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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4811-4827
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4812
Title:
Scope & Content:: Register Book, containing copies of papers and letters read before the Philosophical Society of Dublin; 20 Aug. 1707-11 Mar. 1707/8. Natural Science: Minutes and register books of the Dublin Philosophical Society: 1683-1708. County of Dublin: Minutes and register books of the Philosophical S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Aug 1707-11 Mar [1708]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4813
Title:
Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4814
Title:
Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4815
Title:
Scope & Content:: POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vol. V (ff. vi + 257). Heraldic collections of Aaron Crossly, herald painter of Dublin (d. 1725), partly in his autograph (see particularly ff. 155-188, 194-257 passim); 16th-18th centt. With illustrations. A memoranda book of errors and hide bonds of Irish customs collectors...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4816
Title:
Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4817
Title:
Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4818
Title:
Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4819
Title:
Scope & Content:: POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vol. IX (ff. 463). Collections relating to Irish history of the 16th- 17th centt. Viz.:- (1) Proceedings of the High Commissioners appointed for the regulation of the government of Ireland, 1537-1538; 17th cent. copies. Latin and English. Imperfect. Cf. Cal. State Papers: Ir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4820
Title:
Scope & Content:: POCOCKE COLLECTION. Vol. X (ff. 299). Funeral certificates, probably copied from records of the Ulster King of Arms, with other heraldic and genealogical material chiefly relating to Ireland; 1607- 1729. The funeral certificates were printed in instalments without arms in the Journal of the Asso...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1607-1729
Extent:: 1 item

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