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This is a list of manuscripts produced in Ireland as well as other manuscripts of Irish interest, including both vellum and paper manuscripts.
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! width="20%" | Library ! width="20%" | MS catalogue no. ! width="20%" | Date ! width="40%" | Description
|- valign="top" | Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium (Bibliothèque Royale) | 3410 | 1629 | Paper manuscript.<ref name=Msomit>John Corthals, [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/MS-OMIT ''Manuscript Sources to Old and Middle Irish Tales'' (MS Omit)]</ref>
|- valign="top" | Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium | 5100-4 | 17th century | Transcripts by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh from a book written by Siodrach Ua Mael Conaire in 1533.<ref name=IMMURGU>[http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/keltisch/_private/immurgu-list.html ''Insular Medieval Manuscripts Reproduction Guide'' (IMMURGU)], University of Utrecht.</ref>
|- valign="top" | Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium | 5301-20 | after 1643 | Paper manuscript.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Cambridge, Cambridge University Library | Book of Deer | 9/10th century, with later additions | Gospelbook of the 9/10th century, with 12th-century additions in Scottish Gaelic.<ref name=IMMURGU /> [http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/book_of_deer Images] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716232847/http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/book_of_deer/ |date=2012-07-16 }}
|- valign="top" | Chatsworth | Book of Lismore | ''c''. 1500 | Mainly religious texts.<ref name=IMMURGU />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 1 (''olim'' Phillipps 4169) | 16th century | Parchment manuscript; main scribe: Pilip Ballach hua Duibhgeandáin.<ref name=NíShéaghdha>{{cite book |author1=Ní Shéaghdha, Nessa |author2=Pádraig Ó Macháin |title=Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the National Library of Ireland |publisher=Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies |location=Dublin |year=1961–1996 |series=Studies in Irish Manuscripts}}</ref>
|- valign="top" | Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 2 (''olim'' Phillipps 7021) | 14th–15th centuries | Parchment manuscript; main scribe: Ádam Ó Cianáin.<ref name=NíShéaghdha/>
|- valign="top" | Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 3 (''olim'' Phillips MS 7022)<br>Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin | 14th–15th centuries | Includes Irish verse.<ref>E.g. ''Banshenchas''; poem beginning ''A aos dána, is aithnidh damh'', for which see {{cite journal |last=Ó Riain |first=Gordon |title=Early Modern technical verse from NLI G 3 |journal=Éigse |volume=36 |year=2008 |pages=35–42}}</ref>
|- valign="top" | Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 4 (''olim'' Phillips MS 8214) | 1391 | Fragment which previously belonged to the core of the Yellow Book of Lecan.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 7 | 16th century | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 8 (''olim'' Phillips MS 9750)<br>Book of Éumann Ó Bolgaoi | 16th century | Medical manuscript on paper and parchment.<ref name=NíShéaghdha/>
|- valign="top" | Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 10 (''olim'' Phillips MS 10266) | 16th century | Composite manuscript on parchment.<ref name=NíShéaghdha/>
|- valign="top" | Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 11 (''olim'' Phillips MS 10297) | 2nd quarter of the 15th century | Medical tracts translated from Latin to Irish, followed by a small section of legal material. Parchment; main scribe: Donnchadh Ua Bolgaidhi.<ref name=NíShéaghdha/>
|- valign="top" | Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 1200<br>Book of Magauran / Leabhar Méig Shamhradháin | 14th century | Duanaire (poetry anthology). Main scribes: Ruaidhrí Ó Cianáin, Doighre Ó hUiginn.<ref name=NíShéaghdha/>
|- valign="top" | Dublin, National Library of Ireland | G 1303<br>Leabhar Í Eadhra (Book of O'Hara) | 1597 | Bardic poetry in Irish. Parchment manuscript.<ref name=NíShéaghdha/>
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 D 17 | | |- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 E 29<br>Book of Fermoy | 15th–16th century | Composite manuscript, three parts: I (pp. 1–16); II (pp. 17–216); III (pp. 217–24). Part preserved as Egerton 92 (see there).<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 K 44 | 1721–1722 | Paper MS<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 N 10 | ''c''. 1575 | Compiled by scribes of the Ó Maolconaire. Formerly MS Betham 145, after its former owner William Betham.
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 P 2 <br>Great Book of Lecan | ''c''. 1380 x 1417 | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 P 3 | 1467 (first part) | Composite manuscript, consisting of three parts.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 P 12<br>Book of Ballymote | 1384–1406 | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 24 P 26<br>Book of Fenagh | 16th century | |- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 23 Q 6 | 15th–16th century | Composite manuscript, five parts.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | 24 P 25 | 16th century | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | B IV 1 | 1671–1674 | Paper manuscript.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | B IV 1A | 17th century? | Paper manuscript.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | B IV 2 | 1627–1628 | Paper manuscript.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | C I 2 | 15th–16th century? | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | C III 2 | 1552 | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | C VI 3 | early 17th century | Paper manuscript.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Royal Irish Academy | D IV 2 | 15th century | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Trinity College | 52<br>Book of Armagh | 9th century | |- valign="top" | Dublin, Trinity College | 1289 (''olim'' H.1.15) | 1729–1745 | Paper manuscript.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Trinity College | 1291 (''olim'' H.1.17) | 1755 | Paper manuscript.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Trinity College | 1298 (''olim'' H.2.7) | ''c''. 1340–1350 | Irish genealogies, tales.
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Trinity College | 1308 (''olim'' H.2.12, no. 8) | 15th century? | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Trinity College | 1316 (''olim'' H.2.15a) | various | Composite manuscript, including ''Senchas Már'' material written down ''c''. 1350.<ref name=IMMURGU />
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Trinity College | 1318 (''olim'' H.2.16)<br>Yellow Book of Lecan | 14th/15th century | Composite manuscript
|- valign="top" | Dublin, Trinity College | 1336 (''olim'' H.3.17) | 15th and 16th centuries | Miscellany
|- valign="top" | Dublin, University College | Psalter of Caimín | 11th century | Fragment
|- valign="top" | Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland | No. V | 14th–15th century? | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland | No. XL | | Composite manuscripts (five parts).<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland | No. XXVIII | 14th century? | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland | No. XXXVI | 1690–1691 | Paper manuscript.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | London, British Library | Additional 30512 | 15th–16th century | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | London, British Library | Additional 33993 | 16th century | Composite manuscript: I (ff. 1–19) and II (ff. 20–29).<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | London, British Library | Cotton Nero A 7 | 16th century? | Composite manuscript, e.g. ''Bretha Nemed Toísech''
|- valign="top" | London, British Library | Egerton 88 | ''c''. 1564 | Collection of medieval Irish legal texts, literature, grammatical works and legal glossaries<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | London, British Library | Egerton 92 | | Part detached from Book of Fermoy (see Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 23 E 29).<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | London, British Library | Egerton 93 | 15th century (part I); 16th century (parts II–III) | Composite manuscript in three parts: I (ff. 1–19); II (ff. 20–25); III (ff. 26–35).<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | London, British Library | Egerton 1781 | ''c''. 1484–1487 | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | London, British Library | Egerton 1782 | ''c''. 1517 | <ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | London, British Library | Harleian 432 | early 16th century | Parchment.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | London, British Library | Harleian 5260 | 16th century | Parchment.<ref name=Msomit />
|- valign="top" | London, British Library | Lansdowne 418 | | e.g. ''Annals of Duisk''
|- valign="top" |Oxford, Bodleian Library | Laud misc. 610 | ''c''. 1453–1454 | Irish genealogies. [http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=bodleian&manuscript=mslaudmisc610 Images online].
|- valign="top" |Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.475 | early 17th century | Irish account of the Norman invasion of Ireland, based on an English version of Gerald of Wales' ''Expugnatio Hibernica''; medieval and early modern Irish poems
|- valign="top" | Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.488 | 14th–17th centuries | Includes the Annals of Tigernach
|- valign="top" | Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.489 | early 16th century | Annals of Ulster
|- valign="top" | Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.498 | | Irish charters, e.g. of the "Palmer's Hospital" (Priory and Hospital of St. John the Baptist without the New Gate, Dublin); of the Order of Fratres Cruciferi; additions.
|- valign="top" | Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.499 | 1526 | Transcripts of deeds of Thomas Court (Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas the Martyr), Dublin.
|- valign="top" |Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.501 | | ''Registrum de Kilmainham''
|- valign="top" |Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.502 | | |- valign="top" |Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.503 | 11th–15th centuries | Annals of Inisfallen |- valign="top" |Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.506 | | |- valign="top" |Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.512 | | |- valign="top" |Oxford, Bodleian Library | Rawlinson B.514 | | |- valign="top" | Stockholm | Vitterhet Engelsk, II. | 16th century | Parchment.<ref name=Msomit />
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==See also== *Cín Dromma Snechtai *Irish Manuscripts Commission
==Notes== {{reflist|2}}
==Sources== *General: **{{cite web |last=Corthals |first=Johan |title=Manuscript Sources to Old and Middle Irish Tales (MS-Omit) |url=http://www.ucc.ie/celt/MS-OMIT}} *Brussels: **{{cite book |author-link=Joseph Van den Gheyn |last=Van den Gheyn |first=Joseph |title=Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique |location=Brussels |year=1905}} *Dublin **{{cite book |last=Mulchrone |first=Kathleen|title=Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy |location=Dublin |year=1926–70|display-authors=etal}} **{{cite book |first1=T.K. |last1=Abbott |first2=E.J. |last2=Gwynn |title=Catalogue of the Irish manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029605080 |location=Dublin |year=1921}} *Cambridge **{{cite book |first1=P. |last1=De Brún |first2=M. |last2=Herbert |title=Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in Cambridge libraries |location=Cambridge |year=1986 }} **{{cite book |first=M.R. |last=James |title=A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |url=https://archive.org/details/descriptivecatal01corp |location=Cambridge |year=1909–1913 }}
==External links== * [http://isos.dias.ie ISOS], Irish Script on Screen * [http://www.ucc.ie/celt CELT], Corpus of Electronic Texts * [https://celt.ucc.ie/MsOmit2017 MsOmit], Manuscript Sources to Old and Middle Irish Tales, 2017 * [http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/keltisch/_private/immurgu-list.html IMMURGU], Insular Medieval Manuscripts Reproduction Guide * [https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Home CODECS], Collaborative Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110609125436/http://www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie/S/0001/S.0001.192304190008.html Proposal] by W. B. Yeats in the Irish Senate in April 1923, concerning the local translation of Irish manuscripts.
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