Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 52 Book of Armagh (Liber Ardmachanus)

Latin, Irish
c. 807
Irish manuscripts
vellum

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, Trinity College

Classification

Cat. no. 52

Title

Book of Armagh (Liber Ardmachanus)

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin Secondary: Irish

Date

c. 807

c. 807.

Origin, provenance

Origin: Ard Macha

Ard Macha ... Armagh

County Armagh

No short description available

Hands, scribes

include Fer Domnach

Hands indexed:

Fer Domnach Fer DomnachFer Domnach

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

Patron

Torbach mac GormáinTorbach mac Gormáin

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

Torbach, identified with Torbach mac Gormáin

Codicological information

Material

vellum

Dimensions

19.5 cm × 14.5 cm

Foliation

222 ff.

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

[facs. ed.] Gwynn, E. J. [ed.], Book of Armagh: the Patrician documents, Facsimiles in Collotype of Irish Manuscripts, 3, Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1937.

Facsimile edition.

[ed.] Bieler, Ludwig [ed. and tr.], The Patrician texts in the Book of Armagh, Scriptores Latini Hiberniae, 10, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1979.

[ed.] Gwynn, John [ed.], Liber Ardmachanus: The book of Armagh, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co, 1913.

Confessio.ie: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Harvey, Anthony [project leader], Jane Conroy [principal investigator], and Franz Fischer [principal researcher], Saint Patrick’s Confessio Hypertext Stack Project, Online: Royal Irish Academy, 2009–present. URL: <http://www.confessio.ie>.

direct link

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

93–97

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>

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