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In folio, on foned 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 Academy, with account of the 
manuscript, description of its contents, index, and fac-similes in colours. 
In Imperial folio, on toned paper.— Price £4 4s. ; or £2 2s. pet Part 
Parts I. and II. ; or in One Vol., half calf 
LEABHAR BREAC— the Speckled Book"— otherwise styled The Great 
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." — (6r. Petrie.) Now first 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 Glendalough" : 
a collection of pieces in the Irish 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 Robert Atkinson, 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 Borama, &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 Invasion. 
In Imperial folio, reproduced by Photo- lithography. — Price £5 5sk 
THE BOOK OF BALLYMOTE : a collection of pieces in the Irish Language, 
dating from the end of the fourteenth century ; now published in l»hoto- 
I lithography from the original Manuscript in the Library of the Royal Irish 
i Academy. With Introduction, Analysis of Contents, and Index, by Robert 
sAtkinson, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology in the 
'University of Dublin ; Secretary of Council, Royal Irish Academy. 
The Book of Ballymote contains numerous articles of interest to the Scholar 
and to the Antiquary. The original portion consists of — Genealogical Lists ; 
Histories and Legends ; a fragment of the Brehon Laws ; a copy of the Dind- 
senchas; Treatises on Grammatical Topics, &c. The other portion contains trans- 
lations from Latin originals : the Destruction of Troy, the Wandering of Ulysses, 
the Story of the ^neid, and the Life of Alexander the Great. 
