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Marginalia. Annotations.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes or symbols written or printed in the margins of pages. For scenes or figures in the margins or decorative borders of a page of text, use "marginal illustrations".

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Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.11
Scope and Contents The scribe of the manuscript is Sémus Ó Gribín, who also wrote Royal Irish Academy 24 L 17, Geoffrey Keating’s ‘Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn’. He completed the manuscript in March 1696 for Patrick Logan, schoolmaster at Lurgan. Bound in (folios vi-vii) is a letter dated Lurgan, 17th August 1696, from Logan to an unnamed friend, consigning the manuscript to him for scholarly perusal and ultimate delivery to the Advocates Library. It thus became the first of the Advocates’ Gaelic manuscripts....
Dates: 1696.