Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10, formerly Betham 145, is a

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– Irish

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MS 23 N 10 is a late sixteenth-century Irish manuscript currently housed in the Library of the

Royal Irish Academy The Royal Irish Academy (RIA; ), based in Dublin, is an academic body that promotes study in the natural sciences, arts, literature, and social sciences. It is Ireland's premier List of Irish learned societies, learned society and one of its le ...

, Dublin. It was formerly in the possession of Sir William Betham (1779–1853). The manuscript is highly valuable for its compilation of medieval Irish literature, copied in 1575 at Ballycumin,

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. The responsible scribes were Aodh, Dubhthach, and Torna, three scholars of the

Ó Maolconaire Ó Maolchonaire, sometimes Ó Maoil Chonaire, sometimes Ó Mhaoil Chonaire, Ó Maolconaire, Uí Mhaoil Chonaire etc., was the surname of a family of professional poets and historians in medieval Ireland. Traditionally it would have been spelled wi ...

(anglicised: O'Mulconry), a learned family also known for compiling Egerton 1782 (

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) in 1517.R. I. Best, ''MS. 23 N 10'', pp. vi-viii; ''The Oxford companion to Irish literature''. 445-6

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"Manuscript Source Index 23 N 10 - Royal Irish Academy"
''Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature''. School of Celtic Studies,

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"CODECS Manuscript Catalogue 23 N 10 (967) Royal Irish Academy, Dublin"
''Collaborative Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies''. A. G. van Hamel Foundation for Celtic Studies: Netherlands. *CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
Encoded manuscript G301033
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Encoded manuscript G100044
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Encoded manuscript G301032
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