Britannia (William Camden)
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Camden (William)
Camden (William)
(d. 1623)
English antiquarian and author, known best for his Britannia.

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Illustrium maioris Britanniae scriptorum summarium
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Bale (John)
Bale (John)
(1495–1563)
English protestant churchman; bishop of Ossory (1552/3); antiquarian and collector of manuscripts; author of a number of polemical plays, such as Kynge Johan, and an autobiographical work called The Vocacyon of Johan Bale.

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The first published version of John Bale's chronological catalogue of British and other authors.
Index Britanniae scriptorum
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Bale (John)
Bale (John)
(1495–1563)
English protestant churchman; bishop of Ossory (1552/3); antiquarian and collector of manuscripts; author of a number of polemical plays, such as Kynge Johan, and an autobiographical work called The Vocacyon of Johan Bale.

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John Bale's catalogue of British and other authors as it appears in his notebook. Unlike his two published catalogues, this version is alphabetically arranged.
Insulae Sandae brevis descriptio (Edmund MacCana)
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MacCana (Edmund)
MacCana (Edmund)
(fl. 1640s)
A Franciscan friar known chiefly as the author of an Itinerary of Ireland (written in c.1644) and an account of Sanda Island.

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Latin account of Sanda Island by the Franciscan friar Edmund MacCana.
Itinerarium in Hibernia (Edmund MacCana)
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MacCana (Edmund)
MacCana (Edmund)
(fl. 1640s)
A Franciscan friar known chiefly as the author of an Itinerary of Ireland (written in c.1644) and an account of Sanda Island.

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A Latin account of an itinerary through Ireland written in mid-1640s by the Franciscan friar Edmund MacCana.
Ogygia seu rerum Hibernicarum chronologia
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O'Flaherty (Roderic)
O'Flaherty (Roderic)
(1627/30–1716/18)
Roderic(k) O'Flaherty / Ruaidhrí (Óg) Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Irish nobleman, historian and collector of manuscripts; author of Ogygia seu rerum Hibernicarum chronologia (1685).

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