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1. Add MS 4811-4827

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POCOCKE COLLECTION
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Collections, relating mainly to Ireland, bequeathed by Dr. Richard Pococke, Bishop of Meath (d. 1765) and transmitted by his executor Jeremiah Milles, 5 June 1767. Sixteen volumes. Paper, unless the contrary is stated. Various sizes. They include (4821, 4822) two volumes formerly in the collecti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
[1395-1799]
Extent:
17 items

2. Add MS 4811-4812

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POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vols. I, II (ff. 186; i+42). Records of the Philosophical Society of Dublin; 1684-1708. The Society was founded in January, 1684, and meetings were held until April, 1687. In April, 1693, the meetings were revived but ceased again about the middle of 1697. In 1707 the Society was refounded but ceased to exist in the following year. For an account of the history of the Society see K. T. Hoppen, The Common Scientist in the seventeenth century, 1970. Viz.:-
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1684-1708
Extent:
2 items

3. Add MS 4821-4822

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POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vols. XI, XII (ff. 242, 53). Collections of the Irish historian Sir James Ware (d. 1666). Cf. Add. MSS. 4783-4801.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1395-1683]
Extent:
2 items

4. Add MS 4818

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POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vol. VIII (ff. 256). History of Ireland by Dr. Geoffrey Keating; 1629. English translation, written circa 1700. The Irish text was edited with a translation by D. Comyn and P. S. Dinneen for the Irish Texts Society, 1902-1914, 4 vols. See also Add. MS. 4779. Geoffrey Keating...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Irish
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 4823

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POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vol. XIII (ff. 92).'A Description and Historical annals of the city of Dublin'; copied by Pococke from the papers of Walter Harris; mid 18th cent. The material is printed with some variations as The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin... By the late Walter Harris .....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 4814

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POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vol. IV (ff. 105). Collections mainly relating to heraldry; circa 1686. There are notes by Aaron Crossly, herald painter of Dublin (d. 1725), at ff. 3, 56b and 57. Viz.:- (1) List of Franciscan houses in Ireland with names of their founders and benefactors. ff. 3-7. (2) A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1686
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 4817

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POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vol. VII (ff. 175). Annals of Clonmacnois as translated from the Irish by Conall Mageoghegan in 1627. Written by Donall O'Sullivan in 1661 (ff. 4b, 173). English with some Irish. The work was edited for the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland by D. Murphy in 1896, from a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1661
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 4825

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POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vol. XV (ff. 55). 'Catalogue des médailles antiques qui se trouvent dans le Cabinet des Sieurs Jean Antoine & Andre Rose frères d'Alep, Ramassées par feu Sieur Corneille Rose Leur père ... augmentées & expliquées par ses dits fils à Alep, 1738 [altered to 1742]'; with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1742-1743
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 4816

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POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vol. VI (ff. iii+ 38). Notes made by Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey (d. 1686), for a general history of Ireland; 1681-1685. Autograph. The history does not seem to have been published (see Herbert Wood, Analecta Hibernica, xii, 1943, pp. 175- 176). The MS. was formerly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1681-1685
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 4813

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POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vol. III (ff. 175). Historical collections in the autograph of Robert Ware; circa 1666-1696. A list made by Jeremiah Milles of the MSS. (now Add. MSS. 4811-4827) bequeathed to the Museum by Bishop Pococke, 1767, occurs at ff. 3-4. Viz.:- (1) Collections concerning churches ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1666-1696
Extent:
1 item