Untitled works or fragments — 17th century; Irish

Title

Untitled works or fragments — 17th century; Irish

Genealogies relating to Ulster and elsewhere, Dinnshenchas Érenn — 14th century (in part before 1373); Irish

Legal collection — 14th century (before 1390); Irish

Untitled works or fragments — 1663–1664; Irish

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. B. 506

Associated place

Ulster

Date

1663–1664

14th century (in part before 1373)

17th century

14th century (before 1390)

Language

Latin

Irish

Contents

Physical extent

111 folios

Binding

Bound for Sir James Ware, 17th century, rebacked.

Acquisition

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.

Provenance

Sir James Ware, 1594–1666 (for this and the following see William O'Sullivan in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature 97C/2 (1997))

Henry, Earl of Clarendon (Catalogus Manuscriptorum Angliae 2/2 no. 56).

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755.

Title

Untitled works or fragments; Genealogies of Ulster; Part of the Dinn-Seanchus, or tract on the etymology of the names of remarkable places in Ireland; Brehon laws

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. B. 506

Summary

Five leaves are added at the end containing the following transcripts made in 1663–1664 by sir J. Ware:

(fols. 63–65) Notes relating to Waterford, and chiefly to John Collyne dean of the cathedral (including his will, 3 Sep 1468), "ex MS. membranaceo, scripto tempore Edw. quarti, Regis Angliæ, olim pertinente ad capellanum capellæ S. Salvatoris juxta ecclesiam cathedralem S. Trinitatis Waterfordiæ;" 1459–1484.

(fol. 66) "Charta Theobaldi Walteri Pincernæ Hiberniæ concessa burgensibus villæ de Balli-gauran;" with a description of his seal.

(fol. 67) Record of the consecration of Christopher Bodekin as bishop of Douay, at Marseilles, 4 Nov 1533.

Date

14th-17th century

Language

Latin

Irish

Physical facet

On parchment, in folio; in two colums, in three hands

Physical extent

63 Leaves

Custodial history

Olim possedit Waræus; postea, "Henricus [Jones] Midensis" episcopus; denique, comes de Clarendon, cod. 56.