Research Catalog

Title

Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library / edited by Bernadette Cunningham and Siobhán Fitzpatrick ; picture editor Petra Schnabel.

Publication

Dublin : Royal Irish Academy, c2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Cunningham, Bernadette
• Fitzpatrick, Siobhán
• Schnabel, Petra
• Royal Irish Academy. Library

Description

xi, 302 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.

Subject

• Royal Irish Academy. Library
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Celtic > Ireland
• Book collecting > Ireland > History
• Book collectors > Ireland > History
• Manuscripts > Ireland > Collectors and collecting

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Nicholas Canny -- Introduction / Siobhan Fitzpatrick -- 1. Cathach and Domnach Airgid / Daibhi O. Croinin -- 2. Stowe Missal / Padraig O. Riain -- 3. Compilations of lore and legend: Leabhar na hUidhre and the books of Ui Mhaine, Ballymote, Lecan and Fermoy / John Carey -- 4. Medieval collections of ecclesiastical and devotional materials: Leabhar Breac, Liber Flavus Fergusiorum and The Book of Fenagh / Maire Herbert -- 5. Quills, inks and vellums / Timothy O'Neill -- 6. Two medieval service books / John Scattergood -- 7. Bardic poetry in the Academy's collection of Irish manuscripts / Padraig O. Machain -- 8. Annals and other histories of Ireland / Bernadette Cunningham -- 9. 'Book of the O'Lces' and other medical manuscripts and astronomical tracts / Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha -- 10. Richard Kirwan's library: an eighteenth-century chemist's collection / D. Thorburn Burns -- 11. Natural history collections / James P. O'Connor -- 12. Early modern manuscripts in English and Latin / Raymond Gillespie -- 13. Eighteenth-century historical sources in English / James Kelly -- 14. Eighteenth-century Irish manuscripts / Breandan O. Buachalla -- 15. Irish manuscripts in the nineteenth century / Padraig O. Machain -- 16. Twentieth-century Irish language collections / Bernadett Cunningham -- 17. drawings in the Academy's collection / Peter Harbison -- 18. Ordnance Survey maps and manuscripts / John H. Andrews -- 19. Charles Holiday's pamphlet collection / Thomas Bartlett -- 20. library of Thomas Moore, Ireland's national poet / Siobhan Fitzpatrick -- 21. John Windele's antiquarian scholarship / Marry Cahill and Aidcen M. Ireland -- 22. Thomas Johnson Westropp / Mairead Ashe FitzGerald -- 23. Princess Dashkova and the Wilmot sisters / Angela Byrne -- 24. Forde-Pigot collection of Irish traditional music / Nicholas Carolan.

ISBN

• 9781904890546
• 1904890547

OCLC

• 315069532
• SCSB-10604140

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library