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Manuscripts

London, British Library, MS Additional 4788 Milles collection vol. 35

  • English, Irish, Latin
  • s. xvii
  • distinct manuscript
  • Irish manuscripts
  • paper

Paper manuscript belonging to James Ware (d. 1666) and in part, written by him. It contains transcripts of Irish texts and items from Irish texts.

Identifiers
Location
Collection: Additional manuscripts
Shelfmark
Additional 4788
Classification
Clarendon, 39
Title
Milles collection vol. 35
Type
histories manuscript miscellanies
Provenance and related aspects
Language
English, Irish, Latin
Date
s. xvii
17th century.
Hands, scribes
Ware (James)
Ware (James)
(d. 1666)
(Sir) James Ware, Irish scholar, historian and antiquarian

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Codicological information
UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.
distinct manuscript
Material
paper
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

Sources

Secondary sources (select)

British Library: archives and manuscripts, Online: British Library. URL: <https://searcharchives.bl.uk>.
Hughes, Kathleen, “A manuscript of Sir James Ware: British Museum Additional 4788”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 55 C (1953): 111–116.
Description of the manuscript.
OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 1, London: British Museum, 1926.
Ayscough, Samuel, A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed: consisting of five thousand volumes; including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. [...], 2 vols, vol. 1, London: John Rivington, 1782.
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325 [id. 4788. ‘Vol. XXXIX. of the Clarendon MSS’]
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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November 2013, last updated: October 2024