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The Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta, RIA MS 23 P 12, 275 foll.), named for the parish of Ballymote, County Sligo, was written in 1390 or 1391. The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) is one of Irelands premier learned societies and cultural institutions. ... Ballymote (Baile an Mhóta in Irish) is a town in County Sligo, Ireland. ... Sligo (Sligeach in Irish) is a county in the province of Connacht in the west of Ireland. ... Events Births December 27 - Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (died 1411) Domenico da Piacenza, Italian dancemaster (died 1470) John Dunstable, English composer (died 1453) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman and rebel leader (died 1436) Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (died 1447) John VIII Palaeologus Byzantine Emperor (died 1448) Deaths... Events August 5 - Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Toledo, Spain and Barcelona. ...

It was produced by the scribes Solam Ó Droma, Robertus Mac Sithigh and Magnus Ó Duibgennain, on commission by Tonnaltagh McDonagh, in the possession of whose clan the manuscript remained until in 1522, when it was purchased by Aed Óg O'Donnell, prince of Tír Conaill, for 140 milch cows. In 1620 it was given to Trinity College, Dublin, but was subsequently stolen from the library, and only returned to the Royal Irish Academy upon its foundation in 1785 by Chevalier O'Gorman who allegedly purchased it from a millwright's widow in Drogheda for 20 pounds. Events September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. ... There are several well-known bodies of this name (some independent institutions, others constituent colleges of a larger University); among the most well-known are: Trinity College, Cambridge (one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom) Trinity College, Dublin (sole constituent college of the... The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) is one of Irelands premier learned societies and cultural institutions. ... 1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Drogheda (Droichead Átha in Irish, meaning Bridge of the Ford) is an industrial and port town in County Louth (on the border with County Meath) on the east coast of Ireland, 56 km north of Dublin. ...

The first page of the work contains a drawing of Noah's Ark. The first written page is lost, and the second page describes the ages of the world. After this follows Michelangelo Buonarroti In the Hebrew Bibles account (Gen. ...

• a description of the history of the History of the Jews (2r)
• a life of Saint Patrick (6r)
• a copy of the Lebor Gabála Érenn (8r)
• "The Instructions of King Cormac" and other stories concerning king Cormac mac Airt
• stories of Fionn Mac Cumhail and Brian Borumh
• various genealogies of clans and kings
  • Christian kings of Ulster (34v)
  • Christian kings of Leinster (35v)
  • Christian kings of Connaught (37v)
  • of the Munster families (97r)
  • Dal Cas (102v)
• rules of the different measures of Irish versification (157r)
• the only known copy of the Auraicept na n-Éces, or "scholars' primer"
• the Lebor na gCeart (Book of Rights) (181r)

The book ends with various Greek and Latin fragments on the fall of Troy, including a fragment of the Aeneid. Jewish history is the history of the Jewish people, faith (Judaism) and culture. ... Statue of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick (died March 17?, 492/493) is the patron saint of Ireland, along with Saint Brigid and Saint Columba. ... Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland) is the Middle Irish title of a loose collection of poems and prose narratives recounting the mythical origins and history of the Irish race from the creation of the world down to the Middle Ages. ... Cormac Mac Airt is probably the most famous of the ancient kings of Ireland, and is now thought to have been an authentic historical king. ... Fionn mac Cumhail (earlier Finn or Find mac Cumail or mac Umaill, pronounced roughly Finn mac Cool) was a legendary hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, also known in Scotland and the Isle of Man. ... fol. ... Walls of the excavated city of Troy (Turkey) Troy (Greek Τροία Troia also Ἰλιον; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city, scene of the Trojan War, part of which is described in Homers Iliad, an epic poem in Ancient Greek, composed in the 8th or 7th century BC, but containing older... The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BCE (between 29 and 19 BCE) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans. ...

Editions

• Robert Atkinson. NY: AMS Press. ISBN: 040417535X
• O'Donovan, The Book of Rights, ed. and trans. 1847.
• The Book of Ballymote: Photographic facsimile with introduction by R. Atkinson, (Dublin 1887).

References

• McDonagh, James, History of Ballymote and the Parish of Emlaghfad (1998). [1]
• Harrison, A.: 'Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta ag tús an 18ú aois', Éigse 23 (1989), 147-50.
• Ó Concheanainn, T.: 'The Book of Ballymote', Celtica 14 (1981), 15-25.

External links

• The Book of Ballymote (excerpt of McDonagh 1998)
• Genealogies from the Book of Ballymote
• Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta (ria.ie)
• Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta
• Irish Sript on Screen has a facsimile