List of Irish manuscripts explained

This is a list of manuscripts produced in Ireland as well as other manuscripts of Irish interest, including both vellum and paper manuscripts.

LibraryMS catalogue no.DateDescription
Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium (Bibliothèque Royale)34101629Paper manuscript.[1]
Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium5100-417th centuryTranscripts by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh from a book written by Siodrach Ua Mael Conaire in 1533.[2]
Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium5301-20after 1643Paper manuscript.
Cambridge, Cambridge University LibraryBook of Deer9/10th century, with later additionsGospelbook of the 9/10th century, with 12th-century additions in Scottish Gaelic. Images
ChatsworthBook of Lismorec. 1500Mainly religious texts.
Dublin, National Library of IrelandG 1 (olim Phillipps 4169)16th centuryParchment manuscript; main scribe: Pilip Ballach hua Duibhgeandáin.[3]
Dublin, National Library of IrelandG 2 (olim Phillipps 7021)14th–15th centuriesParchment manuscript; main scribe: Ádam Ó Cianáin.
Dublin, National Library of IrelandG 3 (olim Phillips MS 7022)
Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin
14th–15th centuriesIncludes Irish verse.[4]
Dublin, National Library of IrelandG 4 (olim Phillips MS 8214)1391Fragment which previously belonged to the core of the Yellow Book of Lecan.
Dublin, National Library of IrelandG 716th century
Dublin, National Library of IrelandG 8 (olim Phillips MS 9750)
Book of Éumann Ó Bolgaoi
16th centuryMedical manuscript on paper and parchment.
Dublin, National Library of IrelandG 10 (olim Phillips MS 10266)16th centuryComposite manuscript on parchment.
Dublin, National Library of IrelandG 11 (olim Phillips MS 10297)2nd quarter of the 15th centuryMedical tracts translated from Latin to Irish, followed by a small section of legal material. Parchment; main scribe: Donnchadh Ua Bolgaidhi.
Dublin, National Library of IrelandG 1200
Book of Magauran / Leabhar Méig Shamhradháin
14th centuryDuanaire (poetry anthology). Main scribes: Ruaidhrí Ó Cianáin, Doighre Ó hUiginn.
Dublin, National Library of IrelandG 1303
Leabhar Í Eadhra (Book of O'Hara)
1597Bardic poetry in Irish. Parchment manuscript.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy23 D 17
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy23 E 29
Book of Fermoy
15th–16th centuryComposite manuscript, three parts: I (pp. 1–16); II (pp. 17–216); III (pp. 217–24). Part preserved as Egerton 92 (see there).
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy23 K 441721–1722Paper MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy23 N 10c. 1575Compiled by scribes of the Ó Maolconaire. Formerly MS Betham 145, after its former owner William Betham.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy23 P 2
Great Book of Lecan
c. 1380 x 1417
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy23 P 31467 (first part)Composite manuscript, consisting of three parts.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy23 P 12
Book of Ballymote
1384–1406
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy24 P 26
Book of Fenagh
16th century
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy23 Q 615th–16th centuryComposite manuscript, five parts.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy24 P 2516th century
Dublin, Royal Irish AcademyB IV 11671–1674Paper manuscript.
Dublin, Royal Irish AcademyB IV 1A17th century?Paper manuscript.
Dublin, Royal Irish AcademyB IV 21627–1628Paper manuscript.
Dublin, Royal Irish AcademyC I 215th–16th century?
Dublin, Royal Irish AcademyC III 21552
Dublin, Royal Irish AcademyC VI 3early 17th centuryPaper manuscript.
Dublin, Royal Irish AcademyD IV 215th century
Dublin, Trinity College52
Book of Armagh
9th century
Dublin, Trinity College1289 (olim H.1.15)1729–1745 Paper manuscript.
Dublin, Trinity College1291 (olim H.1.17)1755Paper manuscript.
Dublin, Trinity College1298 (olim H.2.7)c. 1340–1350 Irish genealogies, tales.
Dublin, Trinity College1308 (olim H.2.12, no. 8)15th century?
Dublin, Trinity College1316 (olim H.2.15a)variousComposite manuscript, including Senchas Már material written down c. 1350.
Dublin, Trinity College1318 (olim H.2.16)
Yellow Book of Lecan
14th/15th centuryComposite manuscript
Dublin, Trinity College1336 (olim H.3.17)15th and 16th centuriesMiscellany
Dublin, University CollegePsalter of Caimín11th centuryFragment
No. V14th–15th century?
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland No. XLComposite manuscripts (five parts).
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland No. XXVIII14th century?
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland No. XXXVI1690–1691Paper manuscript.
London, British LibraryAdditional 3051215th–16th century
London, British LibraryAdditional 3399316th centuryComposite manuscript: I (ff. 1–19) and II (ff. 20–29).
London, British LibraryCotton Nero A 716th century?Composite manuscript, e.g. Bretha Nemed Toísech
London, British LibraryEgerton 88c. 1564Collection of medieval Irish legal texts, literature, grammatical works and legal glossaries
London, British LibraryEgerton 92Part detached from Book of Fermoy (see Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 23 E 29).
London, British LibraryEgerton 9315th century (part I); 16th century (parts II–III)Composite manuscript in three parts: I (ff. 1–19); II (ff. 20–25); III (ff. 26–35).
London, British LibraryEgerton 1781c. 1484–1487
London, British LibraryEgerton 1782c. 1517
London, British LibraryHarleian 432early 16th centuryParchment.
London, British LibraryHarleian 526016th centuryParchment.
London, British LibraryLansdowne 418e.g. Annals of Duisk
Oxford, Bodleian LibraryLaud misc. 610c. 1453–1454Irish genealogies. Images online.
Oxford, Bodleian LibraryRawlinson B.475early 17th centuryIrish account of the Norman invasion of Ireland, based on an English version of Gerald of Wales' Expugnatio Hibernica; medieval and early modern Irish poems
Oxford, Bodleian LibraryRawlinson B.48814th–17th centuries Includes the Annals of Tigernach
Oxford, Bodleian LibraryRawlinson B.489early 16th century Annals of Ulster
Oxford, Bodleian LibraryRawlinson B.498Irish charters, e.g. of the "Palmer's Hospital" (Priory and Hospital of St. John the Baptist without the New Gate, Dublin); of the Order of Fratres Cruciferi; additions.
Oxford, Bodleian LibraryRawlinson B.4991526Transcripts of deeds of Thomas Court (Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas the Martyr), Dublin.
Oxford, Bodleian LibraryRawlinson B.501Registrum de Kilmainham
Oxford, Bodleian LibraryRawlinson B.502
Oxford, Bodleian LibraryRawlinson B.50311th–15th centuriesAnnals of Inisfallen
Oxford, Bodleian LibraryRawlinson B.506
Oxford, Bodleian LibraryRawlinson B.512
Oxford, Bodleian LibraryRawlinson B.514
StockholmVitterhet Engelsk, II.16th centuryParchment.

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Notes and References

  1. John Corthals, Manuscript Sources to Old and Middle Irish Tales (MS Omit)
  2. http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/keltisch/_private/immurgu-list.html Insular Medieval Manuscripts Reproduction Guide (IMMURGU)
  3. Book: Ní Shéaghdha, Nessa . Pádraig Ó Macháin . Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the National Library of Ireland . Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies . Dublin . 1961–1996 . Studies in Irish Manuscripts.
  4. E.g. Banshenchas; poem beginning A aos dána, is aithnidh damh, for which see Ó Riain . Gordon . Early Modern technical verse from NLI G 3 . . 36 . 2008 . 35–42.