Deliver of Leinster
The Book of Leinster (in Irish Lebor Laignech ), known in the past under the name of Book of Noughaval ( Lebor Na Nuachongbála ), is a Manuscrit Irish medieval compiled towards 1160 and preserved today at the Trinity College of Dublin.
It is one of the most important sources as regards Irish Littérature medieval, of Généalogie and Irish Celtic Mythologie, containing inter alia the Lebor Gabála Érenn (the Livre of the invasions of Ireland ), the most complete version of the Táin Bó Cúailnge (the Razzia of the cows of Cooley ), the Metrical Dindshenchas and a translation/Irish adaptation of the Of excidio Troiae Historia . This book seems the work of only one copyist/compiler, Áed Ua Crimthainn. According to the annals preserved in this manuscript, one can say that it was composed between 1151 and 1201, the essence of work dating from the years 1160.
The manuscript counts 187 sheets of 33 cm out of approximately 23. A note in the book would imply that 45 sheets were lost. A diplomatic edition was published by Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in six volumes over one period of twenty-nine years.
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