Item 7 - Draft Article by Fr. Richard Henebry

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IE CA CP/3/3/2/7

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Draft Article by Fr. Richard Henebry

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  • c.1910 (Creation)

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10 pp; Typescript

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(18 September 1863-17 March 1916)

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A draft text by Fr. Richard Henebry on a vellum manuscript held in the Royal Irish Academy. The text appears to be an astronomical and medical text (catalogued as MS B ii 1) dating to the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Henebry refers to the frontispiece of this text which contains an ‘astronomical rotula with a moveable index, containing [the] names of the Signs of the Zodiac and the planets in Latin; also the names of the months and the numeral figures’.

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      This manuscript has been digitized by the Irish Script on Screen resource and is available to view (with notes and commentary) at https://www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_B_ii_1.html#4

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