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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 485 Codex Insulensis (MS R1 or R)

  • Latin
  • s. xiv (?)
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum
Identifiers
Location
Collection: Rawlinson manuscripts
Shelfmark
Rawlinson B 485
Title
Codex Insulensis (MS R1 or R)
Type
legendaries
Description
Hagiography
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
s. xiv (?)
14th century (?). Ó Riain dates the manuscript to the late 14th century (1375 x 1394).(1)n. 1 Pádraig Ó Riain, Beatha Bharra: Saint Finnbarr of Cork: The complete Life (1994): 111–113.
Hands, scribes
Copies or excerpts
Codicological information
Material
vellum
Collation
160 folios.
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

Notes

1.
Pádraig Ó Riain, Beatha Bharra: Saint Finnbarr of Cork: The complete Life (1994): 111–113.

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.

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Secondary sources (select)

Ó Cuív, Brian, Catalogue of Irish language manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford college libraries. Part 1: Descriptions, Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, DIAS, 2001.
115–119 [id. 29.]
Ó Riain, Pádraig, Beatha Bharra: Saint Finnbarr of Cork: The complete Life, Irish Texts Society, 57, London: Irish Texts Society, 1994.
Internet Archive: <link>
Sharpe, Richard, Medieval Irish saints’ lives: an introduction to Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Plummer, Charles, “On two collections of Latin lives of Irish saints in the Bodleian library, Rawl. B. 485 and Rawl. B. 505”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 5 (1905): 429–454.
Internet Archive: <link>
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
June 2012, last updated: April 2023
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