Yellow Book of Lecan, columns 245-246

TCD MS 1318 (formerly H 2.16), commonly referred to as the Yellow Book of Lecan (YBL), is a collection of seventeen manuscripts which were bound together by the Welsh antiquarian Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709). Numbered in columns, this composite includes vellum manuscripts, whose dates range from the 14th to the 15th century. Only cols. 370-400, written by Cithruadh mac Taidhg ruaidh, actually belong to the section designated as the Yellow Book of Lecan, i.e. YBL proper. Other fragments of YBL proper include RIA MS D v 1, RIA MS D iv 1, RIA MS D i 3, and Bodleian MS Rawl. B 488, ff. 1-26. Given the nature of its composition, the contents of this manuscript are wide ranging and the scribes are various: it contains a large collection of Bardic poetry, as well as the Triads of Ireland, Early Irish religious literature, and a large body of Early Irish saga literature, including Recension I of the extended narrative Táin Bó Cúailnge.