Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 12 R 33 The Cathach of St Columba

Latin
s. vi/vii
Irish manuscripts
vellum

General

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, Royal Irish Academy

Shelfmark

12 R 33

Title

The Cathach of St Columba

Type

psalters

Psalter

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin

Date

s. vi/vii

Late 6th or early 7th century.

Origin, provenance

Origin: Ireland

Ireland

No short description available

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

State of existence

fragmentary

Material

vellum

Dimensions

12 cm × 19 cm

Foliation

58 ff.

Palaeographical information

Script

Category: Insular half-uncial

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.] “Royal Irish Academy”, 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, 1999–present. URL: <https://www.isos.dias.ie/collection/ria.html>.

direct link

IIIF resource: view in Mirador

[dig. img.] Herity, Michael, and Aidan Breen, The Cathach of Colum Cille: an introduction, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2002. vii + 75 pp. + CD-ROM.

incl. digital surrogate available on CD-ROM.

[ed.] Lawlor, H. J. [ed.], “The Cathach of St Columba”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 33 C (1916): 241–443.

Internet Archive: <link>

[facs. ed.] Gilbert, John T. [ed.], Facsimiles of national manuscripts of Ireland, vol. 1: Part 1, Dublin: Public Record Office of Ireland, 1874.

pl. III–IV Facsimile reproductions of four pages.

Secondary sources (select)

OʼNeill, Timothy, “Quills, inks and vellums”, in: Bernadette Cunningham, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, and Petra Schnabel (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009. 45–49.

Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, “The Cathach and Domnach Airgid”, in: Bernadette Cunningham, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, and Petra Schnabel (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009. 1–8.

McNamara, Martin, “Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200)”, in: Martin McNamara, The Psalms in the early Irish Church, 165, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. 19–142.

Reprint.

28–31

McNamara, Martin, “Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600–1200)”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 73 C (1973): 201–298.

264–269

Alexander, Jonathan J. G., A survey of manuscripts illuminated in the British Isles, vol. 1: Insular manuscripts, 6th-9th century, London: Miller, 1978.

28–29.

Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini antiquiores: a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century. Part 2: Great Britain and Ireland, Codices Latini Antiquiores, 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935.

no. 266 [id. 266.]

Esposito, Mario, “The Cathach of St Columba”, County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 4:1 (1916–1920): 80–83.