Texts

Kilkenny chronicle

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Compilation of Latin annals for the period 1264-1330 (and a later addition), compiled by Anglo-Irish Franciscans in the 14th century. It consists of two chronicles that originated in roll form. An origin in the Franciscan house of Castledermot (Co. Kildare) has been suggested for one of these.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

London, British Library, MS Additional 4787

Extracts made by James Ware, who added a note saying that his exemplar was a manuscript from the library of George Carew.

ff. 11r–14v

Text

London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A xviii

Transcript of f. 127v.

f. 88v

Text

London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian B xi/ff 126-137

ff. 126r–137v

Sources

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[ed.] Flower, Robin, “Manuscripts of Irish interest in the British Museum”, Analecta Hibernica 2 (1931): 292–340.

Secondary sources (select)

Williams, Bernadette, “The ‘Kilkenny chronicle’”, in: T. B. Barry, Robin Frame, and Katharine Simms (eds), Colony and frontier in medieval Ireland: essays presented to J. F. Lydon, London, Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1995. 75–95.