Topographia Hyberniae

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giraldus Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?
Language:Latin
Published: [Ireland] [1280]
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Collection:Benjamin Iveagh
Description
Item Description:377
Physical Description:27 leaves ill. 35 cm.
Binding Note:Binding: Eighteenth century quarter morocco with marbled sides. Preserved in vellum box, with marbled sides.
Bibliography:Manuscript 6 (paper) 17 (vellum) 4 (paper) leaves. Initials in the vellum section are in red and blue, some of them illuminated. Provenance: Phillips Middle Hill mark and No. 2778, cancelled and replaced by 26642, and in another hand, 1349.981. See Benjamin Guinness correspondence with Rev. F.X. Martin in archival envelope, together with an offprint of Martin's article on Giraldus Cambrensis 'Studies' Vol. 58 (1969) 279-292, a photocopy from Thorndike's History of Magic and experimental Science, as well as the bookseller's note. Bound with Descriptio Cambriae and Edmund Campion's 'Two Bookes of the Histories of Ireland' See digital version at http://www.isos.dias.ie/english/index2.html D5 AR170