This is a list of manuscripts produced in Ireland as well as other manuscripts of Irish interest, including both vellum and paper manuscripts.
Library | MS catalogue no. | Date | Description | |
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Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium (Bibliothèque Royale) | 3410 | 1629 | Paper manuscript.[1] | |
Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium | 5100-4 | 17th century | Transcripts by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh from a book written by Siodrach Ua Mael Conaire in 1533.[2] | |
Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium | 5301-20 | after 1643 | Paper manuscript. | |
Cambridge, Cambridge University Library | Book of Deer | 9/10th century, with later additions | Gospelbook of the 9/10th century, with 12th-century additions in Scottish Gaelic. Images | |
Chatsworth | Book of Lismore | c. 1500 | Mainly religious texts. | |
Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 1 (olim Phillipps 4169) | 16th century | Parchment manuscript; main scribe: Pilip Ballach hua Duibhgeandáin.[3] | |
Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 2 (olim Phillipps 7021) | 14th–15th centuries | Parchment manuscript; main scribe: Ádam Ó Cianáin. | |
Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 3 (olim Phillips MS 7022) Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin | 14th–15th centuries | Includes Irish verse.[4] | |
Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 4 (olim Phillips MS 8214) | 1391 | Fragment which previously belonged to the core of the Yellow Book of Lecan. | |
Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 7 | 16th century | ||
Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 8 (olim Phillips MS 9750) Book of Éumann Ó Bolgaoi | 16th century | Medical manuscript on paper and parchment. | |
Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 10 (olim Phillips MS 10266) | 16th century | Composite manuscript on parchment. | |
Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 11 (olim Phillips MS 10297) | 2nd quarter of the 15th century | Medical tracts translated from Latin to Irish, followed by a small section of legal material. Parchment; main scribe: Donnchadh Ua Bolgaidhi. | |
Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 1200 Book of Magauran / Leabhar Méig Shamhradháin | 14th century | Duanaire (poetry anthology). Main scribes: Ruaidhrí Ó Cianáin, Doighre Ó hUiginn. | |
Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 1303 Leabhar Í Eadhra (Book of O'Hara) | 1597 | Bardic poetry in Irish. Parchment manuscript. | |
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 D 17 | |||
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 E 29 Book of Fermoy | 15th–16th century | Composite 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 Academy | 23 K 44 | 1721–1722 | Paper MS | |
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 N 10 | c. 1575 | Compiled by scribes of the Ó Maolconaire. Formerly MS Betham 145, after its former owner William Betham. | |
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 P 2 Great Book of Lecan | c. 1380 x 1417 | ||
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 P 3 | 1467 (first part) | Composite manuscript, consisting of three parts. | |
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 P 12 Book of Ballymote | 1384–1406 | ||
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 24 P 26 Book of Fenagh | 16th century | ||
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 Q 6 | 15th–16th century | Composite manuscript, five parts. | |
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 24 P 25 | 16th century | ||
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | B IV 1 | 1671–1674 | Paper manuscript. | |
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | B IV 1A | 17th century? | Paper manuscript. | |
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | B IV 2 | 1627–1628 | Paper manuscript. | |
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | C I 2 | 15th–16th century? | ||
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | C III 2 | 1552 | ||
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | C VI 3 | early 17th century | Paper manuscript. | |
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | D IV 2 | 15th century | ||
Dublin, Trinity College | 52 Book of Armagh | 9th century | ||
Dublin, Trinity College | 1289 (olim H.1.15) | 1729–1745 | Paper manuscript. | |
Dublin, Trinity College | 1291 (olim H.1.17) | 1755 | Paper manuscript. | |
Dublin, Trinity College | 1298 (olim H.2.7) | c. 1340–1350 | Irish genealogies, tales. | |
Dublin, Trinity College | 1308 (olim H.2.12, no. 8) | 15th century? | ||
Dublin, Trinity College | 1316 (olim H.2.15a) | various | Composite manuscript, including Senchas Már material written down c. 1350. | |
Dublin, Trinity College | 1318 (olim H.2.16) Yellow Book of Lecan | 14th/15th century | Composite manuscript | |
Dublin, Trinity College | 1336 (olim H.3.17) | 15th and 16th centuries | Miscellany | |
Dublin, University College | Psalter of Caimín | 11th century | Fragment | |
No. V | 14th–15th century? | |||
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland | No. XL | Composite manuscripts (five parts). | ||
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland | No. XXVIII | 14th century? | ||
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland | No. XXXVI | 1690–1691 | Paper manuscript. | |
London, British Library | Additional 30512 | 15th–16th century | ||
London, British Library | Additional 33993 | 16th century | Composite manuscript: I (ff. 1–19) and II (ff. 20–29). | |
London, British Library | Cotton Nero A 7 | 16th century? | Composite manuscript, e.g. Bretha Nemed Toísech | |
London, British Library | Egerton 88 | c. 1564 | Collection of medieval Irish legal texts, literature, grammatical works and legal glossaries | |
London, British Library | Egerton 92 | Part detached from Book of Fermoy (see Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 23 E 29). | ||
London, British Library | Egerton 93 | 15th 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 Library | Egerton 1781 | c. 1484–1487 | ||
London, British Library | Egerton 1782 | c. 1517 | ||
London, British Library | Harleian 432 | early 16th century | Parchment. | |
London, British Library | Harleian 5260 | 16th century | Parchment. | |
London, British Library | Lansdowne 418 | e.g. Annals of Duisk | ||
Oxford, Bodleian Library | Laud misc. 610 | c. 1453–1454 | Irish genealogies. Images online. | |
Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.475 | early 17th century | Irish 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 Library | Rawlinson B.488 | 14th–17th centuries | Includes the Annals of Tigernach | |
Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.489 | early 16th century | Annals of Ulster | |
Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.498 | Irish 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 Library | Rawlinson B.499 | 1526 | Transcripts of deeds of Thomas Court (Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas the Martyr), Dublin. | |
Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.501 | Registrum de Kilmainham | ||
Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.502 | |||
Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.503 | 11th–15th centuries | Annals of Inisfallen | |
Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.506 | |||
Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.512 | |||
Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.514 | |||
Stockholm | Vitterhet Engelsk, II. | 16th century | Parchment. |