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British Library, MS Egerton 88
Late 16th century Irish manuscript From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Egerton MS 88 is a late sixteenth-century Irish manuscript, now housed in the British Library Egerton Collection, London. It is the work of members of the O'Davorens (Irish: Ó Duibhdábhoireann), a distinguished family of lawyers in Corcomroe, County Clare, and was compiled between 1564 and 1569 under the supervision of Domhnall Ó Duibhdábhoireann.
The document is an important collection of medieval Irish legal texts, literature, grammatical works and legal glossaries. It contains a copy of O'Davoren's Glossary.
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References
- Welch, Robert. Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Oxford, 1996. 420.
External links
- Contents of Egerton 88, Clare Library.
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