"Book of Lecan" redirects here. Not to be confused with the Yellow Book of Lecan, an earlier manuscript.
The Great Book of Lecan or simply Book of Lecan (Irish: Leabhar [Mór] Leacáin) (RIA, Ms. 23 P 2) is a late-medievalIrishmanuscript written between 1397 and 1418 in Castle Forbes, Lecan (Lackan, Leckan; Irish Leacán), in the territory of Tír Fhíacrach, near modern Enniscrone, County Sligo. It is in the possession of the Royal Irish Academy.[1] Another date estimate puts the range from c. 1397–1432 or possibly even a little later.[2]David Sellar, who was the Lord Lyon King of Arms in Scotland, concluded that it dates from the early 15th century.[3]
There were originally 30 folios; the first nine were apparently lost in 1724. These contained a large section devoted to the pedigrees and history of the Norse and Norse–Gaelic families of Ireland, which are nowhere else preserved.[7]
The pages are covered in a greasy substance which makes them transparent and reduces their legibility.[1]
^ abcJones, Mary (2004). "The Great Book of Lecan". Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia.
^ abFarry, Neal (23 July 2020). "The Book of Ballymote: Codices Hibernenses Eximii - II - Edited by Ruairí Ó hUiginn". The Corran Herald (52: 2019/2020): 17 – via Issu. Cites both Ó hUiginn and Nollaig Ó Muraile.
^Sellar, W. D. H. (October 1966). "The Origins and Ancestry of Somerled". The Scottish Historical Review. 45 (140): 125. JSTOR 25528658.
^Calder, George. Färber, Beatrix (ed.). "The Scholar's Primer". CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts. University College, Cork. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
^Bergin, John (October 2009). "Fitzgerald, Sir John". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
^Cusack, Mary Frances (1875) [1868]. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 (New & enlarged ed.). Kenmare Publications. p. 50 – via Google Books.
^Mac Firbis, Duald (1905). On the Fomorians and the Norsemen. Translated by Bugge, Alexander. Christiania, Norway: J. Chr. Gundersens Bogtrykkeri. See Bugge's introduction.
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