Annals of St Mary's, Drogheda

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Latin annals associated with St Mary’s abbey, Drogheda. The original does not survive, but a transcript of entries covering events between 1388 and 1501 was made by James Ware (Rawl. 488).

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 488/ff. 40-53

rubric: Annales* Ecclesiae (ut videtur) B. Mariae Pontanensis sive de Drogheda / * Ex Annalibus Pontanensibus incipit: 1388. Facta fuit domus infirmorum iuxta ecclesiam B. Petri de Drogheda

Latin annals running from 1388 to 1501.

f. 40[35]r–f. 41[36]r

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 488/ff. 40-53

rubric: Annales* Ecclesiae (ut videtur) B. Mariae Pontanensis sive de Drogheda / * Ex Annalibus Pontanensibus incipit: 1388. Facta fuit domus infirmorum iuxta ecclesiam B. Petri de Drogheda

ff. 40r–41r

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[tr.] Mac Iomhair, Diarmuid, “Two old Drogheda chronicles”, Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society 15 (1961): 88–95.

93–95 An English translation from the Latin as well as the portions that are in English in the original (given in italics).

Secondary sources (select)

McNeill, Charles, “Rawlinson manuscripts (Class B) [Report on manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford]”, Analecta Hibernica 1 (March, 1930): 118–178.

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