Manuscripts
Results for B (1893)

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
  • Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS F IV 12

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
Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS F IV 24

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 (?)

Lives of Columbanus and his disciples.

  • s. x
  • Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS F IV 29

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.

  • Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS G V 2
  • Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS G VII 15
  • Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS G VII 16
  • Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS L IV 4 5 (lost)

Gospelbook from the Irish monastery at Bobbio, where it may also have been produced

  • s. viii
  • Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 413
  • Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 513
  • Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Arch. Cap. S. Pietro E.14
  • Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Barb. lat. 570

A collection of funerary poems and other pieces in memory of Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (d. 1637), written by multiple hands and in a large variety of languages. The poems appeared in print in 1638, in the ‘Panglossia’ section of the Monumentum Romanum edited by Jean-Jacques Bouchard and it is supposed that the manuscript was compiled in preparation for that work. The volume includes a copy, in Gaelic script, of the Irish poem associated with Luke Wadding that appeared on p. 112 of the printed publication.

  • 1637/38?
Not yet published.

Irish manuscript miscellany written in 1718 by Seán Mac Gabhráin for Brian Mág Uidhir.

  • 1718
  • Seán Mac Gabhráin
  • Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Borg. irl. 2
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Chig. C VI 173

Medieval book of prayers, possibly of the Irish community of the Sancta Trinitas Scottorum in Rome.

  • s. ximed