Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 58 Book of Kells

Latin
s. viii/s. ix
Irish manuscripts

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, Trinity College

Shelfmark

A 1. 6

Classification

Cat. no. 58

Title

Book of Kells

Type

gospelbooks

Gospel book

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Latin

Date

s. viii/s. ix

late 8th or early 9th century

Hands, scribes

Additions

Charters/deeds are added to pages which were left blank by the original scribe and illustrator.

Codicological information

Palaeographical information

Script

Category: Insular half-uncial

Illumination

Lavishly illustrated

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.] Digital resources and imaging services, Trinity College Library Dublin, Online: Trinity College Dublin. URL: <http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie>.

direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Digital resources and imaging services, Trinity College Library Dublin, Online: Trinity College Dublin. URL: <http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie>.

direct 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>

1–2

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

106–108