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or pen tests, in which the scribe wrote his name. A much later note elsewhere in the manuscript names Máel Muire as the person who "wrote and compiled this book from divers books". His murder by
Vikings at
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History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. The Hodges & Smith collection, 227 manuscripts in all, was purchased by the Royal Irish Academy in 1844.
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and is badly damaged: only 67 leaves remain and many of the texts are incomplete. It is named after an anachronistic legend that it was made from the hide of a
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in 1106, giving us a latest possible date and location for the main body of the manuscript. Some time later,
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Clonmacnoise was broken up, the manuscript came into the possession of the
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dating to the 12th century. It is the oldest extant manuscript in
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Chonaill ria Diarmait mac Aeda Sláni for Guari Adni
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to convert to
Christianity, contains passages interpolated by H
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Chormaic
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911:"Lebar na nUidre ; The Book of the Dun Cow"
895:"LEBOR NA HUIDRE CONFERENCE 22–23 NOVEMBER 2012"
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