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Letter of Florence Mac Carthy to the Earl of Thomond, on the ancient history of Ireland

Author: Florence MacCarthy Reagh

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Proof corrections by Beatrix Färber, Kilian Mallon, Janet Crawford, Olan Daly

Funded by School of History, University College, Cork

2. Second draft, with introduction.

Extent of text: 18400 words

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Sources

    Source
  1. London, British Library, MS Add. 4793, fo. 18.
  2. London, British Library, MS Add. 4821, imperfect transcript of same.
  3. Lambeth, (transcript of 1.)
  4. Dublin, Trinity College Library, (transcript of 1.)
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  19. Emilio Rodríguez Almeida, 'Ad Speculum Britanniae', in: 'Mar Exterior', Actas del Congreso Internacional "El Occidente atlántico en época romana", Pisa, Santa Croce in Fossabanda, 6–9 de noviembre de 2003, M.a Mercedes Urteaga Artigas and María José Noain Maura (eds.), Escuela Esp. de Historia y Arqueología en Roma-CSIC (Rome 2005) 13–19.
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    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. John O'Donovan, Letter of Florence Mac Carthy to the Earl of Thomond, on the ancient history of Ireland in Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society, n. s.. , Dublin, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1856) volume 1page 203–229

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Created: by Florence MacCarthy Reagh (1560–1640) (1609)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in seventeenth-century English.
Language: [LA] Some words are in Latin.
Language: [GA] Some words are in Irish.
Language: [GR] Some words (in the editor's annotations) are in Greek.

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