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In folio, on toned paper.— Price £8 8s. 
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- 
rnents — not ecclesiastical — of ancient Ireland ; now for the first time published, 
crom the original in the Library of the Eoyal Irish Academy, with account of the 
nanuscript, description of its contents, index, and fac-similes in colours. 
Jn Imperial folio, on toned paper. — Price £4 4s. ; or £2 2s. per Part. 
'I Parts I. and II. ; or in One Vol., half calf 
LEABHAE BREAC-^the Speckled Book"— otherwise styled The Great 
Book of Dun Doighre " : a collection of pieces in Irish and Latin, tran- 
icribed towards the close of the fourteenth century ; ' ' the oldest and best Irish 
ITS. relating to Church History now preserved." — (6r. Petrie.) Now first pub- 
ished, 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. 
rHE BOOK OF LEINSTER, sometime called The Book of ^ ' aLENDALOUOH " : 
a collection of pieces in the Irish Language, compiled in part about the 
I aiddle of the twelfth century. From the original MS. in Trinity College, Dublin, with 
atroduction, analysis of contents, and index, by Robert Atkinson, M.A., LL.D., 
*rofessor of Sanskrit and Comparative Grammar in the University of Dublin, Secre- 
ary of Council, Royal Irish Academy. 
The Book of Leinster is one of the most important of the fragments of Irish 
iterature that have come down to us. In addition to copies of the native prose his- 
oric accounts of the Tain Bo Cualnge, the Borama, &c., it contains a large fragment 
f an early prose translation of the Historia de Excidio Troiae of Dares Phrygius ; 
great number of the poems and prose introductions of the Dindsenchas or legendary 
ccount of the origin of the names of places in Ireland ; very many historic poems, 
1 which the legendary and traditional accounts of the early history of the country 
re preserved ; Irish genealogies and hagiologies ; and a great number of interesting 
Dories, illustrative of the manners and customs, the modes of thought, and the 
bate of culture, &c., of the people of Ireland just about the period of the Anglo- 
[orman Invasion. 
In Imperial folio, reproduced by Photo- lithography. — Price £5 5s 
'riHE BOOK OF BALLYMOTE : a collection of pieces in the Irish Language, 
JL dating from the end of the fourteenth century; now published in S»hoto- 
ithograiihy from the original Manuscript in the Library of the Royal Irish 
-cademy. With Introduction, Analysis of Contents, and Index, by Robert 
-TKiNSON, 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 
ad to the Antiquary. The original portion consists of — Genealogical Lists ; 
jstories and Legends ; a fragment of the Brehon Laws ; a copy of the Dind- 
hnchas; Treatises on Grammatical Topics, &c. The other portion contains trans- 
|.tions from Latin originals : the Destruction of Troy, the Wandering of Ulysses, 
le Story of the Mneid, and the Life of Alexander the Great. 
