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46. The name Ua Duinnshle'bhe is a mistake for Mac
Duinnshleibhe, the form which appears in one of Core O
Cadhla's notes, as we shall see later. See also O'Grady :
Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts y 257, 177 ; Gwynn : Catalogue
of Irish Manuscripts in Trinity College^ index.
47. The scribe commenced this sentence before finishing
the preceding, as tuig riot comes between fen and gan above,
with marks indicating the right place for the phrase. He next
wrote nachy but continued the sentence as if he had written
guroby which word I have exchanged for nach in accordance
with the sense.
48. In passing from one column to the next, the scribe
omitted some such words as tuigidh gur^ or cuimhnighidh gur.
He also wrote a superfluous " 7 " after the phrase ending with
ainfhioSy thinking he had only just penned the similar phrase
ending with dermad. The meaning of the whole is plain from
the next sentence. He puts down faults of penmanship to haste
or abbreviation, and faults of text to external distractions.
49. The words do shliocht are written in the margin.
50. The scribe has already told us that the third Particle
was written after later parts of the book. See the Donore-
Pollardstown family described above. It is interesting to note
that the writer follows the unreformed or Old Style of dating.
October 30, according to the New Style, occurred on the
previous Tuesday week.
51. I correct the name here in accordance with the note
on the text.
52. A common cause of complaint with the majority of the
scribes was the external circumstances of discomfort or dis-
turbance under which they were often obliged to execute their
work. That is what is alluded to here. The presence of numerous
contractions is considered a blemish on the calligraphy, but
textual errors of omission or other kinds are not due to a desire
to cut the work short.
5 3 . This reminds one of the story of Daniel O'Connell and
the English Times.
54. Quoted in Eusebius Ecclesiastical History^ book v,
chap. 20.
151
Duinnshleibhe, the form which appears in one of Core O
Cadhla's notes, as we shall see later. See also O'Grady :
Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts y 257, 177 ; Gwynn : Catalogue
of Irish Manuscripts in Trinity College^ index.
47. The scribe commenced this sentence before finishing
the preceding, as tuig riot comes between fen and gan above,
with marks indicating the right place for the phrase. He next
wrote nachy but continued the sentence as if he had written
guroby which word I have exchanged for nach in accordance
with the sense.
48. In passing from one column to the next, the scribe
omitted some such words as tuigidh gur^ or cuimhnighidh gur.
He also wrote a superfluous " 7 " after the phrase ending with
ainfhioSy thinking he had only just penned the similar phrase
ending with dermad. The meaning of the whole is plain from
the next sentence. He puts down faults of penmanship to haste
or abbreviation, and faults of text to external distractions.
49. The words do shliocht are written in the margin.
50. The scribe has already told us that the third Particle
was written after later parts of the book. See the Donore-
Pollardstown family described above. It is interesting to note
that the writer follows the unreformed or Old Style of dating.
October 30, according to the New Style, occurred on the
previous Tuesday week.
51. I correct the name here in accordance with the note
on the text.
52. A common cause of complaint with the majority of the
scribes was the external circumstances of discomfort or dis-
turbance under which they were often obliged to execute their
work. That is what is alluded to here. The presence of numerous
contractions is considered a blemish on the calligraphy, but
textual errors of omission or other kinds are not due to a desire
to cut the work short.
5 3 . This reminds one of the story of Daniel O'Connell and
the English Times.
54. Quoted in Eusebius Ecclesiastical History^ book v,
chap. 20.
151
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Description | Items from a collection of 170 volumes relating to Gaelic matters. Mainly philological works in the Celtic and some non-Celtic languages. Some books extensively annotated by Angus Matheson, the first Professor of Celtic at Glasgow University. |
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