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76 manuscripts.    
MIrA ID City Library Shelfmark/section Contents Script Dating Origin Categories Images
269AugsburgBischöfliche Ordinariatsbibliothek1Isidore, SententiaeEarly Caroline minusculeVIII ex or IX inAugsburg areaEx*
169BaselUniversitätsbibliothekF III 15dMarius Victorinus; Consentius; Isidore IuniorIrish minusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Embedded IIIF images available
271BaselUniversitätsbibliothekF III 15lIsidore, Differentiae; Gennadius, De Ecclesiasticis DogmatibusAnglo-Saxon minusculeVIIIAnglo-Saxon centre, prob. on ContinentEx Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
46BerlinStaatsbibliothek Preussischer KulturbesitzLat. Qu. 690 (ff 65–188)Augustine, EnchiridionCaroline minusculeIX 2/4 or IX medReichenau? Mainz (circle of Probus)?V
231BerlinStaatsbibliothek Preussischer KulturbesitzMs. Theol. Lat. Fol. 364 (Rose 791)Passiones et Vitae SanctorumIX 3/4prob. N FranceEx
175BernBurgerbibliothek234 (ff 1–53)Cassiodorus, Institutiones; etc.Caroline minusculeIX 2/3FuldaM Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
232BeuronBibliothek der Benediktiner-ErzabteiFragm. 41Abbreviatio Moralium Gregorii MagniCaroline minusculeIX 3/3prob. ReichenauEx
51FuldaLandesbibliothekBonifatianus 3 (Cadmug Gospels)GospelsIrish minusculeVIIIFulda (or Ireland?)Or S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
219Cambridge, Mass.Harvard University, Houghton LibraryTyp. 613 (20688) (ff 1–8)
+ 4 other units
Isidore, Etymologiae (1, 11, fragm.), Interrogationes et Responsiones (fragm.); Arnobius Iunior, Opus Incertum(?), Expositio in Evangelia, Computus; Caesarius Arelatensis, Homiliae (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIII–IXIrish centreS Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
52JenaThüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek1Charisius, Ars Grammatica (excerpta)Irish minusculeVIII exUncertainS V
53KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 18Canon law, incl. Collectio Canonum HibernensisIX 1/4ReichenauT V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
54KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 132 (f. 18) [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium Celticum (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
55KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 132 (ff 86, 91, 92, 97–99, 101–104, 106, 107) [palimpsest old]Old Testament, Prophets (Vetus Latina, Dn, fragm.)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
56KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 132 [palimpsest new] (Karlsruhe Priscian)PriscianIrish minusculeIX 2/4Soissons/NE FranceS V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
57KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 135 (ff 1–105)Bede, Super Actus apostolorum expositio; Glossae in partem Veteris TestamentiCaroline minusculeIX 2/3prob. ReichenauEx Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
58KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 141 (ff 1–26)Explanatio brevis in epistulas Pauli (Rm, Phil, Col, I Th)Caroline minusculeIX 3/3SW Germany (prob. Reichenau)Ex Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
61KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 167 (ff 15/18) [palimpsest old](illegible)MinusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
62KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 167 (ff 16/17) [palimpsest old](illegible)MajusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
63KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 167 (ff 24, 25, 27?, 29, 33?, 35, 36) [palimpsest old](Apparently biblical or liturgical)MajusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
59KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 167 (fol. 34) [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium Celticum (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
60KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 167 [palimpsest new] (Karlsruhe Bede)Computistica; Bede, De natura rerum, De temporum rationeIrish minusculeIX 1/2NE France? (Soissons?) Ireland?Or S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
65KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (ff 3, 5–8) [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium Gelasianum (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIII¹IrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
294KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (ff 14, 15, 17, 18, 21) [palimpsest old](illegible)MajusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
69KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (ff 32, 34, 39, 40, 42) [palimpsest old]Antiphonarium (fragm.)Irish minusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
66KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (ff 33, 41) [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
297KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (ff 43/44) [palimpsest old](illegible)MajusculeVIII—IX or IXIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
298KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (ff 45/46) [palimpsest old](illegible)MajusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
295KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (fol. 16) [palimpsest old](illegible)MajusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
68KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (fol. 19) [palimpsest old]Antiphonarium (Liturgia Sabbati Sancti?)Irish majusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
296KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (fol. 20) [palimpsest old](illegible)MajusculeVIII?IrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
67KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (fol. 35) [palimpsest old]Fragmentum Liturgicum (Sacramentarium?)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
70KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 [palimpsest new]Augustine, SoliloquiaIrish minuscule (& Half-Uncial)IX 1/2NE France? (Soissons?) Ireland?Or S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
71KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 233 (ff 1–40)Commentary on Catholic EpistlesMinuscule, some Alemannic characterIX 1/3ReichenauT V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
300KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekFragm. Aug. 17SacramentariumIrish minusculeVIII ex or IX 1/2IrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
235KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekFragm. Aug. 18 [palimpsest new]LiturgicalIrish minusculeIXClondalkin, IrelandOr S Sb V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
72KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekFragm. Aug. 18 [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium (Antiphonarium)Compressed Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
73KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekFragm. Aug. 19OrationesIrish majusculeVIIIIreland or Irish centreOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
74KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekFragm. Aug. 20Consuetudines Monasticae (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIII–IXIreland (Tallaght)Or S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
75KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekFragm. Aug. 107Figurae ad Chronologiam Spectantes, etc.Insular (Irish?) minusculeVIII exPoss. Insular centre on ContinentS* Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
77KasselLandesbibliothek4° theol. 170 + 4° Mus 77/2–6, 8–10, 12–14Anonymi Scotti Commentarius in evangelium MarciMinusculeIX 2/4S Germany?T Link to images available
76KasselLandesbibliothekTheol. fol. 22Jerome, Commentarii in Prophetas MinoresIrish minusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images available
16LaonBibliothèque municipale447Isidore, EtymologiaeIX 2/4MainzSb V Link to images available
164LeidenUniversiteitsbibliotheekVoss. Lat. F. 30 (Codex Oblongus)LucretiusCaroline minusculeIX 1–2/4NW Germany?Sb
79MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 6235Anonymi Scoti Commentarius in epistulas Pauli; Pseudo-Jerome, In IV evangeliaIX 3/4N Italy (Bobbio?)T V Ex Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
80MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 6302Pseudo-Isidore, De Ordine Creaturarum; etc.Early Caroline minusculeVIII exFreisingT Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
229MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 6398Priscian, Institutiones grammaticaeIX medFreisingEx Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
81MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 6415 (ff 1–45)Donatus OrtigraphusIX 2/4N. Italy (Bobbio? Monza?)V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
82MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 6434 (ff 1–40)Arnobius Iunior, Interpretatio Evangeliorum (incompl.); Jerome, Epistulae (Ad Nepotianum, Ad Paulinum)Early Caroline minusculeVIII exFreisingEx Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
293MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 6434 (ff 41–422)Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (fragm.); Audax. Early Caroline minusculeVIII exFreisingEx T Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
278MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14166 (ff 72–201)Isidore, Quaestiones in Vetus TestamentumPre-Caroline minusculeVIII exRegensburgEx* Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
279MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14248Augustine in Psalmum CXVIII; Hymni; Preces; etc.IX 1/4RegensburgT Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
280MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14387 (ff 14–19)Bede, De orthographiaFrankish (Breton?) scriptIX²W Germany?M Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
238MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14420 (ff 1–20)Bede, De arte metrica, etc.Caroline minusculeIX²Germany?Ex Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
83MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14423 (ff 1–76)Isidore (excerpts); Eucherius, Instructiones; etc.Irish and Caroline minusculeIX²S Germany (Irish scribe)S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
276MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14425Jerome, In Hieremiam prophetamEarly Caroline minusculeVIII/IXRegensburgM Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
84MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14429 (ff 1–62, 64–71, 73–82) [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium Gallicanum (imperf.)Irish majusculeVII–VIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
85MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14429 [palimpsest new]Liber Glossarum (ff 3r–221v), etc.Irish minusculeIX²Reichenau or S GermanyS V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
86MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14456 (Munich Computus)Computus, etc.IX 2/4RegensburgV Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
239MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14497Excerpts from Isidore, etc.Caroline minusculec. 800S GermanyEx Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
277MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14666 (ff 1–54)Consentius, ArsCaroline minuscule and Irish minisculeIX medS GermanyM Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
240MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14715 (ff 1–56)Eclogae tractatorum in psalteriumCaroline minusculeIX²S GermanyEx T Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
88MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14747 (ff 1–62)Commentarius in VII epistulas canonicas; Glossae Latinae-TheotiscaeCaroline minuscule (untrained)IX med or 3/4GermanyM Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
89MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14846Erchanbertus, Commentarius in Donatum; Sortilegia CelticaIX ex/X inLake Constance area?Ex V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
90MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 29300/2Sacramentarium Celticum: Officium MortuorumIrish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
270ParisBibliothèque nationale de FranceLat. 2709Pseudo-Augustine, De quaestionibus Veteris et Novi TestamentiCaroline minusculeIX inAugsburg areaEx* Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
180SchaffhausenStadtbibliothekGen. 1 (Schaffhausen Adomnán)Adamnanus, Vita S ColumbaeIrish minusculeVII–VIII (ante 713)IonaOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
249St GallStiftsbibliothekVadSlg Ms. 317Vita FindaniCaroline minusculeIX/X or XI inS GermanyV Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
1St Paul im LavanttalArchiv des BenediktinerstiftsCod. 86b/1 (Reichenauer Schulheft) Vitae Virgilii (× 2); various notes on Latin texts; Latin hymns; Old Irish poems; Greek–Latin glossaries and grammatical notes Irish minuscule840sNE France (Laon? Soissons?)S V
91TrierStadtbibliothek137 (ff 48–61) [palimpsest old]Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIII²Ireland or Irish centreOr S
225Vatican CityBiblioteca Apostolica VaticanaLat. 13501/XXIV (ff 44–45)ComputisticaIrish minusculeIXIreland? NE France? (Soissons?) Or S V Embedded IIIF images available
222Vatican CityBiblioteca Apostolica VaticanaPal. Lat. 68Glossa in Psalmos (39–151)Insular minusculeVIIIN England (Lowe); Ireland?Or* S T V Embedded IIIF images available
220Vatican CityBiblioteca Apostolica VaticanaPal. Lat. 210 (f. 1)Book-listIrish majusculeIXprob. ItalyS Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
92WürzburgUniversitätsbibliothekM.p.th.f.1 + M.p.th.f.18 + M.p.j.f.7 + M.p.j.f.5 + M.p.th.f.78 [binding]Grammatica (fragm.)Irish minusculeVIII exIreland?Or S
93WürzburgUniversitätsbibliothekM.p.th.f.12 (Würzburg Glosses)Pauline Epistles (Vulgata, Rm, 1 Cor, 2 Cor, Gal, Eph, Phil, Col, 1 Th, 2 Th, 1 Tim, 2 Tim, Tit, Phlm, Hbr)Irish minusculeVIII exIrelandOr S V Link to images available
94WürzburgUniversitätsbibliothekM.p.th.f.61 (ff 21, 24) [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium Gallicanum (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images available
199ZürichZentralbibliothekRh. 73 (ff 1–29)Adamnán, De locis sanctis; etc.Caroline minuscule842ReichenauV

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