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Manuscripts

London, British Library, MS Additional 4789 Milles collection vol. 36

  • English, Latin, Irish
  • s. xvii (?)
  • Irish manuscripts
  • paper

17th-century collection of historical documents. Includes a part of the Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1486-1504, in English translation., with the Latin parts left untranslated.

Identifiers
Location
Collection: Additional manuscripts
Shelfmark
Additional 4789
Classification
Clarendon, 43
Title
Milles collection vol. 36
Type
histories manuscript miscellanies
Provenance and related aspects
Language
English, Latin Secondary: Irish
Date
s. xvii (?)
17th century (?).
Origin, provenance
Later provenance: ass. with Milles (Jeremiah) [d. 1784]
Milles (Jeremiah)
(1714–1784)
English antiquarian, dean of Exeter and president of the Society of Antiquaries.

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The manuscript is among those formerly in Clarendon collection that were presented by Jeremiah Milles (Add MSS 4755–4802).
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
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

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

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Secondary sources (select)

British Library: archives and manuscripts, Online: British Library. URL: <https://searcharchives.bl.uk>.
Flower, Robin, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 2, London: British Museum, 1926.
– IIIF Presentation API v2: View in Mirador – IIIF Presentation API v3: View in Mirador
Mac Carthy, Bartholomew, Annala Uladh: Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annala Senait, Annals of Senat: a chronicle of Irish affairs, 4 vols, vol. 4: Introduction and index, Dublin, 1901.
Internet Archive – vol. 4: <link>
vi–vii On the English-language version of the Annals of Ulster.
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.
 : <link>
325–328 [id. 4789. ‘vol. XLII. of the Clarendon MSS’]
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
May 2011, last updated: December 2024