Manuscripts

Dublin, Marsh’s Library, MS Z 3.1.5 Codex Kilkenniensis (or Ardmachanus)

  • Latin
  • s. xv
  • Irish manuscripts
  • vellum
Manuscript containing the so-called Dublin collection of Irish saints’ lives written in Latin
Identifiers
Location
Shelfmark
Z 3.1.5
Title
Codex Kilkenniensis (or Ardmachanus)
Type
legendaries
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
s. xv
15th century
Hands, scribes
Copies or excerpts
Codicological information
Material
vellum
Foliation
122 ff. (ff. 33-35, 39-99, 101-135, 135a, 136, 138-152, 154-[159])
Palaeographical information
Script
Category: Gothic scripts
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.

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.] “Archbishop Marsh’s Library”, 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, 2012–present. URL: <https://www.isos.dias.ie/collection/marsh.html>.

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Macháin, Pádraig, “Archbishop Marsh's Library: MS Z 3.1.5 (‘Codex Kilkenniensis’)”, 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, 2012–. URL: <https://www.isos.dias.ie/MARSH/MS1_Z_3_1_5.html>. 
Summary description of Dublin, Marsh's Library, MS Z 3.1.5
Sharpe, Richard, Medieval Irish saints’ lives: an introduction to Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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April 2014, last updated: November 2022