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Miscellany of late antique and early medieval Latin texts. It contains the earliest extant copy of the Historia Brittonum together with a text of the Annales Cambriae and a set of Welsh genealogies, which were both interpolated into the Historia after the section occasionally referred to as the ‘northern history’. A text of possible Irish interest is that of the Cosmographia of Aethicus Ister.

Collection of notes, including poems, relating to the history of Ireland, compiled during the reign of Elizabeth I in the second half of the 16th century (c.1560x1579) by Christopher St Lawrence, seventh baron Howth (d. 1589).

Composite manuscript consisting of two originally independent, early 16th-century manuscripts of Scottish history, which were bound together for one Robert Robertoun, treasurer of Edinburgh.

Large 17th-century paper manuscript (893 pp.), which is one of two volumes containing a history of the reform of the nobility in Brittany. The present volume covers Nantes, Quimper, Vannes, Saint-Pol-de-Léon and Saint-Malo.

Large 17th-century paper manuscript (889 pp.), which is the second of two volumes containing a history of the ‘reform of the nobility of Brittany’. The present volume covers Rennes, Dol, Quimper, Saint-Brieuc and Tréguier and also includes a section (p. 601ff.) containing transcripts and summaries of the Lives of Breton saints.