PUBLICATIONS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 
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IRISH MANUSCRIPTS—FAC-SIMILES, 
[Editions limited to 200 copies. | 
| bee accurate study and critical investigation of the ancient literary and his- 
toric monuments of Ireland have hitherto been impeded by the absence of 
fac-similes of the oldest and most important Irish Manuscripts. 
With a view of supplying this acknowledged want, and of placing beyond risk 
of destruction the contents of Manuscripts, the Academy has undertaken the pub- 
lication of carefully collated lithographic or photo-lithographie copies of the oldest 
Trish texts still extant. 
In folio, on toned paper.—Price £3 28s. 
EABHAR NA H-UIDHRI: a collection of pieces in prose and verse, in the 
Trish language, transcribed about A.D. 1100; the oldest volume now known 
entirely in the Irish language, and one of the chief surviving native literary monu- 
ments—not ecclesiastical—of ancient Ireland ; now for the first time published, 
from the original in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, with account of the 
manuscript, description of its contents, index, and fac-similes in colours. 
/n imperial folio, on toned paper—Price £4 4s.; or £2 2s. per Part. Parts /. and II. ; 
or in One Volume, half calf. 
EABHAR BREAC—the ‘Speckled Book”—otherwise styled ‘‘ The Great 
Book of Dun Doighre”: a collection of pieces in Ivish and Latin, tran- 
scribed towards the close of the fourteenth century; ‘‘the oldest and best Irish 
MS. relating to Church History now preserved.”—(G. Petrie.) Now first pub- 
Hshed, from the original MS. in the Academy’s Library. 
In imperial folio, on toned paper, with a Photograph of a page of the original. 
Price £6 6s. 
HE BOOK OF LEINSTER, sometime called The Book of ‘‘ GLENDALOUGH”: 
a collection of pieces in the Ivish Language, compiled in part about the 
middle of the twelfth century. From the original MS. in Trinity College, Dublin, with 
introduction, analysis of contents, and index, by Roperr Arxrnson, M.A., LL.D., 
Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Grammar in the University of Dublin, Secre- 
tary of Council, Royal Irish Academy. 
The Book of Leinster is one of the most important of the fragments of Irish 
literature that have come down to us. In addition to copies of the native prose his- 
toric accounts of the Tain Bé Cualnge, the Bérama, &c., it contains a large fragment 
of an early prose translation of the Historia de Excidio Troiae of Dares Phrygius ; 
a great number of the poems and prose introductions of the Dindsenchas or legendary 
account of the origin of the names of places in Ireland; very many historic poems, 
in which the legendary and traditional accounts of the early history of the country 
‘are preserved; Irish genealogies and hagiologies ; and a great number of interesting 
stories, illustrative of the manners and customs, the modes of thought, and the 
state of culture, &c., of the people of Ireland just about the period of the Anglo- 
Norman Inyasion. 
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