MS Egerton 88 is a late sixteenth-century Irish manuscript, now housed in the British Library

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 Egerton Collection

Egerton Collection

The Egerton Collection is a collection of 67 manuscripts bequeathed to the British Museum in 1829 along with £12,000 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater. To this was added £3000 in 1838 by Egerton's cousin, Charles Long, Baron Farnborough.The Collection is now in the British Library....

, London. It is the work of members of the O'Davoren

O'Davoren

The Ó Duibhdábhoireann family were scholarly clan of Corcomroe, Thomond , Ireland active since medieval times....

s (Irish: Ó Duibhdábhoireann), a distinguished family of lawyers in Corcomroe, Co. Clare, and was compiled between 1564 and 1569 under the supervision of Domhnall Ó Duibhdábhoireann.

The document is an important collection of medieval Irish legal texts, literature

Early Irish literature

-The earliest Irish authors:It is unclear when literacy first came to Ireland. The earliest Irish writings are inscriptions, mostly simple memorials, on stone in the ogham alphabet, the earliest of which date to the fourth century...

, grammatical works and legal glossaries.

External links

• Contents of Egerton 88, Clare Library.