Estimating the survival of texts and manuscripts in the Gaelic tradition

By Pádraig Ó Macháin No manuscripts written completely in Irish survive from before 1106, when our oldest Gaelic manuscript, Leabhar na hUidhre, was written. Together with two other manuscripts, these are the only ones to survive from the twelfth century. From the thirteenth century none survive; from the fourteenth fewer than twenty; which means that ... Read more

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