Manuscripts

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

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

General
Texts

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, University College Archives

Collection: Franciscan A: Irish-language manuscripts

Shelfmark

Franciscan A 2

Title

Irish Liber hymnorum

Description

Irish Liber hymnorum, related to Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1441

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish, Latin

Date

s. xi^ex/xiiⁱⁿ

Late 11th / early 12th century.

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

Material

vellum

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.

[ed.] 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>

[dig. img.] “University College Dublin”, 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/ucd.html>.

direct link

Secondary sources (select)

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

Persée: <link>

Stokes, Whitley, The tripartite Life of Patrick: with other documents relating to that saint, 2 vols, vol. 1, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, 89.1, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1887.

Internet Archive: <link>, <link>

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