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Ballymote, Book of

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Ballymote, Book of, a large manuscript anthology of genealogical, legal, historical, and literary material compiled c.1383–7 (with two main assistant scribes) by Maghnus O Duibhgeannáin, a hereditary seanchaidh, or historian, from a family with branches in Leitrim and Roscommon. Unlike the Book of Uí Mhaine, which was written for a patron, Bishop (later Archbishop) Muircheartach Ó Ceallaigh, the Book of Ballymote was apparently intended as a source‐book for the compiler's professional needs. It contains texts from 11th‐ and 12th‐century manuscripts, including the Book of Leinster, together with some borrowings from European literature, a tract on the ogam alphabet with many innovative variations, retold sagas, and aristocratic genealogies updated to the 1390s. Handwriting and illuminations recall 12th‐century decorated manuscripts.

Katharine Simms

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Book of Ballymote

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Book of Ballymote. Irish name, Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta. Compiled c.1390 in the Sligo town of Ballymote. Although much of the material in this Book is historical, it also includes important literary and imaginative items, such as the key to the ogham alphabet. There are bardic tracts on metre and grammar, stories of the birth of Cormac, and tales of the loathly hag transformed to a beautiful woman, as well as the Irish version of the Aeneid. The manuscript is housed today at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Edited and published by Robert Atkinson for the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin, 1887).

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