PUBLICATIONS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



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IRISH MANUSCRIPTS — FAC-SIMILES. 



\_E(litio)is limited to 200 copies.'] 



THE 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 nndertaken the pub- 

 lication of carefully collated lithographic or photo-lithographic copies of the oldest 

 Irish texts still extant. 



//) folio, on ioned paper. — Price £3 3s. 



LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRI : a collection of pieces in prose and verse, in the 

 Irish 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 Academj', with account of the 

 manuscript, description of its contents, index, and fac-similes in colours. 



In imperial folio, on ioned paper — Price £4 4s. ; or £2 2s. per Part. Parts I. and II. ; 

 or in One Volume, half calf. 



-y EABHAR BREAC— the " Speclded Book"— otherwise styled " The Great 

 Jl i Book of Dun Doighre" : a collection of pieces in Irish 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 fii'st pub- 

 lished, 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. 



THE BOOK OF LEINSTER, sometime called The Book of " Glexdalotjgh " : 

 a collection of pieces in the Irish Language, compiled in pai-t about the 

 middle of the twelfth century. From the original MS. in Trinity College, Dublin, with 

 introduction, analysis of contents, and index, by Robert Atki^'son, 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 Bo Cualnge, the Boraina, &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 ; A'ery many historic poems, 

 in which the legendai-y 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 Invasion. 



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