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Annals of Ulster (translation)

19th cent. (watermark 1837). Paper. 41 × 16 cms. 168 ff. (unnumbered). Scribe: J. O Sullivan.

This is a copy of the first of a two-part translation of the Annals of Ulster which is contained in two volumes in the British Library (Clarendon Collection, tom. 20, 49, Ayscough). O'Donovan in his introduction to the Annals of the Four Masters, p. xxxiv, where he attributes the original translation to Tuileagna Ó Maoilchonaire, states that a transcript of the BL volumes - of which the present manuscript [covering the years 431 to 1307] is a part - was made for Todd.

A `memo' on the recto of the first folio signed by the scribe, J. O Sullivan, gives the opinion of a Mr. Garnett concerning the unreliability of the translation, thereby ensuring that such errors as it contains may not be attributed to him. O'Donovan used the present manuscript when perparing his edition of the AFM (ibid) and has added a few corrections (signed) in the present text.

A bifolium (watermark 1842) containing the annals for the years 432-67 presumably copied from the present volume and written by an unidentified scribe, is inserted after the first folio. A pencil tracing of a map of Kerry is pasted on the 4th last folio.

Bound in three-quarter leather with `Annals of Ulster' gilt-lettered and `23045', `201' labelled on spine; `1449', `watermark 1839', `C. 1840' and `23045' inside front cover; `J H Todd' on the recto of the first blank leaf; `Phillipps Ms 23045' on the recto of the first folio. Listed under `Rev. J. H. Todd MSS ex Trin. Coll. Dublin' in Phillipps's Catalogus. Purchased by the National Library for £6 from Sotheby 24 June 35.