Manuscripts

Dublin, Marsh’s Library, MS Z 3.1.5 Codex Kilkenniensis (or Ardmachanus)

Latin
s. xv
Irish manuscripts
vellum

Manuscript containing the so-called Dublin collection of Irish saints’ lives written in Latin

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, Marsh's Library

Shelfmark

Z 3.1.5

Title

Codex Kilkenniensis (or Ardmachanus)

Type

legendaries

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin

Date

s. xv

15th century

Hands, scribes

Copies or excerpts

Maynooth, Russell Library, MS RB 201 [1627]

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Foliation

122 ff. (ff. 33-35, 39-99, 101-135, 135a, 136, 138-152, 154-[159])

Palaeographical information

Script

Category: Gothic scripts

The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

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.] “Archbishop Marsh’s Library”, Anne-Marie OʼBrien, and Pádraig Ó Macháin, Irish Script on Screen (ISOS) – Meamrám Páipéar Ríomhaire, Online: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2012–present. URL: <https://www.isos.dias.ie/collection/marsh.html>.

direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Macháin, Pádraig, “Archbishop Marsh's Library: MS Z 3.1.5 (‘Codex Kilkenniensis’)”, Anne-Marie OʼBrien, and Pádraig Ó Macháin, Irish Script on Screen (ISOS) – Meamrám Páipéar Ríomhaire, Online: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2012–. URL: <https://www.isos.dias.ie/MARSH/MS1_Z_3_1_5.html>.

Summary description of Dublin, Marsh's Library, MS Z 3.1.5

Sharpe, Richard, Medieval Irish saints’ lives: an introduction to Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.