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'''Egerton MS 1782''' is the index title of an early sixteenth-century Irish [[vellum]] manuscript housed in the [[Egerton Collection]] of the [[British Library]], London.
==Overview==
The compilation dates from ''c''. 1517 and is the work of several scribes of the [[Ó Maolconaire]] (anglicised: O'Mulconry), a learned family of lawyers and historians, known also for compiling [[Royal Irish Academy]] MS [[23 N 10]] later in the century.
In spite of its relatively late date (compared to, for instance, the [[Book of Leinster]], [[Lebor na hUidre]] or the [[Yellow Book of Lecan]]), it is one of the most important documents for the study of [[early Irish literature]]. Some texts, such as ''Aislinge Oenguso'', are preserved nowhere else.
==The Texts of Egerton MS 1782==
Here follow some of the texts found in the manuscript:
*Necrology for Art Buidhe mac Domhnaill Riabhaigh, f. 3-4.
*''[[Amra|Amra Choluim Chille]]'' (incomplete), f. 9b.
*''[[Baile Bricín]]''. f. 17a
*''Forfess Fer Falgae'', f. 19r<sup>a-b</sup>.
*''Verba Scáthaige'', f. 19v<sup>a-b</sup>.
*''[[Echtra Condla|Echtra Chondla]]'', f. 19v<sup>b</sup>-20r<sup>b</sup>
*''Seilg Sléibhe na mBan'' "The Chase of Sliabh na mBan (Slievenaman)", f. 20 b 1.
*''Tesmolta Cormaic 7 Aided Finn'', f. 24r<sup>b</sup>-25r<sup>b</sup>
*''Airem muintire Finn'', f. 25r<sup>b</sup>-v<sup>b</sup>
*''Imthechta Tuaithe Luchra ocus Aided Fergusa'' / ''[[Fergus mac Léti|Echtra Fhergusa maic Léti]]'', f. 30v<sup>a</sup>-34v<sup>a</sup>.
*''Aided Diarmata meic Fergusa Cherrbeóil'', f. 37r<sup>a</sup>-40v<sup>b</sup>
*Miscellaneous prose material, f. 40b<sup>2</sup>, 41a<sup>1</sup>, including reference to the battle of Ard Rathain between [[Néide mac Onchú]] and [[Eidhean mac Cléireach|Eidhean mac Cléirigh]].<ref name="ucc.ie">''[http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G105019 Verschiedenes aus Egerton 1782]'', Corpus of Electronic Texts.</ref>
*"Trí túatha fuilet i nhÉrinn" (prose), f. 44a.<ref name="ucc.ie"/>
*"Eol dam aided, erctha gním" (poem), f. 44a<sup>1</sup>.<ref>''[https://celt.ucc.ie/published/G100051/ Der Tod der sieben Maine]'', Corpus of Electronic Texts</ref>
*"Cormac and Ciarnat" (prose introduction and poem), f. 44 b.<ref>Kuno Meyer (ed. and tr.).  "Stories and songs from Irish MSS." ''Otia Merseiana'' II. 75-105.</ref>
*''Suidigud Tige Midchuarta'', f. 45v.
*''Fulacht na [[Morrígan|Morrígna]]'', f. 46a.<ref>See ''The Celtic Review'' 8 (1905): 74-6.</ref>
*''The Colloquy between Fintan and the Hawk of Achill'', f. 47a.<sup>1</sup>-49b<sup>1</sup>.<ref>[http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/G109001 The Colloquy between Fintan and the Hawk of Achill], Corpus of Electronic Texts. For "Kaland Enair for domnach", ascrbed to Fintan, f. 48 a, see Kuno Meyer (ed. and tr.). ''The Instructions of King Cormac mac Airt''. 1909. 55.</ref>
*[[Dúan in chóicat cest]], poem, f. 49v-50v.
*[[Cinaed húa hArtacáin]], poem, f. 52a.
*[[Cinaed húa hArtacáin]], poem, f. 53b.
*Eochaid Eolach ua Céirín, ''Apraid a éolchu Elga'', f. 53v<sup>a</sup>-54r<sup>b</sup>.<ref>''[https://celt.ucc.ie/published/G503000/ Apraid a éolchu Elga]'', Corpus of Electronic Texts</ref>
*Two Middle Irish poems, f. 56a.<ref>Kuno Meyer (ed. and tr.), "Two Middle-Irish Poems." Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie (1896): 112-3.</ref>
*Egerton Annals: ''Mionannala'', f. 56-64.
*''Cath Cairn Chonaill'', f. 59v-61r
*''[[Longas mac nUislenn|Longes mac n-Uislenn]] / Longes mac Uisnig'', f. 67r-69v.
*''Tochmarc Ferbe'' (including episode 'Togail Duin Geirg'), f. 69v-70r.
*''[[Aislinge Oenguso]]'', f. 70r-71v
*''Echtra Nera / Táin Bé Aingen'', f. 71v-73v.
*''De Chophur in dá Muccida'', f. 73v-76v.
*''[[Táin Bó Regamna]]'', f. 76v-77v.
*''Compert Chonchobair'' (version 2), f. 77v-78v.
*''[[Compert Con Culainn|Compert Chon Culainn]]'' / ''Feis Tige Becfoltaig'' (two versions), f. 78v-80r.
*''Táin Bó Dartada'', f. 80r-81r.
*''[[Táin Bó Regamon|Táin Bó Regamain]]'', f. 81r-82r.
*''[[Táin Bó Flidhais|Táin Bó Flidais]]'', f. 82r-82v.
*''[[Fráech|Táin Bó Fraích]]'', f. 82v-87v.
*''Do Faillsigud Tána Bó Cúailnge'', f. 87v.
*''[[Táin Bó Cúailnge]]'' (Recension II), f. 88r-105v, with a gap at f. 98.
*''[[Tochmarc Étaine]]'' (middle part, introducing ''Togail Bruidne Da Derga''), f. 106r<sup>a</sup>-108v<sup>b</sup>
*''[[Togail Bruidne Dá Derga]]'', f. 108v<sup>b</sup>-123v<sup>b</sup>.
*''[[The Voyage of Máel Dúin|Imram Curraig Maíle Dúin]]'' (fragments from the prose text), f. 124r-125v.
*''Eachtra an Mhadra Mhaeoil'' "The Adventures of the Crop-eared Dog."<ref>[https://archive.org/details/eachtramhadramha10brituoft Available from the Internet Archive.]</ref>
*''Seacht n-Urgarta Rígh Temruch'' "Seven prohibitions of the king of Tara"
==Notes==
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==Sources==
*Flower, Robin (ed.). ''Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Library, formerly the British Museum''. 2 vols: vol 2. London, 1926. 259-98.
==External links==
*[https://www.ucc.ie/celt/MS-OMIT/index.html MS OMIT]
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