Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters, From the Earliest Period to the Year 1616, Vol. 1: Edited From Mss. In the Library of the Royal Irish Academy and of Trinity College, Dublin, Wit

Excerpt from Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters, From the Earliest Period to the Year 1616, Vol. 1: Edited From Mss. In the Library of the Royal Irish Academy and of Trinity College, Dublin, With a Translation, and Copious Notes Before concluding these preliminary remarks, it will be necessary to give some account of the antiquaries by whom these Annals were compiled, and who are now known as the four masters, although it is evident they never themselves assumed the name. That title was first given them by Colgan, who explains his reasons for so doing, in the preface to his Acta Sanctorum, to be presently cited; to which we may add, that Quatuor M agistri had been long previously applied by the medical writers of the middle ages to the four masters of the medical sciences, and that this circumstance probably suggested to Colgan the appellation he has given to the compilers of these Annals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.