The Dublin Annals of Prior John de Pembridge

An account of Irish affairs, 1162-1370

Bernadette Williams

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781801511865
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: History

When the Dominicans arrived in Dublin in 1224, they established a house on the north bank of the river Liffey next to the bridge where the Four Courts are situated today. Anyone who wanted to enter the city of Dublin from the north, or leave across the bridge, had to pass the gate of the priory. It was in this priory in the mid-fourteenth century that a Dominican friar named Prior John de Pembridge wrote these Latin annals. This is the first modern edition of the annals of Pembridge (1162– 1348), together with those of his anonymous Dominican continuator (1348– 70). In 1884, in a two-volume work entitled The chartularies of St Mary's Abbey, Dublin, Sir John Gilbert printed these Latin annals without an English translation. Gilbert's was a rudimentary edition that did not make use of all available manuscripts. In this new edition, Bernadette Williams, the foremost expert on the Latin annals of Anglo-Norman Ireland, presents an authoritative modern edition of these manuscripts with facing translation. The annals, which cover the period 1162– 1370, provide a unique window into the political, religious, and social character of the city of Dublin, and Ireland more generally.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• List of figures
• List of abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• The Dublin annals: authorship, text and manuscripts
• THE PRIMACY OF THE TRINITY COPY (T)
• THE ANNALS’ DOMINICAN PROVENANCE
• THE FIRST AUTHOR: FRIAR JOHN DE PEMBRIDGE OP
• THE SECOND AUTHOR: PEMBRIDGE’S ANONYMOUS CONTINUATOR
• THE TRINITY COPY: MS 583 (T)
• THE BODLEIAN COPY: LAUD MISC. MS 526 (L)
• T AND L COMPARED
• PEMBRIDGE EXAMINED
• THE CONTINUATOR EXAMINED
• ANTIQUARIANS AND THE ANNALS
• THE ANNALS
• Editorial conventions
• Glossary
• Latin text and English translation
• Notes to the English translation of the Annals
• APPENDIX: List of Marginal illustrations
• Index