Further Reading and Resources

 

Bolton Blog Posts

• A Good Eye: Future Archbishop William King (1650–1729) in the west of Ireland.
• A Quick Selection of Printer’s Devices: A quick look into some of the printer’s devices found in the Bolton Library.
• Birds, Butterflies and Two-Headed Dragons: The wonderful imaginings of printer Julian Notary (active 1496-1520)
• Bolton Library: Bolted On: A leaf of fragmented manuscript text survives inside a 17th century binding.
• Bolton Library: Bolted On #2: Murder and misadventure in the Middle Ages: a 13th century legal resource preserved by a 19th century bookbinder
• Bolton Library ‘The Unlimited Virtue of Books’: A contemporary reference to a new invention… on the penultimate leaf!
• Bookbindings in the Bolton Library: A closer look at a 16th century roll binding from the Bolton Library.
• Bookbindings in the Bolton Library #2: Panels and geometrics adorn a condemned tome.
• Conservation insights: moving the Bolton Library: The Bolton Library comprises almost two-thirds of a kilometre of shelving.
• Leopards and lions abound in Paris: The title pages and devices of Jean Petit (active 1492–1530).
• Miniatures in the Bolton Library: Get the magnifying class! These miniature books range in size from 5 cm all the way down to 0.5 mm.
• The Bolton Library: Introduction to the Bolton Library Collection at UL.
• Unique items in the Bolton Library: A curious Dublin printing concerning the need to deal with the city’s ‘helpless and indigent children’.

 

Further Reading on our Website

• Access our Research Guide for the Bolton Library.
• Browse our Bolton Library Research Themes A-Z.
• Information is provided here on how to search the Bolton Collection on the library catalogue.
• We have comprised an A-Z list of Online Resources which can be accessed here.
• We have also created a Glossary for Rare Books which can be accessed here.

 

Research Catalogues

Three published catalogues have been produced throughout the Bolton Library’s lifetime:

• Catalogue of the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Cashel (Dublin, 1873) ​The least comprehensive of the three, this catalogue details less than 50% of the collection. It does have one advantage in that it has been digitised in full and is available online.
• Jean Miller’s Catalogue of the Cashel Diocesan Library, County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland (Boston, 1973) Jean Miller worked in difficult conditions to produce this catalogue, working in situ in Cashel photostatting the library’s card catalogue. She added her own notes and findings in places, to produce an invaluable picture of the library as it existed in the late 20^th century.
• Robert Matteson’s A Large Private Park (Cambridge, 2003) Robert Matteson’s catalogue focuses solely on items collected by Archbishop William King, an estimated 5000 of which are now in the Bolton Library.

 

Online catalogues and digitised texts

• For those volumes contained in the Bolton which were printed, principally in the British Isles and/or in the English language before 1801. Digital copies may be available to view through the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), British Library.
• Users may also wish to consult the Incunabla Short Title Catalogue (ISTC), British Library for works printed in any language before the year 1500.
• European manuscript and archival collections arranged by country, Marian Lefferts, Executive Manager at the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL)

 

 

Related collections

• Other texts owned by Archbishop William King are held by The Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library, Ulster University Magee Campus.
• For other collections related to the Church of Ireland, view the Representative Church Body (RCB) Library, Dublin.

 

Further reading and archive collections relating to Archbishop William King

• Robert S Matteson and Gayle Barton, ‘A large private park: the collection of Archbishop William King 1650–1729‘, (Cambridge, 2003).
• Philip O’Regan, ‘Archbishop William King of Dublin (1650–1729) and the constitution in church and state‘, (Dublin, 2000).
• Early catalogue of Archbishop William King’s library, Manuscript Department, Trinity College Dublin.
• For other archival collections relating to King held in the UK, see summary by the National Archives, UK.

 

Online resources relating to rare books

• Incunabla: The Art & History of Printing in Western Europe, c. 1450–1500, Library of Congress

 

Other rare book libraries and resources in Ireland and the UK

• Cathedral Archives, Libraries & Collections Association (CALCA)
• Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS), Limerick
• The Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library, Ulster University Magee Campus
• Marsh’s Library, Dublin
• Robinson Library, Armagh
• St Canice’s Library, Maynooth University