List of Hiberno-Saxon illustrated manuscripts
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Manuscript
A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...
s made in the British Isles
British Isles
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from about 500
500
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CE to about 900
900
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CE in England, but later in Ireland and elsewhere, or those manuscripts made on the continent in scriptoria founded by Irish or Anglo-Saxon missionaries and which are stylistically similar to the manuscripts produced in the British Isles. It is almost impossible to separate Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Anglo-Saxon art at this period, especially in manuscripts; this art is therefore called Insular art
Insular art
Insular art, also known as Hiberno-Saxon art, is the style of art produced in the post-Roman history of Ireland and Great Britain. The term derives from insula, the Latin term for "island"; in this period Britain and Ireland shared a largely common style different from that of the rest of Europe...
. See also insular script
Insular script
Insular script was a medieval script system originally used in Ireland, then Great Britain, that spread to continental Europe under the influence of Celtic Christianity. Irish missionaries also took the script to continental Europe, where they founded monasteries such as Bobbio. The scripts were...
. For English manuscripts produced after 900, see the List of illuminated Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.
- Antwerp Sedulius (Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus MS M. 17. 4)
- Barberini GospelsBarberini GospelsThe Barberini Gospels is an illuminated Hiberno-Saxon manuscript Gospel Book , assumed to be of a late eighth century origin...
(Rome, Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica MS Barberini Lat. 570) - Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 10861 Lives of Saints (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 10861)
- Bibliothèque Nationale MS. nouv. acq. lat. 1587 Gospel Book (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS. nouv. acq. lat. 1587)
- Ambrosiana Jerome (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS S. 45. sup.)
- Ambrosiana Orosius (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS D. 23. sup.)
- Bodleian Ovid (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Auct. F. 4. 32, ff. 37-47 (S. C. 2176)
- Bodleian Philippus (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 426 (S. C. 2327))
- Book of ArmaghBook of ArmaghThe Book of Armagh or Codex Ardmachanus , also known as the Canon of Patrick and the Liber Armachanus, is a 9th-century Irish manuscript written mainly in Latin. It is held by the Library of Trinity College, Dublin...
(Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52) - Book of CerneBook of CerneThe Book of Cerne is a ninth century Anglo-Saxon prayer book. It was apparently made between 820 and 840 for Bishop Æthelwold of Lichfield . It is the only surviving illuminated manuscript that can be firmly attributed to the kingdom of Mercia...
(Cambridge, University Library, MS L1. 1. 10) - Book of DeerBook of DeerThe Book of Deer is a 10th-century Latin Gospel Book from Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, with early 12th-century additions in Latin, Old Irish and Scottish Gaelic. It is most famous for containing the earliest surviving Gaelic literature from Scotland...
(Cambridge, University Library, MS II. 6. 32) - Book of DimmaBook of Dimmathumb|left|The 12th century case of the Book of Dimma.The Book of Dimma is an 8th-century Irish pocket Gospel Book originally from the Abbey of Roscrea, founded by St. Cronan in the County Tipperary, Ireland. In addition to the four Gospels, in between the Gospels of Luke and John, it has an...
(Dublin, Trinity College Library MS A. 4. 23 (59)) - Book of DurrowBook of DurrowThe Book of Durrow is a 7th-century illuminated manuscript gospel book in the Insular style. It was probably created between 650 and 700, in Northumbria in Northern England, where Lindisfarne or Durham would be the likely candidates, or on the island of Iona in the Scottish Inner Hebrides...
(Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. 4. 5 (57)) - Book of KellsBook of KellsThe Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables. It was created by Celtic monks ca. 800 or slightly earlier...
(Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A I. 6. (58)) - Book of MullingBook of MullingThe Book of Mulling or less commonly, Book of Moling , is an Irish pocket Gospel Book from the late 8th century. The text collection includes the four Gospels, a liturgical service which includes the "Apostles' Creed", and in the colophon, a supposed plan of St...
(Dublin, Trinity College Library MS A. I. 15 (60)) - Book of NunnaminsterBook of NunnaminsterThe Book of Nunnaminster is a 9th century Anglo-Saxon prayerbook. It was written in the kingdom of Mercia, using an "insular" hand , related to Carolingian minuscule. It was probably later owned by Ealhswith, wife of Alfred the Great. It is related to, but of an earlier date than, the Book of Cerne...
(London, British Library Harley MS 2965) - Gospel BookGospel Book (British Library Add. MS. 40618)British Library, Add. MS 40618 is a late 8th century illuminated Irish Gospel Book with 10th century Anglo-Saxon additions. The manuscript contains a portion of the Gospel of Matthew, the majority of the Gospel of Mark and the entirety of the Gospels of Luke and John...
(London, British Library Add. MS. 40618) - British Library Add. MS. 36929 Psalter (London, British Library Add. MS. 36929)
- British Library Harley MS 1023 Gospel Book (London, British Library Harley MS 1023)
- Gospels of Mael BrigteGospels of Mael BrigteThe Gospels of Mael brigte is an illuminated Gospel Book, with glosses....
(London, British Library, Harley MS 1802) - Cadmug Gospels (Fulda, Landesbibliothek Codex Bonifatianus 3)
- Canterbury Gospels (London, British Library Royal MS I. E. VI and Canterbury, Cathedral Library Additional MS 16)
- Cathach of St. ColumbaCathach of St. ColumbaThe Cathach of St. Columba is an late 6th century Irish Psalter.It is traditionally associated with St. Columba , and was identified as the copy made by him of a book loaned to him by St. Finnian, and which led to the Battle of Cúl Dreimhne in 561...
(Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, s. n.) - Codex AmiatinusCodex AmiatinusThe Codex Amiatinus, designated by siglum A, is the earliest surviving manuscript of the nearly complete Bible in the Latin Vulgate version, and is considered to be the most accurate copy of St. Jerome's text. It is missing the Book of Baruch. It was produced in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of...
(Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana MS Amiatinus 1) - Codex Bigotianus (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 281, 298)
- Codex Usserianus PrimusCodex Usserianus PrimusCodex Usserianus Primus is an early 7th century Old Latin Gospel Book. It is dated palaeographically to the 6th or 7th century. It is designated by r .- Description :...
(Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. 4. 15 (55)) - Codex Usserianus Secundus (Garland of Howth) (Dublin, Trinity College MS A. 4. 6 (56))
- Cologne Collectio Canonum (Cologne, Dombibliothek Cod. 213)
- Cotton-Corpus Christi Gospel Fragment (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 197B, ff. 1-36 (Formerly pp. 245–316) and London, British Library Cotton MS Otho C. V)
- Cuthbert Gospel of St John (aka Stonyhurst GospelStonyhurst GospelThe Stonyhurst Gospel, also known as the St Cuthbert Gospel or the St Cuthbert Gospel of St John, is a small 7th-century pocket gospel book, written in Latin, which was probably placed in the tomb of Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, a few years after he died in 687...
) British Library - for binding - Cutbercht Gospels (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 1224)
- Durham Cassiodirus (Durham, Cathedral Library MS B. II. 30)
- Durham Cathedral Library A. II. 10. Gospel Book Fragment (Durham, Cathedral Library MSS A. II. 10 ff. 2-5, 338-8a, C. III. 13, ff. 192-5, and C. III. 20, ff. 1, 2)
- Durham Cathedral Library A. II. 16. Gospel Book Fragment (Durham Cathedral Library MSS A. II. 16, ff. 1-23, 34-86, 102 and Cambridge, Magdalene College Pepysian MS 2981 (18))
- Durham GospelsDurham GospelsThe Durham Gospels is a very incomplete late 7th century insular Gospel Book, now kept in the Durham Cathedral Library . A single folio of this manuscript is now in Magdalene College, Cambridge . Only two of the fully decorated pages survive: a Crucifixion and the initial to John, and both of...
(Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A.II.17, 2-102 and Cambridge, Magdalene College Pepysian MS 2981 (19)) - Echternach GospelsEchternach GospelsThe Echternach Gospels is an 8th-century insular Gospel Book from the library of the monastery of Echternach, Luxembourg. It is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . The manuscript was written by the same scribe that wrote the Durham Gospels.-References:* De Hamel, Christopher. A History...
(Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 9389) - Freiburg Gospel Book Fragment (Freiburg im Breisgau, Universitätsbibliothek Cod. 702)
- Gotha Gospels (Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Cod. Memb I. 18)
- Harburg Gospels (Harburg über Donauwörth, Schloss Harburg, Fürstlich Ottingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek Cod. I. 2. 4. 2 (Olin Maihingen))
- Hereford GospelsHereford GospelsThe Hereford Gospels is an 8th century illuminated manuscript Gospel Book in insular script minuscule script, with large illuminated initials in the Insular style....
(Hereford, Cathedral Library MS P. I. 2) - Karlsruhe Bede (Karlsruhe, Landesbibliothek Cod. CLXVII)
- Leiden Pliny (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS Voss. lat. F. 4, ff. 4-33)
- Leiden Priscian (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS. B. P. L. 67)
- Leipzig Gospel Book Fragment (Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek MSS Rep. I, 58a and Rep. 35a)
- Leningrad Bede (Leningrad, Public Library Cod. Q. v. I. 18)
- Leningrad GospelsLeningrad GospelsLeningrad Gospels This highly idiosyncratic work, an illuminated manuscript of the gospels in Hiberno-Saxon style dating from around 800AD, may have been produced in England south of the Humber. It is not to be confused with the Leningrad Codex of the Hebrew Bible....
(Leningrad, Public Library Cod. F. v. I. 8) - Leningrad Paulinus (Leningrad, Public Library Cod. Q. v. XIV. 1)
- Lichfield GospelsLichfield GospelsThe Lichfield Gospels is an eighth century Insular Gospel Book housed in Lichfield Cathedral. There are 236 surviving folios, eight of which are illuminated. Another four contain framed text...
(Book of St. Chad) (Lichfield, Cathedral Library) - Lindisfarne GospelsLindisfarne GospelsThe Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated Latin manuscript of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the British Library...
(London, BL, Cotton MS Nero D. IV) - Lothian Psalter (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS M. 776)
- Macdurnan Gospels (London, Lambeth Palace MS 1370)
- Macregol Gospels (Rushworth Gospels) (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Auct. D. 2. 19 (S. C. 3946))
- Maeseych Gospels (Maeseych, Church of St. Catherine, Tresor, s. n.)
- Milan Theodore (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana C. 301. inf.)
- Rawlinson Gospels (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson G. 167 (S.C. no. 14890))
- Ricemarch PsalterRicemarch PsalterThe Ricemarch Psalter is an 11th century Welsh illuminated psalter, in a late Insular style, that has been described as "Hiberno-Danish", instead of the usual "Hiberno-Saxon", as it reflects Viking influence. Its 159 pages are vellum, and include the following sections: Letter of St...
(Dublin, Trinity College MS A. 4. 20 (50)) - Royal Gospel Book (London, British Library Royal MS I. B. VII)
- Royal Irish Academy MS D. II. 3 Gospel of St. John (Dublin, Royal Irish Academy MS D. II. 3, ff. 1-11)
- Royal Prayer Book (London, British Library Royal MS 2.A.XX)
- Salaberga Psalter (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz MS Hamilton 553)
- Southhampton Psalter (Cambridge, St. John's College MS C. 9 (59))
- St. Gall Gospel BookSt. Gall Gospel BookThe St. Gall Gospel Book is a medieval insular Gospel Book. It is now in the Abbey of St. Gall cathedral library . It has 134 folios. Amongst its illustrations are a Crucifixion, a Last Judgement, a Chi Rho monogram page, a carpet page, and Evangelist portraits....
(St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 51) - St. Gall Gospel of St. John (St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 60)
- St. Gall Priscian (St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 904)
- Stockholm Codex AureusStockholm Codex AureusThe Stockholm Codex Aureus is an Insular Gospel book written in the mid-eighth century in Southumbria, probably in Canterbury...
(Stockholm, Royal Library MS A. 135) - Stonyhurst GospelStonyhurst GospelThe Stonyhurst Gospel, also known as the St Cuthbert Gospel or the St Cuthbert Gospel of St John, is a small 7th-century pocket gospel book, written in Latin, which was probably placed in the tomb of Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, a few years after he died in 687...
- for binding - Stowe MissalStowe MissalThe Stowe Missal, which is strictly speaking a sacramentary rather than a missal, is an Irish illuminated manuscript written mainly in Latin with some Gaelic in about 750. In the mid-11th century it was annotated and some pages rewritten at Lorrha Monastery in County Tipperary, Ireland...
(Dublin, Royal Irish Academy MS D. II. 3, ff. 12-67) - Stuttgart Psalter (Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Cod. Bibl. 2. 12)
- Tiberius BedeBede, Ecclesiastical History (British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II)British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II, or the Tiberius Bede, is an 8th century illuminated manuscript of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. It is one of only four surviving 8th century manuscripts of Bede. As such it is on the closest texts to Bede's autograph. The manuscript has...
(London, British Library Cotton MS Tiberius C. II) - Trier Gospels (Trier, Domschatz Codex 61 (Bibliotheksnummer 134))
- Turin Gospel Book Fragment (Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Cod. O. IV. 20)
- Utrecht Gospel Book Fragment (Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS 32 (Script. eccl. 484, ff. 94-105)
- Valenciennes Apocalypse (Valenciennes, Bibliothèque Municipale MS 99)
- Vespasian PsalterVespasian PsalterThe Vespasian Psalter is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated Psalter produced in the second or third quarter of the 8th century. It contains an interlinear gloss in Old English which is the oldest extant English translation of any portion of the Bible. It was produced in southern England, perhaps in St...
(London, British Library Cotton MS Vespasian A. I) - Vitellius Psalter (London, British Library Cotton MS Vitellius F. XI)
- Wurzburg St. Paul (Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek Cod. M. p. th. F. 69)