and especially theology.

In addition to the eighty books dated before 1501, the Marsh collection contains four hundred and thirty books from Italy dated before 1600, twelve hundred English works produced before 1640, as well as another five thousand English books printed before 1700. Marsh's collection also includes Irish manuscripts purchased from Dudley Loftus in 1695. The Loftus acquisition included many works of Irish History, an Irish - Latin Dictionary from 1662, royal grants in Ireland from