Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G100014

Mac Carthaigh's Book

Author: [unknown]

Background details and bibliographic information

File Description

Funded by University College, Cork and
Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project

2. Second draft, revised and corrected.

Extent of text: 5020 words

Publication

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College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt

(2000) (2009)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: G100014

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Hardcopy copyright lies with the School of Celtic Studies (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies).

Sources

    Manuscript sources
  1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 488, fos. 27, 28.
    Editions
  1. Séamus Ó hInnse (ed.), Miscellaneous Irish Annals (A.D. 1114–1437). Dublin: DIAS, 1947, xix + pp. pls (MS facss.): Fragment 1 (1114–1437) (Mac Carthaigh's book); from MSS NLI G 6 and G 5. Fragments 2 and 3 (1237–1314, 1392–1407), from MS Rawlinson B 488. English translation, indexes. Appendix on the spelling of fragments 1 and 3 throwing light on the pronunciation of the scribes.
    Translations
  1. Séamus Ó hInnse (ed.), Miscellaneous Irish Annals (A.D. 1114–1437). Dublin: DIAS, 1947, xix + 222 pp. pls. (MS facss.): Fragment 1 (1114–1437) (Mac Carthaigh's book); from MSS NLI G 6 and G 5. Fragments 2 and 3 (1237–1314, 1392–1407), from MS Rawlinson B 488. Indexes.
    Literature
  1. Gerard Murphy, in Éigse 6, 1948/52, (pt. 1), pp. 80–82.
  2. John T. Collins: A McCarthy miscellany. In Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 53, 1948, pp. 95–103. Miscellaneous Irish Annals, fragment 1.
  3. Canice Mooney, in Irish Historical Studies 7, 1950/51 (1951), pp. 292–295.
  4. Tomás Ó Fiaich: The contents of 'Mac Carthaigh's book'. In The Irish ecclesiastical record 5th series 74, 1950, pp. 30–39. Miscellaneous Irish Annals, fragment 1.
  5. Brian Ó Cuív, 'Miscellanea, I: An entry in the 'Mac Carthaigh book of annals'. In Éigse 8, 1956/57, pp. 96–98. Ad annum 1117.2.
  6. Gearóid Mac Niocaill, The medieval Irish annals (Dublin 1975), 26–27, 30.
  7. Diarmuid Ó Murchadha, 'A reconsideration of some place-names from Miscellaneous Irish Annals', Ainm 4 (1989–90), 180–193.
  8. Daniel P. Mc Carthy, on his website at http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Dan.McCarthy/chronology/synchronisms/annals-chron.htm offers comprehensive information on two traditions of dating used in the Irish Annals, together with two ancillary articles, 'Chronological synchronisation of the Irish annals', and 'Collation of the Irish regnal canon'.
  9. Daniel P. Mc Carthy, The Irish Annals: their genesis, evolution and history (Dublin 2008).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Miscellaneous Irish Annals (A.D. 1114–1437). Fragment II. Séamus Ó hInnse (ed), First edition [xix + 222 pp. pls. (MS facss.)] Dublin Institute for Advanced StudiesDublin (1947)

Encoding

Project Description

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Sampling Declaration

The present text represents pages 116–140 of the volume, being the years A.D. 1237–1314 in the chronology of the compiler(s). All editorial introduction, translation, notes and indexes have been omitted. Editorial corrigenda are integrated into the electronic edition. Missing text supplied by the editor is tagged sup resp="SOI".

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Correction

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Normalization

The electronic text represents the edited text.

Quotation

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Hyphenation

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Segmentation

div0=the body of annals; div1=an annal (i.e. the annalistic matter gathered under one year); div2=an individual entry in an annal. From div1 and div2, canonical references can be made. All entries are numbered, and zero is reserved for the chronological criteria of each annal. The n attribute of each text in this corpus carries a unique identifying number for the whole text. Page-breaks are marked pb=""; folio breaks are marked mls unit="folio" n="". The title of the text is held as the first head element within each text.

Standard Values

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Interpretation

Personal names including role names and group names (kindreds, lineages, dynasties, peoples etc.) have been tagged. Place names (kingdoms, lordships, churches, monasteries etc.) have not been tagged. Technical terms have been tagged. Content markup is subject to revision.

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Profile Description

Created: By various scribes of the late fifteenth century. Date range: c.1480–1499.

Use of language

Language: [GA] The text is in Early Modern Irish.
Language: [LA] Some words are in Latin.

Revision History