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99 manuscripts.    
City Library Shelfmark/section Contents Script Dating Origin Categories Images
BaselUniversitätsbibliothekF III 15dMarius Victorinus; Consentius; Isidore IuniorIrish minusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
CambridgeCorpus Christi College, Parker Library279Canon law (Liber ex lege Moysi)IX²ToursV Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
CambridgeSt John's CollegeC.9 (olim 59) (Southampton Psalter)PsalmsIrish minusculelate 10th or early 11th cent.IrelandOr S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
ColmarBibliothèque municipale217 (444) (flyleaf)Sacramentarium Celticum (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIII²IrelandOr S Link to images available
CologneHistorisches ArchivGB Kasten B 148 + 148aCaesarius Arelatensis, Homiliae (94, 102, fragm.)Irish majusculeVII–VIIIIreland (or Bobbio?)Or S
DublinNational Museum of Irelandn/a (Fadden More Psalter)Old Testament (Psalms)Irish minusculec. 800IrelandOr S Link to images available
DublinNational Museum of IrelandS.A. 1914: 2 (Springmount Bog Tablets)Old Testament (Vetus Latina, Psalms 30–32)Early Irish minusculeVIIIrelandOr S
DublinRoyal Irish AcademyD II 3 (ff 1–11)Gospels (Io, excerpta)Irish minusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S Embedded IIIF images available
DublinRoyal Irish AcademyD II 3 (ff 12–67) (Stowe Missal)Sacramentarium CelticumIrish majusculeVIII–IX (ca. 792)Ireland (Lorrha? Tallaght?)Or S V Embedded IIIF images available
DublinRoyal Irish Academy12 R 33 (Cathach of St Columba)Old Testament (Psalms 30.10–105.13)Early Irish majusculeVII¹IrelandOr S Embedded IIIF images available
DublinRoyal Irish Academy24 Q 23 (Domnach Airgid)Gospels (Mt, Mc, Lc, Io fragm.)Irish majusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S Embedded IIIF images available
DublinTrinity College60 (A.I.15) (Book of Mulling)Gospels (Vetus Latina, Mt 26.42–27.35, Mc 1.1–4.8, 5.18–6.35)Irish minusculeVIII²IrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
DublinTrinity College59 (A.IV.23) (Book of Dimma)Gospels (Mt, Mc, Lc, Io)Irish cursiveVIII²Ireland (Roscrea)Or S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
DublinTrinity College52 (Book of Armagh)Muirchú, Vita Sancti Patricii; Dicta Patricii; Tírechán, Collectanea de Vita S Patricii; Patricius, Confessio; Gospels (Vetus Latina passim, Mt, Mc, Lc, Io); Sulpicius Severus, Vita S Martini, Dialogi de S Martino, EpistulaeIrish minusculeIX in (ca. 807)Ireland (Armagh)Or S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
DublinTrinity College60 (A.I.15) (ff 95–98)Gospels (Mt. 26.42–28.35, Mc 1.1–4.8, 5.18–6.35)Irish minusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
DublinTrinity College56 (A.IV.6) (Garland of Howth/Codex Usserianus Secundus)Gospels (Vetus latina, Mt, Mc, Lc, Io)Irish majusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
DurhamCathedral LibraryA.II.17 (ff 2-102) (Durham Gospels)
+ 1 other unit
Gospels (Mt 25.35–fin., Mc, Lc 1–8, 12–22, Io 1–29)Insular majusculeVIIINorthumbria (Irish tradition) or IrelandOr* Or
DüsseldorfUniversitäts- und LandesbibliothekK1: B.212
+ 2 other units
Lathcen, Ecloga Gregorii Magni Moralium in Iob (17); Philippus Presbyter, Expositio in IobIrish minusculeVIIIIrelandOr S
FuldaLandesbibliothekBonifatianus 3 (Cadmug Gospels)Gospels (Vulgata, Mt 1.1–9.27, 11.25–28.20, Mc 1.1–10.1, 12.1–37, 14.1–16.20, Lc, Io 1.1–18.15, 19.27–21.25)Irish minusculeVIIIFulda (or Ireland?)Or S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
GhentUniversiteitsbibliotheek254 (Catal. 445) (fol. 172)Old Testament (Vulgata, Iob 33.24–34.22)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S
Cambridge, Mass.Harvard University, Houghton LibraryTyp. 620 (Rosenthal fragment)Gospels (Vetus Latina, Lc 16.27–17.26)Irish majusculeVIII²IrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (fol. 35) [palimpsest old]Fragmentum Liturgicum (Sacramentarium (?))Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (ff 3, 5–8) [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium Gelasianum (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIII¹IrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (fol. 19) [palimpsest old]Antiphonarium (Liturgia Sabbati Sancti (?))Irish majusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 167 (fol. 38, 40–47, 49) [palimpsest old](Grammatical)MinusculeIXIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 132 (f. 18) [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium Celticum (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 167 (fol. 34) [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium Celticum (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische 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
KarlsruheBadische 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
KarlsruheBadische 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
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 167 (ff 15/18) [palimpsest old](illegible)MinusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 167 (ff 16/17) [palimpsest old](illegible)MajusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (ff 32, 34, 39, 40, 42) [palimpsest old]Antiphonarium (fragm.)Irish minusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekFragm. Aug. 19OrationesIrish majusculeVIIIIreland or Irish centreOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekFragm. Aug. 18 [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium (Antiphonarium)Compressed Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Sb V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 (ff 33, 41) [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekFragm. Aug. 20Consuetudines Monasticae (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIII–IXIreland (Tallaght)Or S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
KasselLandesbibliothekTheol. fol. 22Jerome, Commentarii in Prophetas MinoresIrish minusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images available
KuesHospitalbibliothek171 (formerly binding)Juvencus, Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor (2.289–344, 562–616)Insular majusculeVII exIreland (poss. Northumbria)Or Or*
LaonBibliothèque municipale55 [incl. frag.]Bede, Commentarius in Parabolas Salomonis + (frag.) Augustine, De quantitate animaeIX 2/3Ireland (?); circle of EriugenaOr S Sb V
LaonBibliothèque municipale26 (ff 1–27)Cassiodorus, Expositio psalmorumIrish minusculeIX 1/2Ireland? Irish colony in NE France?Or S V
LeidenUniversiteitsbibliotheekBPL 2391 aBoethius, De institutione arithmetica (frag.)Irish minusculeIX 2/4Ireland? Continent?Or S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
LeidenUniversiteitsbibliotheekBPL 67D (ff 13–14) [palimpsest old]Lectionarium OfficiiIrish majusculeVIII–IXIreland or Irish centreOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
LeuvenUniversity Library1094Pentateuch; Lectionarium (Vulgata, Gn 4.20–6, 6.9–21)Irish majusculeVIII¹IrelandOr S
LondonBritish LibraryAdd. 40618Gospels (Mt, Lc, Mc, Io, imperf.)Irish minusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S
LondonBritish LibrarySloane MS 1044 (fol. 3)Gregory the Great, Dialogi (3.31–32)Insular majusculeVIII²IrelandOr S
LondonPrivate Collection J. Paul Getty Jr.naRufinus, Historia Ecclesiastica (1.1–3, 10)Irish Half-UncialVIIIrelandOr S
LondonLambeth Palace Library1370 (MacDurnan’s Gospels)Gospels IX²Ireland (Armagh?)Or S V Link to images available
MilanBiblioteca Ambrosiana*D 23 sup.Isidore, Liber Differentiarum (38.146–40.167)Irish majusculeVIIIIreland?Or S Embedded IIIF images available
MilanBiblioteca AmbrosianaF 60 sup. (ff 1–46, 58–77)Excerpta ex PatribusIrish minusculeVIIIIrelandOr S V
MilanBiblioteca AmbrosianaA 138 sup.Priscian (frag.)Irish minusculeIXBobbio? Ireland?Or S V
MilanBiblioteca AmbrosianaM 67 sup. (flyleaves)Augustine, Tractatus in Epistulam 1 Iohannis 4, 5–7Irish minusculeVIIIIrelandOr S
MilanBiblioteca AmbrosianaC 5 inf. (Bangor Antiphonary)Antiphonarium (Vetus Latina)Irish minusculeVII exBangor (Ireland)Or S Embedded IIIF images available
MilanBiblioteca AmbrosianaC 301 inf. (Milan glosses)Theodorus Mopsuestenus, Commentarii in PsalmosIrish minusculeVIII–IXIreland (Bangor? Leinster?)Or S Sb V
MilanBiblioteca AmbrosianaL 22 sup. (ff 146, 147)
+ 2 other units
Computus; CalculusIrish minusculeVIII–IX vel IX¹IrelandOr S V
MunichBayerische 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
MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 29300/2Sacramentarium Celticum: Officium MortuorumIrish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
NancyBibliothèque municipale317 (356)Grammatici Latini; Virgilius Maro; computus fragmentIrish minusculeIX 1/4Bobbio (Ireland?)Or S V
OxfordBodleian LibraryRawlinson G 167 [S.C. 14890] (Rawlinson Gospels)Gospels (Lc 1–24.47, Io 1.14–6.54, 7.1, 21.16)Insular majusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
OxfordBodleian LibraryAuctarium D.II.19 [S.C. 3946] (Mac Regol/Rushworth Gospels)Gospels (Lc, Mc, Mt, Io)Irish majusculeVIII–IX (ante 822)Birr, IrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
OxfordBodleian LibraryAuctarium F.III.15 [S.C. 3511] (ff 54–65)Liturgica (Antiphonarium Celticum)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S
ParisBibliothèque nationale de FranceLat. 9488 (ff 75–76)Antiphonarium (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIII²IrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
ParisBibliothèque nationale de FranceLat. 9488 (ff 3–4)Sacramentarium (fragm.)Insular majusculeVIIIIreland or N EnglandOr* Or Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
ParisBibliothèque nationale de FranceLat. 12292 [flyleaves]Anonymous, Commentarii in Matthaeum (fragm.)Irish minusculeVIII–IXprob. IrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
ParisBibliothèque nationale de FranceLat. 11884 (ff 7–19)Gregory the Great, HomiliaeIXIreland?Or S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
ParisBibliothèque nationale de FranceLat. 11411 (fol. 123)Consentius, Excerpta ex Arte (fragm.)Insular majuscule and Insular minusculeVIII²IrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
ParisBibliothèque nationale de FranceLat. 10400 (ff 109–110)
+ 1 other unit
Eutyches, De Verbo (fragm.)Irish minusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
ParisBibliothèque nationale de FranceLat. 10399 (ff 35–36) + Lat. 9528 (fol. 201)Computistica (Dionysius Exiguus, Tabula Paschalis; Anatolius, Canon Paschalis); Augustine, De Genesi ad Literam (2.14); Gaudentius, Tractatus I in ExodumMixed Anglo-Saxon majuscule and minusculeVIIIEngland? Ireland? Echternach?Or* Or V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
ParisBibliothèque nationale de FranceLat. 9488 (f. 5)Sacramentarium (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIII exIreland or Irish traditionsOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
Saint-OmerBibliothèque municipale342 bis (fol. B)Glossae super AmosInsular majuscule and Insular minusculeVII–VIIIIreland or WalesOr Or* V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
SchaffhausenStadtbibliothekMin. 25 aFragmentum Argumenti IncertiInsular majusculeVII exIrelandOr S
SchaffhausenStadtbibliothekMin. 45 (ff 44, 45, 48, 49) [palimpsest]Fragmenta Textus IncertiInsular minusculeVIIIprob. IrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
St GallStiftsbibliothek904Priscian851IrelandOr S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
St GallStiftsbibliothek1395 (pp 436–437)Augustine, De Musica (5.5)Irish minusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
St GallStiftsbibliothek60Gospels (Vetus Latina, Io partim.)Irish majuscule and Irish minusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
St GallStiftsbibliothek1395 (pp 444–447)Sacramentarium Celticum (Visitatio Infirmorum, fragm.)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
St GallStiftsbibliothek1394 (pp 95–98)Sacramentarium Celticum (fragm.)Irish majuscule and Irish minusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
St GallStiftsbibliothek1394 (pp 101–104)Gospels (Vulgata, Lc 1.12–32, 2.43–3.9)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
St GallStiftsbibliothek1395 (pp 418–419, 422–423, 426–427)Litania (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIII²IrelandOr S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
St GallStiftsbibliothek1395 (pp 430–433)Missa pro Defunctis (fragm.)Irish minusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
St GallStiftsbibliothek51 [palimpsest new]Gospels (Vetus Latina, Mc, Mt, Lc, Io partim)Irish majusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
TrierStadtbibliothek137 (ff 48–61) [palimpsest old]Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIII²Ireland or Irish centreOr S
TurinBiblioteca NazionaleF.IV.14 (binding) [palimpsest old] + F.IV.16 (binding) [palimpsest old] + F.VI.2 Fasc. 8 [palimpsest old] + G.V.2 (ff 139, 167–170) [palimpsest old] + O.IV.20 [palimpsest old]Gospels (Mt, Mc, Lc, Io) (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S
TurinBiblioteca NazionaleF.IV.24 (fol. 93) [palimpsest old]Catholic Epistles (1 Pt, 2 Pt 1–13)Irish minusculeVIIIIrelandOr S V
TurinBiblioteca NazionaleF.IV.1, fasc. 7Pseudo-Jerome, Commentarii in Marcum (1.1–6, 14.52–15.21)Irish minusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S V
TurinBiblioteca NazionaleF.IV.1, fasc. 9Antiphonarium CelticumInsular majusculeVIII inIrelandOr S V
Vatican CityBiblioteca Apostolica VaticanaPal. Lat. 235 (ff 4–29)Paulinus Nolanus, CarminaInsular minusculeVIII exIreland or NorthumbriaOr Or* Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
Vatican CityBiblioteca Apostolica VaticanaPal. Lat. 68Glossa in Psalmos (39–151)Anglo-Saxon minusculeVIIIEngland? (poss. Ireland?)Or* T V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
Vatican CityBiblioteca Apostolica VaticanaLat. 13501/XXIV (ff 44–45)Fragment on month namesIrish minusculeIXNE France (Soissons?)? Ireland?S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
ViennaÖsterreichische NationalbibliothekLat. 15298Bede, De Temporum Ratione (7–22)Irish minusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S V Link to images available
WarminsterLibrary of the Marquess of Bath [Longleat House]NMR 10589 (flyleaves)Isidore, Etymologiae (6.16.6–17.9, 7.1.29–38)Irish minusculeVII–VIIIIrelandOr S V
WürzburgUniversitätsbibliothekM.p.th.f.61 (ff 21, 24) [palimpsest old]Sacramentarium Gallicanum (fragm.)Irish majusculeVIIIIrelandOr S Link to images available
WürzburgUniversitätsbibliothekM.p.th.f.61 [palimpsest new]Gospels (Vulgata, Mt)Irish majusculeVIII²IrelandOr S V Link to images available
WürzburgUniversitätsbibliothekM.p.th.f.183 (flyleaf)Bede, De Ratione Temporum (praefatio, capitula)Irish majuscule verging on minusculeVIII²IrelandOr S Link to images available
WürzburgUniversitätsbibliothekM.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
WürzburgUniversitätsbibliothekM.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
ZürichStaatsarchivA.G. 19 No. 16 (fol. 32 = p. 77–78)Lectionarium (fragm.)Insular majusculeVIIIprob. IrelandOr S
ZürichStaatsarchivA.G. 19 No. 36 (fol. 57 = p. 117–118)Sacramentarium Celticum (fragm.)Irish minusculeVIIIIrelandOr S
ZürichStaatsarchivA.G.W 19 No. 12 (ff 24–5 = p. 61–4)Minor Prophets, with commentary and gloss (Vulgata, Ez 2.6–3.6, 8–15, 16.4–21, 26–42)Irish minusculeVIII–IXIrelandOr S

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