Acta sanctorum veteris et maioris Scotiae seu Hiberniae sanctorum insulae
By: partim ex variis per Europam ms. codd. exscripta, partim ex antiquis monumentis & probatis authoribus eruta & congesta; omnia notis & appendicibus illustrata, per R.P.F. Ioannem Colganum ...
Contributors: Colgan, John, 1592-1658 comp.; Fouquet, Nicolas, 1615-1680 former owner.; Reeves, William, 1815-1892 former owner.; Kelley, Thomas Hughes, former owner.; Hughes, John Taylor, 1817-1862 former owner.; Collegium Parisiense Societatis Jesu,
Publisher: Apud Everardum de Witte
Published: 1645
Place of publication: Louanii
Language: lat
Number of pages: 906
Subjects: Christian saints -- Ireland -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.; Ireland -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Biography; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Acta sanctorvm veteris et maioris Scotiae sev Hiberniae sanctorum insulae; Acta sanctorum Hiberniae; Acta sanctorum Hiberniae.; Sacrae Hiberniae antiquitates
Notes: Lives of saints whose feast days occur from January to March: vol. 3 of a projected work, Sacrae Hiberniae antiquitates, the second vol. of which, "Triadis thaumaturgae ... acta," was also published (1647).

"Tomus primus, qui de sacris Hiberniae Antiquitatibus est tertius Ianuarium, Februarium, & Martium complectens."

Includes index.

Signatures: a⁶ b⁸ A-2L⁶ 2M⁸ 2N-4F⁶.

Errors in signing: K4, O3 and 2X2 wrongly signed as K3, O2 and 2X[1], respectively.

Initials; tail-piece; marginal annotations.

Burns Library copy: the coat of arms of Nicholas Fouquet, Louis XIV's finance minister, stamped in gold on both covers; bookplate: The John T. Hughes Memorial Collection, Boston College; French royal armorial cartouche stamped on t.p.; inscription on t.p.: Collegii Paris. Societ. Jesu. "Bishop William Reeves later acquired the volumes for his library in Ireland. After his death, they were sold to Thomas Hughes Kelley of New York, whose relative, John T. Hughes, gaves them to Boston College in 1945."--Inserted "Provenance histories".