The book of obits and martyrology of the cathedral church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin / Edited from the original manuscript in the library of Trinity college, Dublin, by John Clarke Crosthwaite ... With an introduction, by James Henthorn Todd.

Date:
1844
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Credit: The book of obits and martyrology of the cathedral church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin / Edited from the original manuscript in the library of Trinity college, Dublin, by John Clarke Crosthwaite ... With an introduction, by James Henthorn Todd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II. The next page (fol. 2, b) of the manuscript was originally blank, and contains now, only the following note, in the handwriting of Archbishop Ussher: * “ Mortilogium et Martyrologium Ecclesiae Cathedralis S. Trinitatis Dublin. [* Sic appellant libru obituu, seu defunctoru, seu anniversarioru : qui confratrum sc. et potissimum benefactorum dies anniversaries continet.]” The authority of this note has been followed in the title-page of the present publication. III. Next follow (fol. 3-48 of the manuscript) the Obits, which will be found pp. 5-59 of the present work. The entries in this part of the volume are of various ages and hands, the oldest being of the fifteenth, and the latest of the sixteenth century. There are four days on each page of the manuscript, at equal intervals, the intervening spaces having been left for subsequent entries; these spaces, many of which are now filled up, are something more than two inches in length, ruled generally in twelve lines, between the commencements of each day. The golden numbers, Sunday letters, and days of the month, are in a different ink, and in a more regular and careful hand than any of the obituary notices. Many of the obits are evidently copied from some older document of the same kind; for example, the entry on the first of January is all in a hand, or rather in two hands (for the last obit is evidently later than the rest), of the fifteenth century; and yet it contains the obit of Malachy, Bishop of Kildare, who died in the year 1176. A si- milar instance will be found at the 12th of August, where we have, also in a hand of the fifteenth century, the obit of the Prior Ger- vasius, who died in 1177. See also 2 Non. Maii, where the obits of Donatus, the first Bishop of Dublin, who died in 1074, and of Fulco, Archbishop of Dublin, who died in 1271, are entered in a hand of