General category: Irish manuscripts
Fragment of an Irish antiphonary. Provenance: Bobbio.
- s. vii/viiiin
A copy of a homily on the Gospels by Gregory the Great. It is preceded by five folios which originally belonged elsewhere and contain an elaborate calendrical work, including marginal additions of Irish interest, such as the Martyrology of Turin, an Irish version of the so-called metrical Martyrology of York and miscellaneous notes.
Two small folia containing fragments of a Latin commentary on the Gospel of Mark. The commentary is extensively glossed in Old Irish and to a lesser extent, in Latin.
- s. ix
A copy of the Life of St Gall by Walahfrid Strabo, which may have been produced in the 11th century. The last page is a palimpsest of earlier date and preserves the beginning of the Second Epistle of St Peter, which is noteworthy for its interlinear and marginal Old Irish glosses.
- s. xi
A palimpsest, which is found as the last page of a later compilation (Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS F IV 24). It preserves the beginning of the Second Epistle of St Peter, together with interlinear and marginal (ink) glosses in Old Irish and some in Latin. It has been dated to the eighth century.
- s. viii (?)
Fragmentary manuscript of the Liber quaestionem in Evangeliis pertaining to the Gospel of Matthew. It was destroyed by fire in 1904 and survives only in transcription.
Manuscript containing an autograph copy of the Zoilomastix (c. 1625/6) by Philip O'Sullivan Beare.
- c.1625/6
- Philip O'Sullivan Beare
Irish manuscript miscellany written in 1718 by Seán Mac Gabhráin for Brian Mág Uidhir.
- 1718
- Seán Mac Gabhráin
The manuscript preserves a Latin commentary (a glossa or catena) on the Psalms, arrranged by lemma, and is accompanied by glosses in both Old Irish (25) and Northumbrian Old English (5). For the entry on the text, see Glossa in Psalmos.
- s. viii/ix
Chronicle of Máel Brigte, Marianus Scotus of Mainz.
- s. xi
- Marianus Scottus [Máel Brigte]
Manuscript containing a copy of Augustine’s De trinitate and preserving a number of palimpsests, including a computus fragment with Latin and Irish glosses.
- s. x–xi
Computus fragment, containing excerpts from the Calculus of Victorius of Acquitaine and some Argumenta attributed to Dionysius Exiguus on the determination of Easter. It has been suggested that it originally belonged with another fragment, now in Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS L 22 sup (ff. 146-147), and a flyleaf in Nancy, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 317 (356).
- s. viii/ix (?)
A fragment (4 ff) of Bede’s De temporum ratione, with marginal and interlinear glosses in Early Irish and Latin written by various hands.
- s. ix/x
Epistles of St Paul
- s. viii/ix
A fragment (2 folia) of a copy of Ezekiel from around AD 800, written in Irish minuscule, with marginal and interlinear glosses that are based an epitome of Gregory the Great’s Homilies on Ezekiel. The glosses have been described as a precursor to the Glossa ordinaria.
- c.800
