Research Catalog

Title

The ancient books of Ireland / Michael Slavin.

Author

Slavin, Michael

Publication

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.

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Details

Description

x, 198 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

"The Ancient Books of Ireland features illustrated excerpts from sixteen of the finest examples of early Irish literature. Many of the original manuscripts are housed at Trinity College Dublin, the National Museum of Ireland, and the British Museum and have never been brought into the public domain. Michael Slavin describes the stories and legends in these books and also traces how these 1,000-year-old manuscripts have survived Ireland's tumultuous history."--Jacket.

Subject

• Civilization, Celtic > Sources
• Manuscripts, Medieval > Ireland
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Celtic
• Ireland > History > Sources

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-198).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lebor na hUidre--Book of the Dun Cow (1090-1106) -- Book of Leinster or Lebor na Nuachongbala (1152-1161) -- Book of Ballymote (1400), Great Book of Lecan (1416), Yellow Book of Lecan (1391) and Book of Ui Mhaine (O'Kellys) (1394) -- The Book of Lismore (1480) -- The Book of Armagh (AD807) -- The Cathach (c. AD 600) -- The Book of Durrow (c. AD 675) and the Book of Kells (c. AD 790) -- Book of the Brehon Laws -- The Annals of Inisfallen and The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill -- Annals of the Four Masters and Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn.

ISBN

0773530096

OCLC

• 60567013
• SCSB-11306353

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library