Book of the Dun Cow
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Book of the Dun Cow. Irish name,
Lebor (or
Leabhar)
na hUidre; the Irish name is preferred by many learned commentators, who sometimes employ the abbreviation
LU. The oldest manuscript written entirely in Irish, compiled before 1106 at the great monastic centre of
Clonmacnoise on the Shannon by, among others, a scribe named Máel Muire mac Céileachair. The codex contains texts of the
Mythological Cycle and the
Ulster Cycle, including a version of the epic
Táin Bó Cuailnge. A vignette recorded later in a separate text explains the name of the codex.
Fergus mac Róigh is described as being summoned from his grave to recite the
Táin to St
Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, who copied it down on the hide of a dark cow.
The manuscript disappeared after the Cromwellian conquest and reappeared in a bookshop in 1837; it is housed today in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. It has been published twice, first in facsimile, ed. J. T. Gilbert (Dublin, 1870), and second as edited by R. I. Best and Osborn Bergin (Dublin, 1929). Walter Wangerin's popular novel
Book of the Dun Cow (New York, 1978) is unrelated to material in the codex.
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