Manuscripts

General category: Irish manuscripts

Results (1101–1125/1298)
The present classification is only rudimentary. It will ultimately be replaced by a new system with greater care for data concerning each manuscript’s date, origin and provenance.
  • 1773-1774
  • Seán Lúid, Seamus Boinbhiol, Aindrias Mac Mathghamhna, Diarmaid Ó Maolchaoine
  • s. xviii
  • Séamus Ó Broin
Not yet published.

Early 19th-century Irish manuscript containing (a) a portion of James Scurry's unpublished edition of the Annals of Tigernach, written in his hand, and (2) in another hand, the life of St Cailín and some verse, which are parallelled in the Book of Fenagh (RIA MS 23 P 26).

  • 1824
  • James Scurry
  • 1516-1518
  • Ó Maoil Chonaire family
Not yet published.
  • c.1459/1460
Not yet published.

Illuminated Irish gospel codex probably produced at Armagh in the 12th century.

  • s. xii1

Twelfth-century Irish gospelbook written at Armagh by Máel Brigte úa Máel Úanaig, including an interlinear and marginal commentary on parts of the Gospels (glosses and some notes), with four Irish poems and a number of single-quatrain verses, a scribal colophon, and two portraits of Evangelist symbols (Mark and Luke).

  • s. xii1
  • Máel Brigte húa Máel Úanaig
  • s. xvi1
  • Giolla Riabhach mac Tuathail Ó Cléirigh
London, British Library, MS Harley 5280

Seven paper leaves which have been inserted at the beginning of BL MS Harley 5280. They contain four Latin tracts in an early 17th-century hand which Robin Flower has ascribed to Hugo Casserly (anglicised form of Mac Casarlaigh), who owned the vellum manuscript and may also have authored or compiled the Latin texts he added.

  • s. xvii
  • Hugo Casserly
London, British Library, MS Lansdowne 1197
Not yet published.
  • s. xvi
Not yet published.
  • s. xiiiex/xivin
Not yet published.

Contemporary copy of the Book of Howth (Lambeth Palace, MS 623) compiled by Christopher St Lawrence, seventh baron Howth (d. 1589).

  • s. xvi2
Not yet published.

Collection of notes, including poems, relating to the history of Ireland, compiled during the reign of Elizabeth I in the second half of the 16th century (c.1560x1579) by Christopher St Lawrence, seventh baron Howth (d. 1589).

  • s. xvi2
London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1229
Not yet published.

Two leaves of a bilingual Irish-Latin commentary on the Gospel of Matthew.

  • s. x

An Irish manuscript of the Four Gospels, which was commissioned or written by Máel Brigte mac Tornáin (d. 927), abbot of Armagh, for whom the gospelbook is named. A later inscription provides evidence that it had found its way into England by the early 10th century and that Æthelstan, king of England (r. 924-939), apparently its owner, donated it to Christ Church, Canterbury.

  • s. ixex/xin
  • Máel Brigte mac Tornáin, Koenwald [bishop of Worcester]

A Latin bible, produced in England or perhaps in Ireland. Irish verses are found on f. 375/376v.

  • s. xiii