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Excerpt from Imtheachta Æniasa, the Irish Æneid: Being a Translation, Made Before A. D. 1400, of the XII Books of Vergil's Æneid Into Gaelic; The Irish Text, With Translation Into English, Introduction, Vocabulary, and Notes
The source of the Irish Eneid is the Book of Ballymote (pp. 449 the property of the Royal Irish Academy, and widely known by means of the facsimile. Prof. Atkinson has, in the Introduction to the fcs., given an account of the contents. Besides that account, and those in the printed catalogues, two others may be mentioned. The first is by o'curry, in the r.i.a. Catalogue of Irish mss., First Series, Part iii., 753 - 875. The second is by o'donovan, ms. Cat. H. Z. 4. The Book of Ballymote is, so far as is at present known, the only source. Not even a copy of the tale is known to exist; for, in the paper copy of the Book of Ballymote, deposited in the Story of the feneid finds no place. The title is entered in the Table of Contents, but has again been cancelled. The scribe never began to write the tale, and its allotted space remains blank. The condition of the proper names shows that it was copied, probably, many times after it left the translator's hands; and other copies may yet be found.
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