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1. Add MS 4755-4802

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Title:
MILLES COLLECTION
Scope & Content:
Collections relating mainly to Ireland, presented by the Rev. Jeremiah Milles, Dean of Exeter, 9 May 1766. Forty-nine volumes, most of which bear the Dean's armorial bookplate. Paper, unless the contrary is stated. Various sizes. The majority of the volumes were formerly in the library of James ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
[395-1799]
Extent:
49 items

2. Add MS 4779

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Scope & Content:
MILLES COLLECTION. Vol. XXVI (ff. i + 100). Foras Feasa ar Eirinn: a history of Ireland, in Irish, by Dr. Geoffrey Keating; 1629. This MS. was written in 1694 by Denis Kilmartin for Lawrence Meagher. The text was published from other MSS. by the Irish Texts Society, 4 vols., 1902-1914, ed. David...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Irish
Date Range:
1629
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 4783-4801

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Title:
MILLES COLLECTION. Vols. XXX-XLVIII. Collections of the Irish historian Sir James Ware (d. 1666), relating mainly to Irish history from fabulous times to the seventeenth century. English, Latin and Irish. The material consists of notes and copies made by Ware and his assistants, taken mainly from Irish annals, lives of saints, ecclesiastical, public and municipal records, and printed works. Also included are some original documents which are listed in the descriptions below. For other MSS. f...
Scope & Content:
Sir James Ware, d 1666 the younger; historian: Historical collections of: 5th-17th centt.: Partly autogr. Ireland: Collections of Sir J. Ware rel. to: 5th-17th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
[400-1699]
Extent:
19 items

4. Add MS 4811-4827

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Title:
POCOCKE COLLECTION
Scope & Content:
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