Fred Norris Robinson collection of Irish Manuscripts

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Fred Norris Robinson collection of Irish Manuscripts

circa 1814-1913

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou03526/catalog

Contains seven nineteenth century Irish manuscripts, all in Irish and Gaelic Latin script, collected by Celtic scholar Fred Norris Robinson and bequested upon his death in 1966 to Houghton Library.

.25 linear feet (1 box)

eng, Latn

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11672650

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Robinson, F.N. (Fred. Norris), 1871-1966

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Fred Norris Robinson (April 4, 1871-July 21, 1966), professionally known as F. N. Robinson, was an eminent American Celticist and scholar of Geoffrey Chaucer. Robinson received his B.A. (1891), M.A. (1892), and PhD (1894) from Harvard University, working with the eminent medievalists Francis James Child and George Lyman Kittredge. In 1936, after appointments at Harvard as instructor (1894), assistant professor (1902), and professor (1906), he succeeded his thesis adviser, Kittredge, as Gurney ...