Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 574

  • Latin, Irish
  • s. xvii
  • Irish manuscripts
Compilation of extracts and texts from various Irish annals and registers in Latin, incl. the Register of Clogher, John Clyn's Annals of Ireland, Henry of Marlborough's annals, short annals of Ireland by Thady Dowling, Gerald of Wales, the annals of Dunbrody Abbey, the Black and White Books of Christ Church, Dublin, the annals of Ross and the Annals of Ulster. For much of the material, there is evidence that it was written for James Ussher (d. 1656). The manuscript passed into the possession of James Ware.
Identifiers
Location
Shelfmark
E 3. 20
Classification
Cat. no. 574
Type
Irish annals
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin Secondary: Irish
Date
s. xvii
17th century
Hands, scribes
Table of contents
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Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Elizabethanne, Boran, “Writing history in seventeenth-century Ireland: Dudley Loftus’ Annals”, in: Muriel McCarthy, and Ann Simmons (eds), Marsh's library: a mirror on the world: law, learning and libraries, 1650-1750, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009. 203–233.
212–213
Abbott, T. K., and E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of the Irish manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co, 1921.
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Abbott, T. K., Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin; to which is added a list of the Fagel collection of maps in the same Library, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1900.
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92 Note Annales Ultonienses ... ad 1663 must be in error.
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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May 2011, last updated: August 2023