Manuscripts

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502

Irish
s. xi/xii + s. xvii composite manuscript
Irish manuscripts
vellum + paper

General
Contents

Identifiers

Location

England Oxford, Bodleian Library

Collection: Rawlinson manuscripts

Shelfmark

Rawlinson B 502

Provenance and related aspects

Language

Irish

Date

s. xi/xii + s. xvii

(A) Late 11th / early 12th century; (B) 1125 x 1150; (C) 17th century.

Hands, scribes

Codicological information

UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.

composite manuscript

Material

vellum + paper

Vellum and paper.

Distinct units

ff. 1–12

Oxford, Bodleian Library,… 1 [s. xi^ex/xiiⁱⁿ]

Copy of part of the Annals of Tigernach.

ff. 19–89

Oxford, Bodleian Library,… 2 (ff. 19-89) [1125 x 1150]

Miscellany.

ff. 13–18 + 90–103

Oxford, Bodleian Library,… 3 [s. xvii]

17th-century paper leaves.

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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.] Oxford Digital Library, Early manuscripts at Oxford University, Online: University of Oxford, 2001–present. URL: <http://image.ox.ac.uk>.

Photographic reproduction. direct link

[ed.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “Mélanges: Early Middle Irish glosses from Rawlinson B 502”, Revue Celtique 7 (1886): 374–375.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Glosses.

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Caoimhín, “Manuscript sources and methodology: Rawlinson B 502 and Lebar Glinne Dá Locha”, Celtica 24 (2003): 40–54.

Celtica – PDF: <link>

Meyer, Kuno, Rawlinson B. 502. A collection of pieces in prose and verse in the Irish language, compiled during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909.

comments: For corrigenda, see Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 7 (1910): 521-522.

Objects.library.uu.nl: <link> : View in Mirador

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.

163–200 (cat. no. 34)

Ó Murchadha, Diarmuid, “Rawlinson B. 502: Dating the genealogies”, in: John Carey, Máire Herbert, and Kevin Murray (eds), Cín Chille Cúile: texts, saints and places. Essays in honour of Pádraig Ó Riain, 9, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2004. 316–333.