A 15th-century miscellany of prose and verse texts in Irish and
Latin, assembled mostly in 1453 and 1454 in Carrick, Pottlerath and
elsewhere for Edmund Butler (d. 1464). The two main scribes copied
out earlier materials including genealogies and legends, partly
from the Saltair of Cashel (now lost), and also incorporated (fols.
59r-72r, 123r-146v) 'The Book of the White Earl', which had been
made with finely decorated initials between 1410 and 1452 for
Edmund's uncle James Butler, 4th earl of Ormond (d. 1452). Another
fragment of the MS. is in Dublin, Trinity College, MS. E. 4. 1.