Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1441 Irish Liber hymnorum

Irish, Latin
s. xi^ex–xiiⁱⁿ
Irish manuscripts
vellum

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, Trinity College

Shelfmark

E 4. 2

Classification

Cat. no. 1441

Title

Irish Liber hymnorum

Description

Irish Liber hymnorum, related to Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 2

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish, Latin

Date

s. xi^ex–xiiⁱⁿ

Late 11th – early 12th century.

Hands, scribes

Copies or excerpts

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 24 [s. xviii]

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Table of contents

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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

Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson [ed. and tr.], The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, Henry Bradshaw Society, 13, 14, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.

comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction

Volume 2: Translation and notes

Manuscripts used, with sigla:

T = Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1441 = Liber hymnorum (see pp. x-xiii)
- F = Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 2 (see pp. xiii-xvi)
- 19th-century copy for Reeves (William) (not used by the editors)

A = Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS C 5 inf = Antiphonary of Bangor
B = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 = Leabhar Breac
C = Cambridge, University Library, MS Ll.1.10 = Book of Cerne
D = London, British Library, MS Harley 7653
E = Montpellier, École de Médecine, MS 218
G = St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 2
H = St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 577
I = Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 169 (146)
J = London, British Library, MS Royal 2 A xx
K = cxcv / St. Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 86a/1 (one folio in Karlsruhe)
L = Cork, University College, Book of Lismore
M = Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS M 32 4
N = London, British Library, MS Harley 2965 = Book of Nunnaminster
O = Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 514 (copy of O'Donnell's Beatha Choluim Chille)
P = Basel, University Library, MS A vii 3 (a Greek psalter)
Q = Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 8(?) (another copy of O'Donnell's Life)
R = ccxxi / St. Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 86a/1
S = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 3 = Stowe Missal
V = Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Pal. lat. 482
W = Dublin, Trinity College, MS 80 = Antiphonary of Kilmoone
X = Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 615
Y = Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 505
Z = Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 485
Δ = Cologne MS (formerly at Darmstadt)
Θ = Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512
Π = Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 18665
Σ = Cambridge, St John's College, MS C 9 = Southampton Psalter
Ψ = London, British Library, MS Harley 585

Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link>, <link>, <link> Internet Archive – vol. 2: <link>, <link>

Todd, James Henthorn, Leabhar imuinn: the Book of Hymns of the ancient Irish Church, 2 vols, Dublin: Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1855–1869.

Internet Archive – fasc. 1 and 2: <link> Internet Archive – fasc. 1: <link> Internet Archive – fasc. 2: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de – fasc. 1: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de – fasc. 1: View in Mirador

Windisch, Ernst [ed.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 1, Leipzig, 1880.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – Originally from Google Books: <link> – Vol. 1, part 1: View in Mirador – Vol. 1, part 2: Wörterbuch: View in Mirador

3–58, 321–324 (‘Nachträge aus Handschriften’), 885 ‘Berichtigungen’) Edition of a number of Irish hymns, with introduction and notes.

Stokes, Whitley, and John Strachan [eds.], Thesaurus palaeohibernicus: a collection of Old-Irish glosses, scholia, prose, and verse, 3 vols, vol. 2: Non-Biblical glosses and scholia; Old-Irish prose; names of persons and places; inscriptions; verse; indexes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903.

comments: Reprinted by DIAS in 1987, together with Stokes' supplementary volume.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Wikisource: <link>

298–359 Old Irish hymns and their later prefaces, edited and translated.

Secondary sources (select)

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.

77–78 [‘2.24. Abbreviated psalter of the Irish Liber hymnorum’]

Bieler, Ludwig, “The Irish Book on hymns: a palaeographical study”, Scriptorium 2:2 (1948): 177–194.

Persée: <link>

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>

320–322