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provided through Google SearchA copy of John Wynn’s History of the Gwydir family in the hand of Thomas Rowlands.
- 1669
- c. 1400
- 1543-1548
A miscellany of materials relating to early British history, written in various hands, including those of Siôn Dafydd Rhys and Robert Vaughan.
- ?1550 x 1800
Irish manuscript in the hand of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh.
- 1642
A large English manuscript volume in three separately foliated segments.
- s. xiv–xv
A manuscript of Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn, excluding the Synchronisms.
- s. xvii2
- Tomás Ua Faoláin
- s. xvii
Irish manuscript in the hand of Mícheál Ó Longáin, containing history and verse relating to the Dál Cais based on the ‘old Book of Munster in the possession of Donnell O'Sullivan [in Glenn O'Ruachtan]’.
- 1762
Fragment of a biblical history.
- 1474
- Tadhg Ó Rigbardáin
Copy of the Annals of the Four Masters made in 1843 by Owen Connellan from the autograph manuscript; with letter by George Petrie on the history of the exemplar.
- s. xix
A purely hypothetical ‘very ancient book in the British language’ (quendam Brittanici sermonis librum uetustissimum) containing a history of the deeds of the kings of Britain, from Brutus to Cadwalladr, which Geoffrey of Monmouth alleges to have rendered into Latin when writing his Historia regum Britanniae, a work known for its audacious originality. Geoffrey mentions it in the preface to this work, where he claims to have received the book from Walter, archdeacon of Oxford. Whatever his source material may have been, or Walter’s role in supplying it, the claim that so much of this was written in the vernacular and contained in a single volume (implicitly, to which few would have access) is commonly regarded as a spurious appeal to authority.
17th-century Irish manuscript containing materials concerning the history of Ireland, including a copy of the Annals of the Four Masters (ff. 36-86).
- s. xviiin
- 1760
- 1768-1769
- s. xvii/xviiiin
- s. xvii
- s. xviii