Manuscripts with Irish Associations (MIrA)

Evidence for early Irish book culture, c. AD 600–1000

This resource (still in development) aims to provide useful information for researchers on early Irish manuscript culture. It currently contains a catalogue of 292 manuscripts from before c. AD 1000 that can be assigned to at least one of the following categories:

Or Origin: Ireland

S Script: Irish

Ex Exemplar: Irish

Or* Origin: Insular (Ireland?)

S* Script: Insular (Irish?)

Ex* Exemplar: Insular (Irish?)

Sb Named Irish scribe

T Text of Irish origin

V Vernacular content

IIIF images

The catalogue makes use of IIIF services, where available (for 148 manuscripts currently). These facilitate:

Inline display of manuscript images.
Inclusion of information from library websites (where provided).
Viewing different manuscripts side-by-side. See e.g. the Durham Gospel fragment, Eutyches binding fragment, Fleury grammatical miscellany, or Isidore binding fragment.

You can also compare side-by-side two or more manuscripts of your own selection using the Mirador viewer. Watch this short video for instructions: