Janus: Historical and genealogical poems

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.3079	De Valore Episcopatus Norwiciensis, a summary of the revenues of the see of Norwich, with first fruits and tenths
MS Add.3080	Transcript of Aristotle's Historia Animalium in Greek and Latin
MS Add.3081	Translation of Aristotle's Historia Animalium into English
MS Add.3082	Poems, chiefly on Philip O'Reilly
MS Add.3083	Transcription of Míchél Ó Cléirigh's Focloir no Seanasan Nua (Irish Glossary)
MS Add.3084	Historical and genealogical poems
MS Add.3085	Ulster poems
MS Add.3095	Collections of Irish historical and literary compositions, compiled for Sean Bhailis (John Walsh)
MS Add.31	St Ambrosius: Liber de Bono Mortis
MS Add.3100	Lectures on the satires of Juvenal, given at Gottingen
MS Add.3101	William Black: Biographical notes on eminent seventh-day baptists, and on other observers of the seventh-day sabbath
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Historical and genealogical poems

Title	Historical and genealogical poems
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.3084
Covering Dates	1648 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Three hands. Includes king lists for Ulster, Munster, and Leinster. Most of the poems have been published.

Two scribes appear to have worked together on the main text, the first being responsible for pp. 3-59 l.4, and pp. 144-5, and the second for pp. 59 l.5 - 139, with occasional assistance from the first scribe (eg, p. 87 ll. 23-7). A colophon at p. 123 in the hand of the second scribe, dated 3 July 1648, gives at l. 1 what may be the name of the scribe - Mac Con O'Domhnall - and his genealogy, but is only partly legible due to overwriting by a third hand. This last is responsible for numberous corrections and emendations throughout.

P. 1 is discoloured and only partly legible, but the MS appears to be complete, apart from loss of original binding.

Monck Mason sale, 1858. From the library of William Reeves, bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore (d. 1892). Purchased by the Library from Bernard Quaritch, 27 Feb. 1893 (Cat. 132, lot 388).

General Fund.

Access and Use

In Irish

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Historical and genealogical poems, MS Add.3084

Further information

A provisional list of contents is available in the Manuscripts Reding Room.

Microfilm available

Index Terms

Poems

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