Leabhar breac, the Speckled book, otherwise styled Leabhar mór dúna doighre, the Great book of dún doighre, a collection of pieces in Irish and Latin, comp. from ancient sources about the close of the fourteenth century: now for the first time published from the original manuscript in the library of the Royal Irish academy ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferguson, Samuel, 1810-1886, editor.

O'Curry, Eugene, 1796-1862.

O'Looney, Brian, 1828-1901.

Royal Irish Academy.

Standardized Title:

Leabhar breac.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish literature.

Manuscripts, Irish--Facsimiles.

Manuscripts, Irish.

Saints.

Ireland.

Saints--Ireland.

Genre:

Facsimiles.

Physical Description:

xx, 41 pages, 2 leaves, facsimile (280 that is 284 pages) 15 pages : 2 facsimile in colors. ; 46 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Royal Irish academy house, 1876.

Notes:

The following leaves have not been included in collation as given above: temporary t.-p., 2 half-titles, and leaf of corrigenda issued with pt. 1, 1872; temporary t.-p. and half-title issued with pt. 2, 1876.

L.C. copy retains the temporary matter and is bound, as issued, in 2 vols., with general t.-p. at end of v.2.

Extra pages 238a-238d, inserted in the facsimile.

"The impression has been limited to two hundred copies."--Pref.

A lithographic facsimile, produced under the supervision of Mr. Gilbert, printed from a transcript by Joseph O'Longan. The description of the ms., by Prof. O'Looney, is based mainly on the account compiled about 1843 by Eugene O'Curry; but two letters, here for the first time made known, help to complete the history of the book. cf. Pref. (signed: Samuel Ferguson).

"Chiefly ... religious and devotional tracts. A compilation from various older books ... It is uncertain who the compiler was, but ... we may safely assume Leabhar breac to be the work of some one of the family of Mac Egan."--Pref.

OCLC:

5218922