A handlist of early medieval manuscripts (before c. AD 1000) relevant to the study of Irish book culture.
Browse category: Irish exemplar
City
Library
Shelfmark/section
Contents
Script
Dating
Origin
Provenance
Images
Bamberg
Staatsbibliothek
Class.31 (E.III.22)
Dares; Rufius Festus, Breviarium; Florus
Caroline minuscule
IX/X or X in
prob. Italy
Basel
Universitätsbibliothek
F III 15l
Isidorus, Differentiae; Gennadius, De Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus
Anglo-Saxon minuscule
VIII
Anglo-Saxon centre, prob. on Continent
Fulda
Berlin
Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Ms. Theol. Lat. Fol. 364 (Rose 791)
Passiones et Vitae Sanctorum
IX 3/4
prob. N. France
Werden
Beuron
Bibliothek der Benediktiner-Erzabtei
Fragm. 41
Abbreviatio Moralium Gregorii Magni
Caroline minuscule
IX 3/3
prob. Reichenau
Florence
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Plut. 29.24
Bede, De temporibus, De natura rerum, etc.
Caroline minuscule
IX²
E France (Verdun?)
Verdun
Hereford
Cathedral Library
O.III.2
Jerome, De viris illustribus; Decretum Gelasianum; Gennadius, De viris illustribus; Isidore, De viris illustribus; Augustine Retractationes;
Cassiodorus, Institutiones (book 1); Isidore, Prohemia, extracts from De ecclesiasticis officiis, De ortu et obitu sanctorum patrum, Allegoriae
Caroline minuscule
IX 3/4
France?
Canterbury (c. 1100)
Karlsruhe
Badische Landesbibliothek
Aug. perg. 135 (ff 1–105)
Bede, Super Actus apostolorum expositio; Glossae in partem Veteris Testamenti
Caroline minuscule
IX 2/3
prob. Reichenau
Karlsruhe
Badische Landesbibliothek
Aug. perg. 141 (ff 1–26)
Explanatio brevis in epistulas Pauli (Rm, Phil, Col, I Th)
Caroline minuscule
IX 3/3
SW Germany (prob. Reichenau)
Laon
Bibliothèque municipale
50
Lathcen, Ecloga Gregorii Moralium in Iob
Early Caroline minuscule
VIII–IX
N France
Laon
Bibliothèque municipale
468 (ff 1–61)
Commentarii in Vergilium, Sedulium artesque liberales
Caroline minuscule
IX 3/4
Laon
Leiden
Universiteitsbibliotheek
BPL 67D [palimpsest new]
Epitome Libri Glossarum, etc.
Caroline minuscule
IX 3/4
prob. France (Irish scribe)
London
British Library
Cotton MS Nero A.II (ff 14–45)
Theologica et Ascetica Varia. Cursus Scottorum
Pre-Caroline minuscule
VIII–IX
Uncertain (Verona?)
Milan
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
C 243 inf.
Glossarium alphabeticum magnum
Caroline minuscule
IX 3/3
Bobbio
Montecassino
Archivio dell'Abbazia
320 (pp 5–398)
Isidore, Etymologiae
IX/X or IX in
Italy?
Munich
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Clm 5447 (flyleaves)
Computus Hibernensis
Early Caroline minuscule
VIII ex
Salzburg
Munich
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Clm 6235
Anonymi Scoti Commentarius in epistulas Pauli; Pseudo-Hieronymus, In IV evangelia
IX 3/4
N. Italy (Bobbio?)
Freising
Munich
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Clm 6398
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
IX med
Freising
Munich
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Clm 6411
Euthyches, Ars de verbo; Isidore, Etymologiae (excerpts); etc.
IX 1/4
Bavaria
Munich
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Clm 6434 (ff 1–40)
Arnobius Iunior, Interpretatio Evangeliorum (incompl.); Hieronymus, Epistulae (Ad Nepotianum, Ad Paulinum)
Early Caroline minuscule
VIII ex
Freising
Munich
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Clm 6434 (ff 41–422)
Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (fragm.); Audax.
Early Caroline minuscule
VIII ex
Freising
Munich
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Clm 14420 (ff 1–20)
Beda, De arte metrica, etc.
Caroline minuscule
IX²
Germany?
Munich
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Clm 14497
Excerpta ex Isidoro, etc.
Caroline minuscule
c. 800
S Germany
Munich
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Clm 14715 (ff 1–56)
Eclogae tractatorum in psalterium
Caroline minuscule
IX²
S Germany
Munich
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Clm 14846
Erchanbertus, Commentarius in Donatum; Sortilegia Celtica
IX ex/X in
Lake Constance area?
Regensberg
Munich
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Clm 29270/1 [palimpsest new] + 1 other unit
Maximus Victorinus, De ratione metrorum; Metrorius, De finalibus syllabis
VIII–IX
Salzburg
Minuscule
Munich
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Clm 29280/5 + Clm 18119
Commentum (Scoti cuiusdam?) in Matthaeum
IX med
Salzburg
St Gall
Stiftsbibliothek
1346
Columbanus, Instructiones, Epistulae
Modern hand
c. 1611
St Gall
Vienna
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Lat. 366
Orosius, Historia Adversus Paganos
Caroline minuscule
VIII ex
Salzburg
Vienna
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Lat. 522
Miscellanea; Versus Salisburgenses; Bede, De natura rerum; etc.
Caroline minuscule
IX med (time of Bishop Liuphram)
Salzburg
Vienna
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Lat. 740
Sedulius Scottus, Commentarius in Matthaeum; Excerpta varia
Caroline minuscule
IX 3/4
prob. E France
Vienna
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Lat. 921
Lathcen, Ecloga ex Gregorii Magni Moralibus in Iob
Caroline minuscule
IX med (time of Bishop Liuphram)
Salzburg
Vienna
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Lat. 997
Anonymi Scoti Commentarii in evangelia Lucae et Iohannis; Jerome, Interpretationes; etc.
