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Scale: ‘1/8 scale’
Sketch plans (with sections) of proposed schemes for alterations to the sacristy of the Church of St. Francis, Kilkenny, by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin. The sacristy is bordered by reception rooms, altar servers’ rooms, confessionals and a vestments’ press. See related correspondence at CA KK/2/4/16.

Scale: ‘½ scale’
Sketches of proposed memorial ‘to be erected by Mr. Geary’ in the Church of St. Francis. Three alternative sketches or ‘schemes’ of the memorial statue or shrine to Our Lady are given by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keefe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin. With manuscript annotations re the costs of the work and installation.

Specification by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keeffe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, of work to be done and materials to be used in the carrying out of the proposed new aisle, porches, and extension to the nave at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.

Date: 1709
Author: Nicolas L’Herminier (1657-1735)
Publisher: Parisiis, Florentinum Delaulne, viâ Jacobaeâ, M.DCCIX
Full title: 'Summa theologiae ad usum scholae accommodate. Tomus Tertius, qui complectitur tractatum de incarnatione verbi divini. authore Nicolao L’Herminier ... Editio secunda primâ dimidio auctior'
Originally published as a six-volume series comprising:
Vol. I. De attributis divinis; Vol. 2. Part 1: De Ss. Trinitate. Part II. De angelis. Quibus accessit brevis introductio ad Scripturam sacram; (Extant); Vol. 3. De incarnatione divini Verbi; Vol. 4. Part I: De gratia Dei. Part II: De justificatione et merito; Vol. 5 Part I: De actibus humanis. Part II: De legibus; Vol. 6 De peccatis. Volume III: 568 pp 20 cm.

Scale: ¼ inch to 1 foot
Technical plan for choir room accommodation and ventilation at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny by Sylvester Bourke, architect, 79 High Street, Kilkenny. The drawing was supplied to the guardian of the Kilkenny Friary. Sheet number: LO.14 (A). Includes sections and elevations of choir ceiling, installations (kneelers) and second floor plan. It is noted that ‘the treatment of the arms of the Capuchin Order as incorporated in the extract grid is to special detail and template and will be supplied as necessary’.

Date: 1552
Author: Terence (195/185-159 BC), [var. Publius Terentius Afer]
Publisher: Parisiis, Apud Ioannem de Roigny
Full title: 'P. Terenti Afri poetae lepidissimi, Comœdiæ: Andria, Evnvchvs, Heavtontimorvmenos, Adelphi, Hecyra, Phormio: ex emendatissimis ac fide dignissimis codicibus summa diligentia castigatæ, versibus in suas dimensiones restitutis, ac variis lectionibus in margine appositis ...: omnium quæ in his interpretum commentariis explicantur, index locupletissimus'.
Physical description: Text surrounded by commentary. The commentators are Philipp Melanchthon, Desiderius Erasmus, Antonius Goveanus, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Vittore Fausto, Pietro Bembo, Aelius Donatus, Giovanni Calfurnio, Adriaan van Baerland, Bartholomaeus Latonius, Pietro Marso, Johann Rivius, Etienne Dolet, Henricus Glareanus, Joannes Theodoricus Bellovacensis and Jodocus Willich; numerous small woodcuts, some repeated, within text (R. Brun, 'Le Livre illustré en France au XVIe siècle', p. 310).

Date: 1791-1797
Author: Francis Grose (c.1731-1791)
Publisher: London, Vol. 1: Printed for S. Hooper, MDCCXCI; Vol. II, Printed for M. Hooper & Wigstead, MDCCXCVII
Full title: 'The antiquities of Ireland'

Date: 1876
Author: Rev. M. Comerford
Publisher: James Duffy and Sons, 15 Wellington Quay, Dublin; and 1a Paternoster Row, London, 1876.
Full title: 'The book of Holy Indulgences compiled from the decrees of the sacred congregation of indulgences and other approved sources'.
Language: English

Date: 1857
Author: James Graves (1815-1886) and John G. Augustus Prim
Publisher: Dublin, Hodges, Smith, & Company, Grafton Street
Full title: 'The history, architecture, and antiquities of the cathedral church of St. Canice, Kilkenny'.
Language: English

Date: 1847
Publisher: A. Fullarton and Co., Dublin, London, and Edinburgh
Full title: 'The Holy Bible; translated from the Latin vulgate: diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions in divers languages; The Old Testament, first published by the English college at Douay, A.D. 1609, and the New Testament first published by the English college at Rheims, A.D. 1582, with useful notes, critical, historical, controversial and explanatory selected from the most eminent commentators, and the most able and judicious critics by the Rev. Geo. Leo Haydock. Volume 2'.