Edmond Mulhollan
A Bible inscription printed by William Reeves names Edmundi Mulhollan in County Antrim in 1750 and gives the Irish form Emunn Ua Mhaolcallan.
Names in the records
Edmundi Mulhollan; Emunn Ua Mhaolcallan
A note at the end of Deuteronomy
William Reeves recorded that, on a blank page at the end of Deuteronomy in the Irish Bible found with the bell, a note in the same hand as the ownership inscription recorded the death of Edmund’s father, Bernard Mulhollan, in 1758.
Deuteronomy contains passages concerning care for people in need, including strangers, orphans and widows. Was the choice of this place in the Bible deliberate, or was the blank page simply convenient? Reeves records the location but does not say why it was chosen. The question invites readers to consider the passage beside the family note.
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“On a blank page at the end of Deuteronomy”
William Reeves, Five Chromolithographic Drawings … (1850), p. 3, note s. Reeves reports the note as written in the same hand as Edmund’s ownership inscription.
Read Deuteronomy 24:17–22 → · Read Deuteronomy 26:12–13 →
These passages are elsewhere in Deuteronomy; the location of the note does not establish that Edmund selected either passage.
The record
The research identifies Edmond as Henry’s father and Bernard’s son, drawing on nineteenth-century accounts.
Source: William Reeves, Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore (1847), p. 375, note r. Reeves prints the inscription in a note; the site reproduces the text recorded in the research.View source extract and citation
Ex libris Edmundi Mulhollan, in comitatu Antrim, Anno Domini 1750 — Emunn Ua Mhaolcallan