Manuscripts with Irish Associations (MIrA)

Evidence for early Irish book culture, c. AD 600–1000

This resource (still in development) aims to provide useful information for researchers on early Irish manuscript culture. It currently contains a catalogue of 292 manuscripts from before c. AD 1000 that can be assigned to at least one of the following categories:

Or Origin: Ireland

S Script: Irish

Ex Exemplar: Irish

Or* Origin: Insular (Ireland?)

S* Script: Insular (Irish?)

Ex* Exemplar: Insular (Irish?)

Sb Named Irish scribe

T Text of Irish origin

V Vernacular content

Manuscript libraries

The size of each data point is proportional to the number of manuscripts represented.

IIIF images

The catalogue makes use of IIIF services, where available (for 148 manuscripts currently). These facilitate:

Inline display of manuscript images.
Inclusion of information from library websites (where provided).
Viewing different manuscripts side-by-side, including manuscripts now divided between different libraries, e.g. the Durham Gospel fragment, Eutyches binding fragment, Fleury grammatical miscellany, or Isidore binding fragment.

You can also compare side-by-side two or more manuscripts of your own selection using the Mirador viewer. Watch this short video for instructions:

Linked Open Data

This resource aims to conform as fully as possible to FAIR Principles, making digital assets Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reuseable.

Persistent URLs (URIs) are supplied to identify manuscripts, texts, people and places.
All data is available to download in XML format (from this site and on GitHub).
Wherever possible, data is linked to other Linked Open Data resources.
Data may be reused under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.
Work is in progress to make data accessible in machine-readable format (RDF).