Data compiled and website developed by Pádraic Moran, Classics, University of Galway (Ireland).

Additions, corrections, suggestions welcome: [email protected].

The list was compiled initially from the following sources (principally CLA and Bischoff in the first instance):

• Bernhard Bischoff, Südostdeutschen Schreibschulen und Bibliotheken in der Karolingerzeit, 2 vols (Wiesbaden, 1940–1980).
• Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden, 1998–2014).
• E. A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores, 12 vols (Oxford, 1934–1971), digitised and updated at Mark Stansbury, Early Latin Manuscripts.

Bibliography

• Alexander, J.J.G., Insular manuscripts, 6th to the 9th century (London, 1978).
• Bisagni, Jacopo, A Descriptive Handlist of Breton Manuscripts, c. AD 780–1100 (with contributions by Sarah Corrigan).
• Bischoff, Bernhard, Südostdeutschen Schreibschulen und Bibliotheken in der Karolingerzeit, 2 vols (Wiesbaden, 1940–1980).
• Bischoff, Bernhard, ‘Irische Schreiber im Karolingerreich’, in René Roques (ed.), Jean Scot Érigène et l’Histoire de la Philosophie (Paris, 1977), 47–58; repr. in Mittelalterliche Studien. Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Schriftkunde und Literaturgeschichte, 3 vols (Stuttgart 1966–1981), III, pp 39–54.
• Bischoff, Bernhard, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden, 1998–2014).
• Bronner, Dagmar, Verzeichnis altirischer Glossen. Vorläufige Version (Marburg, 2013). https://hal.science/hal-01638388/.
• Brown, T. J. and T. W. Mackay, Codex Vaticanus Palatinus Latinus 235. An Early Insular Manuscript of Paulinus of Nola ‘Carmina’, Armarium codicum insignium, 4 (Turnhout, 1988).
• Chisholm, John Edward, The Pseudo-Augustinian Hypomnesticon Against the Pelagians and Celestians: Volume II. Text edited from the manuscripts (Fribourg, Switz., 1980).
• Duft, Johannes and Peter Meyer,The Irish Miniatures in the Abbey Library of St Gall (Olten, 1954).
• Foundations of Irish Culture, online catalogue, http://foundationsirishculture.ie/ (2013).
• Gamber, Klaus, Codices Liturgici Latini Antiquiores, 2nd ed., Freiburg Schweiz, 1968.
• Gneuss, Helmut and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2014).
• Grifoni, Cinzia and Leon Pürstinger, 'Transcription of a Carolingian commentary on the Gospel of Matthew (MS Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 940)' (2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14864831
• Kenney, James F., The Sources for the Early History of Ireland: an Introduction and Guide. Volume 1: Ecclesiastical (New York, 1929, rev. 1966).
• Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini Antiquiores, 12 vols (Oxford, 1934–1971), digitised and updated by Mark Stansbury, Earlier Latin Manuscripts.
• McGurk, Patrick, Gospel Books and Early Latin Manuscripts (London, 1961).
• McNamara, Martin (ed.), Glossa in Psalmos: the Hiberno-Latin Gloss on the Psalms of Codex Palatinus Latinus 68 (Psalms 39:11–151:7), Studi e Testi, 310 (Rome, 1986).
• Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, Clavis Litterarum Hibernensium, 3 vols (Turnhout, 2017).
• Sharpe, Richard, 'Books from Ireland, fifth to ninth centuries', Peritia 21 (2010), 1–55.
• Story, Joanna, Carolingian Connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750–870 (London, 2003).
• Stokes, Whitley and John Strachan (eds), Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus: a Collection of Old-Irish Glosses, Scholia, Prose, and Verse, 3 vols (Cambridge, 1901–1910).
• Vattasso, Marco and Pius Franchi de' Cavalieri, Codices Vaticani Latini. Tomus I. Codices 1–678 (Rome, 1902). archive.org

Version history

Current version:

• 0.6.2 (beta), 13 February 2025. Measurement units converted to cm.
• 0.6.1 (beta), 12 February 2025. 7 new additions: MSS 294–300. Minor corrections.

Previous versions:

• 0.6 (beta), 29 January 2025. New "Miscellaneous" category for minor Irish associations. Minor corrections and additions.
• 0.5 (beta), 29 November 2023. Improvements to maps, network graphs, linked data.
• 0.4 (beta), 18 July 2023. Network diagrams. References for Alexander, McGurk, Trismegistos. New data for dimensions and folio counts (supplied by Lily Forrest). Developments to text, people, places indexes.
• 0.3 (beta), 1 March 2023. Export manuscript list as CSV. Permanent references for multiple units. Minor corrections.
• 0.2 (beta), 20 July 2022. Added data tables for texts, people, places (in development). New charts for page sizes, number of folios. Several minor interface improvements. Several minor corrections/improvements to data.
• 0.1 (beta): May 2021. Initial version. Manuscript list, date chart, libraries map, basic search.

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