List of scared vessels and other relics extant in the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The list includes ‘Cross containing relic of the true cross and relics of the saints’, ‘Three large missals’ and ‘a set of gold vestments’. The lists include descriptions, measurements, and details of inscriptions on the various sacred vessels. Reference is also made to the Terence Coghlan Chalice currently held in the Irish Capuchin Archives.
Manuscript Memoranda re books held in the Kilkenny Friary Library. The notes were probably compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Particular reference is made to annotations, marginalia and inscriptions found on the frontispieces of the volumes. Some of the memoranda are very fragmentary and incomplete. Many of the books referred to in the memoranda are now extant in the Provincial Archives. See CA KK/10 for a listing of some these texts from the Kilkenny Friary Library.
Archival reference book for the holdings in the Library of the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The title of the volume (Eason’s blank-index notebook) is annotated: ‘Archivium … fiosrú 1945 – an 14 Márta ‘45’. The final page of the volume contains a map showing the physical arrangement of the stacks in the archive made by Fr. Hubert Grealy OFM Cap. Includes references to ‘capitular enactments’, ‘appointments of guardians and vicars’ and ‘deeds, leases etc’.
Date: 1614 Author: Fr. Cornelius a Lapide SJ (1567-1637) Publisher: [Antverpiae (Antwerp), Apud heredes Martini Nutij & Ioannem Meursium, 1614] Full title: 'Commentaria in omnes Divi Pauli Epistolas' Possibly part of series: v. 1: Ad Romanos et I. ad Corinthios; v. 2: II. Ad Corinthios, ad Galatas, ad Ephesios, ad Philippenses, ad Colossenses et I. et II. ad Thessalonicenses; v. 3: I. et II. ad Timotheum, ad Titum, ad Philemonem et ad Hebraeos.
Date: 1617 Author: R.P. Maldonat, Jesuite, [var. Fr. Juan Maldonado SJ (1533-1583)] Publisher: A Paris, Chez Jean Corrozet, en la grande Salle du Palais deuant les Consultations, M. DC. XVII [1617]. Full title: 'Traicté des anges et démons du R.P. Maldonat, Jesuite, mis en françois par M. François de La Borie grand Archidacre & Chanoine à Perigueux'
Date: 1726 Author: Gerard Boate (1604-1650); Thomas Molyneux (1661-1733) Publisher: Dublin: Printed by and for George Grierson, at the Two Bibles in Essex-Street Full title: 'A natural history of Ireland, in three parts. By several hands. Part I. Being a true ... description of its situation, ... Part II. A collection of such papers as were communicated to the Royal Society, referring to ... Ireland. Part III. A discourse concerning the Danish mounts, forts and towers in Ireland; ... By Thomas Molyneux, ...'.
The volume records the monthly meetings of the committee of Father Mathew Temperance Hall, Church Street. The first page contains a list of the names and terms of offices of the Capuchin friars who acted as president and vice-president of Father Mathew Hall (1893-1943). The minutes refer to routine matters of administration of the Hall’s operation including the elections of officers, financial accounts and applications for the hiring and use of the Hall by various groups. The meeting of 3 July 1935 considered the proposal for the showing of ‘talkies’ (sound pictures) in the Hall. A typescript memorandum to Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., President, about procuring films for the Hall is pasted into the volume.
