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De praesulibus Hiberniae (John Lynch)

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A Latin history of the Catholic bishops and archbishops of Ireland, from early times to his own day, completed by John Lynch in 1672.

Manuscript witnesses

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Dublin, Trinity College, MS 560

Much abbreviated transcript made at the request of William Reeves.

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Carte 172

Transcript.

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Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS 1869

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[ed.] Lynch, John [author], and John Francis OʼDoherty [ed.], De praesulibus Hiberniae: potissimus catholicae religionis in Hiberniae ... authore Joanne Linchaeo, 2 vols, Dublin: Stationery Office for Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1944.

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Muraíle, Nollaig, “Leabhar Ua Maine alias Leabhar Uí Dhubhagáin”, Éigse 23 (1989): 167–195.

Gwynn, Aubrey, “John Lynch’s De praesulibus Hiberniae”, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 34:133 (1945): 37–52.

Brady, John, “John Lynch’s history of the Irish bishops”, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record 65 (January–June, 1945): 227–231.