RIA B iv 2. 17th century. Paper
This is a miscellaneous collection of texts, unsigned, but in the distinctive hand of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh. It was transcribed by him in 1627-8 and contains nine poems from the Book of Leinster transcribed in the friary at Kildare in October 1627. It provides clear evidence that Ó Cléirigh was collecting material on the secular history of Ireland several years before he and his associates commenced writing the Annals of the Four Masters. By 1672 the notebook was in the possession of Roderic O'Flaherty who added marginal notes and in the mid-eighteenth century it came into the ownership of Charles O'Conor of Belanagare. It was in the collection of the Duke of Buckingham at Stowe and was placed in the Royal Irish Academy collection in 1883.
