Manuscripts
Manuscript:
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 57 (A 4. 5) = Book of Durrow
  • s. vii2/s. viii (?)
McCloskey, Laura E., “Exploring meditatio and memoria in Ireland through the Book of Durrow: manuscript illumination as the intersection of theological and artistic traditions [2018 Barry Prize Winner Précis]”, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 12 (2019): 102–111.
McCloskey, Laura E., “Exploring meditatio and memoria in Ireland through the Book of Durrow: manuscript illumination as the intersection of theological and artistic traditions”, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 11 (2018): 32–59.  
abstract:

Through a detailed exploration of decorated folios within the seventh-century Book of Durrow and a discussion of relevant liturgical literature and referential artistic material from the early medieval period, this article constructs a framework for conceptualizing how early Insular artist-scribes created and understood biblical manuscript illumination. The multifaceted nature of studying and copying liturgical texts directly reflected the popular concepts of memoria and meditatio, committing knowledge to the mind and gaining a spiritual transcendence from the transformative powers of the Word itself. The unification of text and image as exegetical literary device in the Book of Durrow reflected mnemonic and allegoric conventions that stemmed from British, Frankish, and Byzantine traditions proliferated in Ireland via the Columban monastic network. Far from being mere textual decorations, elaborately interlaced carpet pages, stylized initial lettering, and zoo-anthropomorphic motifs echoed emerging theological understanding of spiritual consciousness and demonstrated Irish monastic facility in adapting cross-cultural artistic influences.

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Netzer, Nancy, “The Book of Durrow and the Lindisfarne Gospels”, in: Richard Gameson (ed.), The Lindisfarne Gospels: new perspectives, 57, Leiden, Boston: Brepols, 2017. 166–182.
Bhreathnach, Edel, “Observations on the Book of Durrow memorandum”, in: John Carey, Kevin Murray, and Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (eds), Sacred histories: a Festschrift for Máire Herbert, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2015. 14–21.
Hofman, Rijcklof, “Durrow, Book of”, in: Brian Lalor (ed.), The encyclopaedia of Ireland, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2003. 330.
Howlett, David, “The colophon in the Book of Durrow”, Hermathena 168 (Summer, 2000): 71–75.
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Meehan, Bernard, The Book of Durrow: a medieval masterpiece at Trinity College Dublin, Dublin: Town House and Country House, 1996.
Laing, Lloyd, “The provenance of the Book of Durrow”, Scottish Archaeological Review 9–10 (1995): 115–124.
Werner, Martin, “The cross-carpet page in the Book of Durrow: the cult of the True Cross, Adomnan, and Iona”, The Art Bulletin 72 (1990): 174–223.
Henderson, George David Smith, From Durrow to Kells: the insular Gospel-books, 650-800, London: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
Rössner, Corinna, Das Book of Durrow im Spiegel der Forschung zur hibernosächsischen Kunst, Schriften aus dem Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität München, 3, Munich: Tuduv-Verlag, 1985.
de Paor, Liam, “The Book of Durrow”, in: s.n. (ed.), Great books of Ireland: Thomas Davis lectures, Dublin, London: Clonmore & Reynolds, Burns & Oates, 1967. 1–13.
Kenney, James F., “Chapter VII: Religious literature and ecclesiastical culture”, in: James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Revised ed., 11, New York: Octagon, 1966. 622–744.
630–631   [A I (b)] “455. The Book of Durrow”
Shaw, Francis, “Comments on the editio princeps of the Book of Durrow”, Éigse 10:4 (1961–1963): 300–304.
Bieler, Ludwig, “The palaeography of the Book of Durrow”, in: A. A. Luce [ed.], Evangeliorum quattuor codex Durmachensis: The Book of Durrow, 2 vols, Olten: Graf, 1960. 89–97.
Luce, A. A. [ed.], Evangeliorum quattuor codex Durmachensis: The Book of Durrow, 2 vols, Olten: Graf, 1960.
Powell, R., “The Book of Kells, the Book of Durrow. Comments on the vellum, the make-up and other aspects”, Scriptorium 10:1 (1956): 3–21.
Best, R. I., “An early monastic grant in the Book of Durrow”, Ériu 10 (1926–1928): 135–142.
Lindsay, W. M., “Notes on two MSS from Irish scriptoriums: the Book of Durrow and the Garland of Howth”, Hermathena 18:40 (1914): 44–45.
Stokes, Whitley, and John Strachan [eds.], Thesaurus palaeohibernicus: a collection of Old-Irish glosses, scholia, prose, and verse, 3 vols, vol. 2: Non-Biblical glosses and scholia; Old-Irish prose; names of persons and places; inscriptions; verse; indexes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903.  
comments: Reprinted by DIAS in 1987, together with Stokes' supplementary volume.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Wikisource: <link>
257   “8. The notes in the books of Dimma, Durrow and Deir”
Abbott, T. K., “On the colophon of the Book of Durrow”, Hermathena 8:18 (1892): 199–202.
Gilbert, John T. [ed.], Facsimiles of national manuscripts of Ireland, vol. 1: Part 1, Dublin: Public Record Office of Ireland, 1874.

Results for Book (171)

Welsh manuscript collection of religious texts, mainly in the hand of Hywel Fychan. Other parts of the original manuscript are in Peniarth MS 12 and Cardiff MS 3.242.

  • c.1400
  • Hywel Fychan ap Hywel Goch

Welsh paper manuscript miscellany (268 pp.) in the hand of John David Rhys containing Welsh poetry as well as a vocabulary, a bardic grammar of the Dafydd Ddu recension, the so-called statutes of Gruffudd ap Cynan, a translation of Genesis I, items of biblical and historical interest, etc.

  • c.1579
  • John David Rhys

A late 16th-century transcript of the White Book of Rhydderch

  • s. xviex

The Book of Llandaff is one of the oldest manuscripts of Wales. While its core is a gospelbook containing a copy of St Matthew’s Gospel, it is best known for its many substantial additions in the form of the Lives of St Elgar and St Samson, and various documents (such as charters) relating to the see of Llandaff and to bishops Dyfrig, Teilo and Euddogwy.

  • s. xii1

A collection of early Welsh poetry, including religious poems, praise poems and elegies.

  • c. 1250
  • Black Book of Carmarthen scribe