About MIrA

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

Additions, corrections, suggestions welcome: padraic.moran@universityofgalway.ie.

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).
  • 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:

  • 0.6.1 (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.

View source code and data at: https://github.com/padraicmoran/MIrA

Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks to the following for additions, corrections and suggestions:

  • Jacopo Bisagni
  • Lily Forrest
  • Truc Ha Nguyen
  • Zdzisław Koczarski
  • David Stifter
  • Immo Warntjes
  • Brega Webb