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 IRISH GAELIC FACSIMILES OF IRISH MSS. The Royal Irish Academy Series, comprising : Leabhar Na H-Uidhri : A Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, in the Irish Language, transcribed about A.D. uoo. With Account of the Manuscript, Description of its Con- tents, Index, and Facsimiles in colours. ^3, 35. The oldest volume now known entirely in the Irish Language. The Book of Leinster sometime called The Book of " (ilendalough." A Collection of Pieces in the Irish Language, compiled in part about the middle of the twelfth century. With Introduction, Analysis of Contents, and Index. By ROBERT ATKINSON, M.A.,. LL.D. 6, 6s. Leabhar Breac. The "Speckled Book," otherwise styled "The Great Book of Dun Doighre." A Collection of Pieces in Irish and Latin, transcribed towards the close of the fourteenth century. Parts I. and II. in I vol. 4, 45. "The oldest and best Irish MS. relating to Church History now preserved." GEORGE PETRIE. The Book of Ballymote : A Collection of Pieces in the Irish Language, dating from the end of the fourteenth century. With Introduction, Analysis of Contents, and Index. By ROBERT ATKINSON, M.A., LL.D. 5, 53. The Yellow Book of Lecan : A Collection of Pieces (Prose and Verse) in the Irish Language, in part compiled at the end of the fourteenth century. With Introduction, Analysis of Contents, and Index. By ROBERT ATKINSON, LL.D. ^4, 45. portant Irish vellum MSS. is the indispensable basis of any serious Celtic library. At least three-fourths of Irish mediaeval literature is contained in these five MSS., the contents of which would make up about ten volumes of Encyclopaedia Britannica size. The Introduction and very full Analyses of Contents enable the volumes to be used by non-Irish students of mediaeval literature. Only Two Hundred. copies have been struck off, and the remaining stock is a very small one. The Oxford Series. With Introduction by KUNO MEYER. Vol. I. (Rawlinson, H. 502), the oldest Irish MSS. in the Bodleian Library, containing, inter alia: Tigernach's Annals ; the Saltair na Rann ; Brehon Law Tracts, and many poems and stories, tribal histories and genealogies. Subscription Price, ^4, 45. net. % It is intended, if 200 subscribers can be found ready to take up copies of the first volume of the proposed series (Rawl. B. 502), to proceed with facsimiles of Rawl. B. 512, Laud. 610, Rawl. B. 503, and Rawl. B. 514. These contain the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick (one of two known extant copies) ; the Lebar Gabala, or " Book of Conquests"; the Annals of Innisfallen, from the Creation to the year 1319 A.D. ; O'DonnelFs Life of St. Columb-kill, and many interesting legends, poems, and tracts. All these Manuscripts will, like Rawl. B. 502, if undertaken, be reproduced by the collotype process in the exact size of the originals. 5
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