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Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.2
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, watermarked 1796, was compiled by and for Dr Donald Smith when in Ireland circa 1798. Scribes:
(a) anonymous, Roman hand;
(b) Toirdhealbhach Maguidhir (Terence McGuire), Gaelic hand;
(c) Dr Donald Smith, Roman hand. Terence Mcguire’s work at part II pages 17-90, written in 1798 (cf. pages 17, 45, 69) reproduces material written by him in 1788 at Royal Irish Academy 1185 (24 C 55), pages 159-175, and in 1789 at Royal Irish Academy 1074 (24 P 29),...
Dates:
[Circa 1798.]
Manuscript containing a collection of ballads and other poems
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘La Complainte de Nature a L`Alchymiste’ by Jean Perréal, followed (folio 18) by ‘La Response de l’Alchymiste’. Printed in ‘La Roman de la Rose’, iv, pages 123-202. It omits the prologue and a number of lines throughout, and the last 187 lines of the ‘Response’ are replaced by the last forty lines of the ‘Complainte’. For a discussion of the poem and its authorship, see A Vernet in ‘Bibliothèque d`Humanisme et Renaissance’, iii,...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.2
Dates:
1748, 1806, undated.