Manuscripts

General category: Irish manuscripts

Results (26–50/1298)
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.

Acta sanctorum Februarii; includes on ff. 113-134v a copy of John Colgan's third Life of St Brigit (BHL 1455).

  • s. xvii

Manuscript containing an incomplete copy of the Collectio canonum Hibernensis.

  • s. viii2
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 144

Two flyleaves from an Irish manuscript, probably of the 12th century, containing a copy of Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae. The fragment preserved is from Book 2 of that text.

  • s. xii
Not yet published.
  • s. xiii–xiv
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 405
Not yet published.
  • s. xivin ?

Manuscript containing a transcript of Leabhar Branach from an early 17th-century exemplar.

  • c. 1726-1728
  • Mícheál Ó Broin
Not yet published.

So-called ‘Rosenthal fragment’ (1 folio) of the Old Latin Gospel of Luke, 16:27-17:26, written in Insular/Irish half-uncial. It represents VL 44 in Bouron's numbering system.

  • s. viii2

Gallican Psalter, and some canticles and prayers. It is accompanied by glosses in Latin and Irish.

  • s. x/xiin
  • s. xv
  • Donnchadh mac Mátha Mac Cruitín
Not yet published.

A composite manuscript consisting of three sections, (a) A composite compilation of poems on the Uí Raghallaigh (O’Reilly’s), (b) a fragment of In cath catharda and (c) two medical fragments.

  • s. xv.(?) + s. xvi-xvii + s. xviii

Irish manuscript containing a copy of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh's Foclóir na Sanasán Nua (publ. 1643) and Foras focal (73qq).

  • 1685/6
  • Pádruic Mac Oghannan
Not yet published.

Irish paper manuscript continuing the Irish translation of the Old Testament from Dublin, Marsh's Library, MS Z 4.2.3a-b. This volume includes the prophetical and apocryphal/non-canonical books.

  • s. xviiex

Paper manuscript containing an extensive anthology of Irish bardic verse.

  • s. xvii
  • Aodh Ó Dochartaigh
  • s.viii / s. xin

Manuscript fragment (6 folios) which originally formed part of what is now BL, Egerton 88.

  • s. xvi

Duanaire (poem-boek) commissioned by Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir, lord of Fermanagh (1566-1589).

  • s. xvi2/xviii
Not yet published.
  • s. xix
Not yet published.

Autograph manuscript of Ó Mealláin’s journal account of the beginning of the Irish Confederate Wars, covering the years 1641-1647.

  • s. xvii
  • Toirdhealbhach Ó Mealláin