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  • 1540/1542?–1632
  • Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gloucester Hall
English mathematician and antiquary.

Public library founded in 1771 by archbishop Richard Robinson.

Public library, which opened in Royal Avenue in 1888, then as the Free Public Library, and was originally run by Belfast Corporation (for some time as part of Belfast Free Public Library, Art Gallery and Museum). Since 2009, it is run by Libaries NI (Northern Ireland Library Authority). In 1989, it acquired Irish-language manuscripts (Bryson & MacAdam manuscripts) which were previously owned by the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society and kept for some time in the Ulster Museum.

Diocesan and Collegiate Library of St. Malachy’s College.

The library, formerly the Cathedral Library, is housed in the chapter house that stands on the precincts of the Church of Ireland St Patrick’s Cathedral. It holds a collection of early printed books, maps and manuscripts first assembled by Theophilis Bolton, archbishop of Cashel between 1730 and 1744.

  • 1570/71–1631
  • Conington ... Huntingdonshire
Sir Robert Bruce, 1st baronet, of Connington Hall, was an English politician, antiquary and collector of manuscripts, who established the Cotton library.
  • c.1530–1603/1604
  • Fleury, Orléans
French jurist and scholar of Orléans, who in 1562 managed to rescue a large collection of manuscripts of the library of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire) after it was sacked by the Huguenots. After he died, his library was purchased by the scholars Jacques Bongars and Paul Petau and over time, many of the medieval manuscripts ended up in Bern or the Vatican.
  • 1871–1926
  • Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Cwrt Mawr
Welsh scholar and librarian at the National Library of Wales.

al. Durham Dean and Chapter Library, library of Durham Cathedral.

  • 1921–1970
  • Carmarthenshire
Welsh scholar of medieval Latin and librarian of the National Library of Wales.
  • d. 17 March 1916
  • Cork, University College, Ring, Coláiste na Rinne Library
Irish priest, scholar and language activist; first professor of Irish in University College Cork.
Hywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch was a fourteenth century Welsh scribe. He was a man with clerical training who knew Latin and was able to edit and organize a book. He also wrote lawbooks.  Hywel Fychan is most famous for being the chief scribe of the Red Book of Hergest (Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111). He is also connected to Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 11; Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 27 (Llyfr Coch Talgarth); and Philadelphia, Library Company, MS 8680.O. He furthermore made a contribution to the Culchwch ac Olwen-text of the White Book of Rhydderch (Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 4-5) on folio 83v.

Library belonging to the Franciscan House of Studies, Killiney. For the A-collection of manuscripts formerly kept in Killiney, but transferred in 2000 to UCD, see Dublin, University College Archives.

The special collections are in the Sydney Jones Library.

Librarian of the Bodleian Library of Oxford University

The merged John Rylands and University Libraries, now collectively known as the University of Manchester Library.

  • 1638–1713
English churchman in the Church of Ireland, who served as bishop of Ferns and Leighlin (1683–1689), archbishop of Cashel (1691–1694), archbishop of Dublin (1694–1703) and finally as archbishop of Armagh (1703–1713). He founded Marsh's Library in Dublin.
The Russell Library at NUI Maynooth holds the collections of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, notably those of John Murphy (d. 1847), Eugene O’Curry (d. 1862) and Laurence Renehan (d. 1857).

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