Leabhar Oiris

Leabhar Oiris pronounced (Irish pronunciation: [l̠ʲəuɾʲ ɛɾʲɪʃ]) is a Gaelic-Irish manuscript and chronicle.

An Leabhar Oiris was created by one, or more, author or authors, who drew on material in the Irish annals relating to the years 976 to 1028. It is believed to have been written in an Irish monastic scriptorium, after 976 and by 1500.

References

Manuscript sources

• Royal Irish Academy, MS 756 pp. 194–207
• Royal Irish Academy, MS 485, pp. 240–75
• Trinity College Library, MS 1287, pp. 59–85
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1280, folio 64
• Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1296, pp. 214–32
• British Library, Egerton 105, folio 296
• Royal Irish Academy, MS 689, p. 93
• Royal Irish Academy, MS 258
• Royal Irish Academy, MS 973, section 3, p. 50
• Trinity College Library, MS 1289
• Trinity College Library, MS 1329, p. 153

Editions

• R. I. Best, "The Leabhar Oiris", Ériu; vol. 1 (1904): 74–112 (includes apparatus &c.)
• Eoin MacNeill, "Cath Cluan Tairbh", Gaelic Journal; 7 (1896): 8–11, 41–44, 55–57; and
• Cian Mac Maolmhuaidh, Gaelic Journal; 7 (1896): 67–71.

Other

• Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville, Essai d'un catalogue de la littérature épique d'Irlande Paris, 1883; p. 60
• Colm Ó Lochlainn, "Poets on the battle of Clontarf", Éigse; 3 (1941–42): 208–18, 4 (1943–44) 33–47.

External links

• G100029; University College Cork