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THE COLLECTS, EPISTLES AND GOSPELS for Sundays and feast-days throughout the year and the Psalms from the Book of Common Prayer, in Irish, with a fragment of traditional early history of Ireland in English, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER
THE COLLECTS, EPISTLES AND GOSPELS for Sundays and feast-days throughout the year and the Psalms from the Book of Common Prayer, in Irish, with a fragment of traditional early history of Ireland in English, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [Ireland, first half 18th century] 208 x 165mm. 90 leaves: COMPLETE, written in a fine Gaelic script in brown ink, ff. 89v-90v in English (heavy browning and marginal tear to first leaf affecting text, marginal dampstaining throughout, stains affecting text on ff.34v-35, missing upper section of f.81 and tears into text of final leaf). Contemporary leather binding (warped and rubbed). Provenance : the English text on the final two leaves of the manuscript is in a mid-18th century English hand: the text itself an excerpt from Hugh Mac Curtin's (here spelt 'Hugh Mc Curtain') A Brief discourse in vindication of the antiquity of Ireland , published in 1717; the paper is of Dutch origin and bears a watermark with the arms of the city of Amsterdam, in use in the late 17th and 18th centuries; a few later 19th-century annotations in pen and pencil, including a pentrial reading 'Patrick Liddy, his hand' on f. 12v. It seems likely that the present manuscript was intended for private devotional use. The text, entitled 'Na nOrthanna, Eipistlí, agus Soiscéalta', is an Irish translation of the 'Collects, epistles and Gospels to be used throughout the year' and of the Psalms from the Church of England Book of Common Prayer, beginning with the Collect for the first Sunday in Advent followed by Romans 13.8 (f. 1) and ending with Psalm 150 (f. 88). It follows very closely John Richardson's (1664-1747) translation of the revised prayer book of 1662, which was published in 1712.