fol. 44, and after fol. 50. + The origin of the annals to 1092 is disputed, with scholars suggesting both Emly and Lismore; from 1092 onwards Mac Airt suggested that the annals were continued perhaps at Lismore (to 1130), thereafter further west in Munster, by at least the late thirteenth century at Innisfallen. See D. McCarthy, The Irish Annals: Their Genesis, Evolution and History (Dublin, 2008), 211-16, with references to earlier literature. The somewhat misleading description of the manuscript as 'The Annals of Inisfallen' goes back to its seventeenth-century owner James Ware (see Provenance). + Ed. and tr. Seán Mac Airt, The Annals of Inisfallen (MS. Rawlinson B. 503) (1951): electronic edition CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts, in four sections: (1) text to 433; (2) translation to 433; (3) text from 433; (4) translation from 433 + Ogam script is used on fol. 40va for a Latin proverb, Walther Prov. 19188 (Ó Cuiv, p. 205) Irish and Latin + parchment + i (parchment, conjoint with pastedown) + 57 + i (parchment, conjoint with pastedown) leaves + + c. 245 + 175-80 + + i, 1-58 + After Ó Cuiv's tentative reconstruction (p. 201): 1(10-4) (fols. 1-6: wanting 1-2 before fol. 1 and 9-10 after fol. 6), 2(4) (fols. 7-10), 3(8) (fols. 11-18), 4(2) (fols. 19-20), 5(16) (fols. 21-36), [text lost], 6(three singletons, fols. 37-9), 7(2) (fols. 40-1), 8(three singletons, fols. 42-4), [text lost], 9(2) (fols. 45-6), 10(4) (fols. 47-50), [text lost], 11(seven, perhaps 6+1 with fol. 53 inserted after 2) + + Written space c. + 205-15 + 150 + overall; c. 27-37 lines. + Fols. 1r-11v, 37r-v, 38v-46v (part), 47r-57v: two columns. + Fols. 12r-36v: three columns. + Fol. 38r and 46v (part): one column. + + + Mostly in Irish minuscule with some later entries (notably fols. 55r-57v) in textualis. Scribal stints identified by Mac Airt and Best, as summarized by Ó Cuiv (pp. 202-5, with a full table): + One scribe to fol. 29r col. 3 line 29 (end of 1092) + Twenty-eight contemporary scribes, fols. 29r-44v(b31), covered 1092-1214. + Ten further scribes on fols. 45r-57v, covering 1214-1326. + Further scribes (not distinguished by Ó Cuiv) contributed additions and marginal entries. + - Decoration

Initials with colouring.

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17th-century brown leather on pasteboards, with Sir James Ware's armorial crest in gilt on both covers; rebacked, Bodleian, 19th century.

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Former limp parchment binding, with Sir James Ware's title 'Annales coenobii Inisfallensis' and pressmark ('Vol. XXVI'), preserved as fols. i and 58 and the front and back pastedowns.

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Engraving of 'Hiberna Antiqua' (by Hollar) pasted on to the back pastedown.

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Modern notes by John O'Donovan and R. Twigge (dated 1900) pasted to fol. i recto.

 @@ -62,6 +100,10 @@ Irish + Sir James Ware, 1594–1666 (William O'Sullivan, 'A finding list of Sir James Ware's manuscripts', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature 97C/2 (1997)), libri historici XXVI. + Henry, Earl of Clarendon; pressmark 'Volumen 18.s' on the back pastedown (cf. O'Sullivan, 75-6). + His sale 1709; acquired by James Bryges, Duke of Chandos. + His sale, 1747. Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755 @@ -71,7 +113,10 @@ - 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). + Description adapted from A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), + no. 666, with additional reference to published literature as cited. + + Previously described in 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). Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 203 Quarto Catalogue, Col. 722 Quarto Catalogue, Col. 723 @@ -99,10 +144,6 @@ Printed descriptions: - A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), - no. 666 - (fols. 1-44) - Brian Ó Cuiv, Catalogue of Irish Language Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford College Libraries, 2 vols (Dublin, 2001–3), I.201–7 @@ -111,6 +152,7 @@ + Description revised with reference to Watson and published literature as cited. 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. First online publication.