🌲1️⃣6️⃣🎁 16ᵗʰ c. Dublin, Trinity College MS 1337 (H.3.18) This 16ᵗʰ-century manuscript contains a beautiful copy of the tract Lebor Ogaim ‘The Book of Ogam’. Its earliest surviving witness is found in the 14ᵗʰ-century compendium known as ‘Book of Ballymote’ (RIA MS 23 P 12; see our entry for 13 Dec). ᚐ - ThreadSky

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16ᵗʰ c.
Dublin, Trinity College MS 1337 (H.3.18)

This 16ᵗʰ-century manuscript contains a beautiful copy of the tract Lebor Ogaim ‘The Book of Ogam’. Its earliest surviving witness is found in the 14ᵗʰ-century compendium known as ‘Book of Ballymote’ (RIA MS 23 P 12; see our entry for 13 Dec).
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eibhlinniccolla.bsky.social•75 days ago

obsessed with how clean and readable the handwriting is here, some really nice scribal work here

davidstifter.bsky.social•75 days ago

The Lebor Ogaim consists of over a 100 different cryptic devices based on the ogam alphabet. Many of these involve changing the shape of the linear strokes of the usual ogam symbols, the reversal or substitution of the symbols from the normal order; or the arrangement of ogam letters in various…
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davidstifter.bsky.social•75 days ago

…figures, such as concentric circles and squares. The ogam tract is found in a section of TCD MS H.3.18 that was compiled at various locations in the early 1500s by one Máel Íosa, assisted by other scribes.
It's an invaluable medieval miscellany of legal tracts, glossaries, poetry, pseudo-history…
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davidstifter.bsky.social•75 days ago

…and religious and medical material. A descriptive catalogue of this section of H.3.18 was recently published by our colleague @chantalkobel.bsky.social in Celtica 32 (@diasdublin.bsky.social).

🖼️: © @tcddublin.bsky.social @dias-isos.bsky.social
🌐: https://www.isos.dias.ie/TCD/TCD_MS_1337.html

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