Manuscripts
Manuscript:
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 59 (A 4. 23) = Book of Dimma
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Jaski, Bart, “Dianchride and the Book of Dimma”, Peritia 32 (2021): 115–132.
abstract:
The Book of Dimma is an Irish pocket gospel book dated to the (late) eighth century. Recent scholarly views are that the first three gospels were commissioned by Dianchride of the Múscraige near Roscrea (or even written by him); that the name of the scribe Dimma that was written over erasures was a fraud inspired by a hagiographical tale in the Life of St Crónán of Roscrea; and that it is unknown when the Gospel of John was added to the other three gospels. These and other views are challenged and alternative explanations are proposed.
Gillis, John, and Bernard Meehan, “Examining the Book of Dimma, the scribe Dianchride and Gospel of John”, in: Rachel Moss, Felicity OʼMahony, and Jane Maxwell (eds), An Insular odyssey: manuscript culture in early Christian Ireland and beyond, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017. 86–113.
Sharpe, Richard, “Medieval manuscripts found at Bonamargy friary and other hidden manuscripts”, Studia Hibernica 41 (2015): 49–85.
abstract:
The well-documented story that four manuscripts were found during building work in the ruins of Bonamargy friary in or before 1822 is tested and found not to fit the assumptions that have been brought to it. The books could not have been old Franciscan books, hidden by the friars, and it is not even apparent that they were deliberately hidden. Other manuscripts now known have stories about their hiding or their discovery, and some are patently false, others become doubtful when probed, such that the idea of deliberate hiding of manuscripts is scarcely credible. The Book of Lismore was found, neglected, it appears, in Lismore castle. The Domnach Airgid was, apparently hidden as a relic and retrieved soon afterwards at the time of the Williamite war. The Book of Dimma was never hidden, and the manuscripts at Cong may have been lost long before the story told about them. The finding of the Stowe Missal in an old wall is a story not attested before Eugene O’Curry (1841), who had shortly before worked on the Book of Lismore. The Bonamargy books remain unexplained.
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.
633 [A I (b)] “458. The Book of Dimma”
Phair, P. B., “Betham and the older Irish manuscripts”, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 92:1 (1962): 75–78.
Abbott, T. K., and E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of the Irish manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co, 1921.
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1–5 Abbott, T. K., “52; 58–60; 77; 574; 580; 582; 591; 804”
TCD MSS 52 (p. 1); 58 (1); 59 (2); 60 (3); 77 (3); 574 (p. 3); 580 (3); 582 (4); 591 (4); 804 (4)
330–367 Gwynn, E. J., [Supplement] “59; 804; 1106; 1136–1137; 1280–1281; 1283–1289; 1291–1292; 1296–1298; 1304–1311; 1313–1319; 1321; 1323; 1325–1326; 1328; 1331; 1333–1337; 1340–1341; etc.”
59; 804; 1106; 1136; 1137; 1287 (p. 330); 1280; 1281; 1283; 1284 (p. 331); 1285 (pp. 331-332); 1286 (p. 332); 1287 (pp. 332-333); 1288 (p. 333); 1289 (pp. 333-334); 1291; 1292 (p. 335); 1296; 1297 (p. 336); 1298 (pp. 336-337); 1304; 1305; 1306; 1307; 1308; 1309; 1310 (p. 338); 1311; 1313; 1314; 1315 (p. 339); 1316 (pp. 340-341); 1317 (pp. 341-342); 1318 (pp. 342-348); 1319 (pp. 348-352); 1321; 1323 (p. 352); 1325 (p. 353); 1326 (pp. 353-354); 1328; 1331; 1333 (p. 354); 1334 (pp. 354-355); 1335 (p. 355); 1336 (pp. 355-358); 1337 (pp. 358-362); 134o (pp. 362-363); 1341 (p. 363); 1343 (p. 364); 1344; 1345; 1346 (p. 365); 1347; 1348; 1351; 1360; 1361; 1374; 1381; 1382; 1406 (p. 366); 1416; 1421; 1423; 1435; 1436 (p. 367)
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.
Gilbert, John T. [ed.], Facsimiles of national manuscripts of Ireland, vol. 1: Part 1, Dublin: Public Record Office of Ireland, 1874.
Betham, William, Irish antiquarian researches, 2 vols, vol. 1, Dublin: William Curry, Jun. & Co., 1826.
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39–108 “Leabhar Dhimma”
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