Reference code
IE CA CP/3/3/2/7
Title
Draft Article by Fr. Richard Henebry
Date(s)
- 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