La Perfecta was a ^[1] big band from Martinique whose styles included cadence and compas.^[2]

Discography[link]

• Pour toujours (DEBS, 1996)
• L'inoubliable Perfecta (1979)
• A youskous pas fe fou (DEBS)
• Help me baby
• La divinité (DEBS)
• Retrouvailles (Hibiscus Records)

Album : Retrouvailles Label : Hibiscus Records Année : 2003

1. Perfeta L'original 2. Wou 3. Fais Pas Si Fais Pas Ca 4. L'anmou Ce Mêt 5. Peyi A Ka Chalvire 6. Rêverie 7. Titine Makrel 8. Manmaye Jodi 9. Devoir De Mémoire 10. La Divinité 11. Ayen 12. Devoir De Mémoire

Album : Pour toujours Label : DEBS Music Année : 1996

1. Sevi ou mori 2. Nou toujou la 3. Dilou 4. Mamy 5. En nous alle 6. Mon caporal 7. Holyday's flight 8. Pli ta pli tris 9. Tcha tcha co ou

Album : 1970-1980 Label : DEBS Music

1. Indicatif 2. Tout' cé yo 3. Hotel california 4. Courage 5. Crépuscule 6. Manmaill' la 7. Rêve moin 8. La prière

Album : A youskous pas fe fou Label : DEBS Music

Album : Help me baby

1. Help me baby 2. Chimin an 3. Suplication 4. Yo que save 5. Refuge moin

Album : La divinité Label : DEBS Music

1. La divinité 2. Baille chabon 3. Laisse i passe 4. Constatation 5. Angela 6. Getting out the darkness 7. Il le fallait 8. Si ou pas le comprend 9. Fasaria

Album : La perfecta à l'atrium Label : DEBS Music

1. Clair de Lune à l'escale 2. Tout bagaye paré 3. A youskous 4. Cuando mega si 5. Getting out the darkness 6. Help me baby 7. Ad libitum 8. Face à face 9. La prière 10. Chimen-an 11. La divinité 12. La Perfecta au Bataclan 13. Interviews 14. A youskous (version originale)

Album : Tout bagail parer Label : DEBS Music

1. Tout bagail parer 2. A youskous pas fe fou 3. Adieu fort de france et mon pays 4. Chic chec choc 5. Pas tchouei 6. Roro deg deg 7. Cadence pom pom 8. Demain ke river 9. Yo ke sav 10. Jodi jou

References[link]

1. ^ http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/country/content.country/martinique_44
2. ^ McConnachie, James (2000). World music: the rough guide, Volume 2. Rough Guides. p. 295. ISBN 978-1-85828-636-5. 

External links[link]

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For the Irish-language publisher named after the manuscript, see Leabhar Breac (publisher)

(An) Leabhar Breac ("Speckled Book"), now less commonly Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre (The Great Book of Dun Doighre") or possibly erroneously, Leabhar Breac Mic Aodhagáin ("The Speckled Book of the MacEgans"),^[1] is a medieval Irish vellum manuscript containing Middle Irish and Hiberno-Latin writings. The manuscript is held in the library of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, where it is catalogued as RIA MS 23 P 16 or 1230. It was most probably compiled by Murchadh (Riabach) Ó Cuindlis of Bally Lough Deacker, at Duniry between the years 1408 and 1411. Duniry — Dún Daighre, Dún Doighre — in eastern Clanricarde (now east County Galway) is situated about half-an-hour's drive south-east of the town of Loughrea, and in the medieval era was home to a branch of the bardic Clann Mac Aodhagáin (the MacEgans), who served as brehons for the O'Connors of Clanricarde.

History[link]

In the 16th-century, the manuscript was in the possession of the Mac Egans of Duniry, hence the older title Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre. In 1629, when the manuscript was held in the convent of Cenél Féichín (Connacht), it was consulted by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, brother of the Four Masters, who copied pp. 272–7. The book passed into the possession of Eamon Ó Ceallaigh (Co. Roscommon) in 1732, then of Dr. John O'Brien by 1768 and finally of Cornelius O'Daly (Mitchelstown, Co. Cork). The Royal Irish Academy acquired the first volume in 1789, when General Charles Vallancey purchased it for the academy for 3 guineas from Cornelius O'Daly. O'Daly also owned the second volume, which comprises nine leaves, but was unaware that it belonged to the larger volume. In 1789, this volume was acquired by Chevalier O'Gorman, by George Smith of College Green in the next century and by the Academy sometime after 1844. The manuscript is held in the Academy's library in Dublin to this day.^[2]

Description[link]

The manuscript is of a large size, measuring 40.5 cm x 28 cm, which makes it the largest Irish vellum manuscript to have been written by a single scribe.^[3] It contains 40 folios, which are written in double columns. Capitals are decorated in a simple style, with some letters having been interwoven with zoomorphic patterns and coloured in red, vermilion, yellow and blue. There are two drawings, a flower-like diagram on p. 121 and a drawing of the Crucifixion on p. 166.^[4]

Contents[link]

The manuscript consists almost entirely of religious writings in Latin and Middle Irish. It includes homiletic Lives of Saint Patrick, Saint Columba, Saint Brigid, Saint Cellach, and Saint Martin, the earliest version of Félire Óengusso ("Martyrology of Óengus"), the Rule of the Céli Dé, Aislinge Meic Con Glinne ("The Vision of Mac Conglinne"), Saltair na Rann, Stair Nicomeid ("Gospel of Nicodemus"), Amra Choluim Chille, a Marian litany, and various ecclesiastical legends, hymns, catecheses and homilies. Exceptions to the predominantly religious contents are Sanas Cormaic ("Cormac's Glossary") and a history of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great.^[5]

Glosses and notes[link]

The numerous notes which Murchadh Ó Cuindlis jotted into the margins afford us a unique glimpse of the circumstances of the writing process. These range from everyday details like a cat straying about or a robin singing in a beautiful voice to a nearby pillage in Lorrha by a certain Murchad Ua Madagáin. A persistent object of complaint for the writer is the weather, in particular the cold.^[6] Based on the notes, Tomás Ó Concheanainn has been able to reconstruct the time span in which certain sections had been written. For instance, it took the scribe about 6 weeks to write 35 pages (pp. 141–75), while some parts proved more challenging, such as a column for a poem with interlinear glosses, which cost him a day.^[6]

Footnotes[link]

See also[link]

• Irish annals

References[link]

• Welsh, Robert. Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature. 1996. ISBN 0-19-280080-9
• O'Neill, Timothy. "Leabhar Breac." In Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia, ed. Seán Duffy. New York, 2004. 266-7.

Sources (with external links)[link]

• Anonymous = Joseph Ó Longáin (fasc) and J.J. Gilbert (ed.). Leabhar Breac, the Speckled Book, otherwise styled Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre, the Great Book of Dun Doighre. Dublin, 1876. Lithographic facsimile edition.
• Irish Script on Screen (DIAS): images and description of Leabhar Breac.
• Atkinson, Robert (ed. and tr.). The Passions and the Homilies from Leabhar Breac: Text, Translation, and Glossary. Todd Lecture Series II. Dublin, 1887. Edited text available online from CELT.
• Betha Phatraic "Life of St Patrick" (Leabhar Breac pp. 24b-29b), ed. and tr. Whitley Stokes, Three Middle-Irish Homilies. Calcutta, 1877. Text edition and translation available online from CELT.
• Rule of the Céli Dé (9b-12b), ed. E.J. Gwynn. In The Rule of Tallaght. Hermathena 44, Second Suppelement. 1927.
• Greene, David and Frank O’Connor (eds. & trs.). A golden treasury of Irish poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200. London: Macmillan, 1967.

Further reading[link]

• Bernard, J.H. "On the citations from scripture in the Leabhar Breac." Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 30 (1893): 321-4.
• Egan, J.J. and Egan, M.J. History of Clan Egan. The birds of the forest of wisdom. Ann Arbor, 1979. 59-67.
• Mulchrone, Kathleen et al. Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin, 1943. Fasc. 27.
• Ó Concheanainn, Tomás. "The scribe of the Leabhar Breac." Ériu 24 (1973): 64-79.
• Ritmueller, J. "The Hiberno-Latin Background of the Leabhar Breac Homily "In Cena Domini"." Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 2 (1982): 1-10.
• Haubrichs, Wolfgang. "Die altlateinische Gallicanus-version (Gall.) der Georgslegende und ihr Reflex im 'Leabhar Breac'." In Ireland and Europe in the early Middle Ages. Texts and transmission / Irland und Europa im früheren Mittelalter. Texte und Überlieferung, ed. Próinséas Ní Chatháin and Michael Richter. Dublin: Four Courts, 2002. 170-85.

External links[link]

• Scéla. Catalogue of medieval Irish narratives & literary enumerations
• The Lebar Brecc Tractate on the Canonical Hours, ed. R.I. Best.
• Regula Mochuta Rathin, ed. K. Meyer.
• The Mothers’ Lament at the Slaughter of the Innocents, ed. K. Meyer.
• Imchlód Aingel (Aingil Dé dom dín), ed. T.P. O’Nolan.
• Die Kreuzeslegenden im Leabhar Breac - Inaugural-Dissertaion zur Erlangung de Doctorwuerde (in German) By Gustav Schirmer, St. Gallen, 1886

Eddie Palmieri
Background information
Born	(1936-12-15) December 15, 1936 (age 75)
Origin	New York City, New York
Genres	Salsa, Latin jazz

Eddie Palmieri (born December 15, 1936), is a Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican pianist, bandleader and musician, best known for combining jazz piano and instrumental solos with Latin rhythms.