Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 59 Book of Dimma

Latin
s. viii
Irish manuscripts
parchment

General

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, Trinity College

Shelfmark

A 4. 23

Classification

Cat. no. 59

Title

Book of Dimma

Type

gospelbooks

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin

Date

s. viii

Late 8th century, with later additions.

Origin, provenance

Origin: Ireland

Ireland

No short description available

See more Ros Cré

Ros Cré ... Roscrea

County Tipperary, County North Tipperary

No short description available

See more Probably written at the monastery of Ros Cré (Roscrea, Co. North Tipperary), a foundation of St Crónán.

Hands, scribes

Hands indexed:

Hand (Dianchride) Dianchride [scribe of the Book of Dimma]Dianchride ... scribe of the Book of Dimma

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more Specimens (IIIF):

Hand of addition

The name of Dimma is written on an erasure over previous subscriptions and added to another page.

Codicological information

Material

parchment

Palaeographical information

Illumination

includes three Evangelist portraits

Irish manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] Digital resources and imaging services, Trinity College Library Dublin, Online: Trinity College Dublin, 2009–present. URL: <http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie>.

direct link

[ed.] Stokes, Whitley, and John Strachan [eds.], Thesaurus palaeohibernicus: a collection of Old-Irish glosses, scholia, prose, and verse, 3 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901–1910.

comments: Three volumes published between 1901 and 1910: I. Biblical glosses and scholia (1901); II. Non-Biblical glosses and scholia; Old-Irish prose; names of persons and places; inscriptions; verse; indexes (1903); III. A supplement to Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, by Whitley Stokes (Halle, Niemeyer, 1910). Reprinted by DIAS in 1975 and 1987, with Stokes' supplementary volume being included with volume 2.

Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 2: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>

257 Text of the notes.

Secondary sources (select)

Abbott, T. K., and E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of the Irish manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co, 1921.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

2, 330 direct link direct link

Colker, Marvin L., Trinity College Library Dublin: descriptive catalogue of the mediaeval and Renaissance Latin manuscripts, 2 vols, Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1991.

108–110