Item 7 - Draft Article by Fr. Richard Henebry

10 pp; Typescript

A draft text by Fr. Richard Henebry on a vellum manuscript held in the Royal Irish Academy. The text appears to be an astronomical and medical text (catalogued as MS B ii 1) dating to the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Henebry refers to the frontispiece of this text which contains an ‘astronomical rotula with a moveable index, containing [the] names of the Signs of the Zodiac and the planets in Latin; also the names of the months and the numeral figures’.

This manuscript has been digitized by the Irish Script on Screen resource and is available to view (with notes and commentary) at https://www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_B_ii_1.html#4