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Add MS 6917

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032-003442986

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Add MS 6917

Title:

Extracts from chronicles relating to Irish history

Scope & Content:

1. Runic inscription on the cross at Bewcastle; from Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII. fol. 1.

2. Chronica Hybernie, de primis incolis; deinde ab anno 948 ad ann. 1536, item, Regionis Descriptio et alia quædam; from the same manuscript [Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII]. ff. 1- 71.

3. Genealogiæ Butleriorum, Darciorum, O’Neil, O’Conghor, Comitum Ultoniæ, Comitum Kildariæ, Burgensium sive Burk, et McWilliam de Clauricart; from the same manuscript [Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII]. ff. 72-75.

4. Excerpta ex Giraldo Cambrensi, de topographia Walliæ etc. from the same manuscript [Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII]. ff. 76-79.

5. Etymologica Hiberniæ nomenclatura, seu antiquæ Hiberniæ ad Hibernos nuncius ab antiquis; from Cod. Clarendon 51, Add MS 4796. ff. 80-99.

6. Hiberniæ Descriptio; from the same manuscript [Cod. Clarendon 51, Add MS 4796]. ff. 100-108.

7. Collectanea e variis Auctoribus, de Hibernia; from the same manuscript [Cod. Clarendon 51, Add MS 4796]. ff. 100-108.

8. De Ossoriensi diocesi; from the same manuscript [Cod. Clarendon 51, Add MS 4796]. ff. 108-109.

9. Account of the persons who had right of burial in the cemetery of Cluaine Mac Noise, and the lands they gave to Cluaine for the right; from the same manuscript [Cod. Clarendon 51, Add MS 4796]. ff. 110-121.

10. Series Regum Hiberniæ, ab adventu S. Patricii usque ad adventum Hen. II, anno 1171; from the same manuscript [Cod. Clarendon 51, Add MS 4796]. ff. 122-130.

11. De Regibus Hiberniæ ex leabhair oisis, ab anno mundi 3167 ad annum Christi 468; from the same manuscript [Cod. Clarendon 51, Add MS 4796]. ff. 131-140.

12. Varia ad Hiberniæ historiam spectantia, præcipue ab A.C. 430 ad A.C. 469; from the same manuscript [Cod. Clarendon 51, Add MS 4796]. ff. 141-142.

13. Reges Ultoniæ et Reges Lageniæ; from the same manuscript [Cod. Clarendon 51, Add MS 4796]. ff. 143-145.

14. Catalogue Regum Hiberniæ; a Slainge, primo eorum Rege, ad Laogarium qui regnavit in adventu S. Patricii; from the same manuscript [Cod. Clarendon 51, Add MS 4796]; with the corresponding chronology from O Flaherty’s History of Ireland. ff. 145v-152.

15. Series Custodum, Justiciariorum, Deputatorum, et Locumtenentium Hiberniæ, jam inde ab adventu Henrici Secundi in Hiberniam, ad ann. 1526; from the same manuscript [Cod. Clarendon 51, Add MS 4796]. ff. 153-164.

16. Note of the rough draft of Sir James Ware’s book de Præsulibus Hiberniæ in his own hand writing, preserved in the same manuscript [Cod. Clarendon 51, Add MS 4796]. fol. 165.

17. Irish alphabet and grammar, extracted from the New Testament in Irish. 8o, London, 1712. ff. 166-171.

18. Anonymi Hiberni Tractatus de variis apud Hibernos veteres occultis scribendi formulis seu artificiis, Hibernice Ogum dictis; from Cod. Clarendon XV, Add MS 4783. ff. 172-189.

19. Fragmenta Historiæ Hiberniæ, ab anno 1285 ad annum 1431, item ab ann. 948 ad 1242; from Cotton MS Vespasian D X. ff. 190-199.

20. Genealogiæ Comitum Kildariæ, Darceiorum, Burk, et McWilliam; item, historiola de partitione Hiberniæ inter Geraldinos et Butlerinos; from the same manuscript [Cotton MS Vespasian D X]. ff. 200-203. The genealogies are the same as those previously copied from another manuscript, article 3.

21. Duplicate copy of part of article 3. ff. 204, 204v.

22. Liber Annalium Monasterii de Buello in Hibernia, transcribed from Cotton MS Titus A XXV. ff. 205-257.

23. Miscellanea de Hibernia usque ad tempus Hen. II; from Cotton MS Claudius E VIII. ff. 258-267.

24. Another transcript of the same; from Royal MS 14 C VI. ff. 268-279.

25. An abbreviate of the getting of Ireland, and of the decay of the same [time of James I) from Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII. ff. 280-287v.

26. Archiepiscopatus in Hybernia; Havens of Ireland; Description of the power of Irishmen; Revenues of Ireland; etc. ; from the same manuscript [Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII]. ff. 288-298.

27. Description of the Islands of Ila and Orkney, the Hebrides etc.; from the same manuscript [Cotton MS Domitian A XVIII]. fol. 299.

28. Transcript of the two first stanzas of Sir Francis Hubert’s poem of the life of Edward II from Harley MS 2393. fol. 300.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume (300 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1760

End Date:

1840

Date Range:

Late 18th century-Early 19th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Quarto

Source of Acquisition:

Add MS 6913 to 7057 inclusive consist chiefly of historical transcripts, excerpts and collections made by the Rev. John Haddon Hindley, principally from manuscripts in the British Museum; together with a few Oriental manuscripts; all presented by Mrs M. B

Material Type:

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Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

This catalogue description has been transcribed from the original [18th-19th-century] handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts and may contain inaccuracies. The handwritten catalogue is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.