Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 12 R 33 The Cathach of St Columba

s. vi/vii
Irish manuscripts

General

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Dublin, Royal Irish Academy

Shelfmark

12 R 33

Title

The Cathach of St Columba

Type

Psalter

Provenance and related aspects

Date

s. vi/vii

Late 6th or early 7th century

Hands, scribes

Irish manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] “Royal Irish Academy”, Anne-Marie OʼBrien, and Pádraig Ó Macháin, Irish Script on Screen (ISOS) – Meamrám Páipéar Ríomhaire, Online: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1999–present. URL: <https://www.isos.dias.ie/collection/ria.html>.

direct link

[dig. img.] Herity, Michael, and Aidan Breen, The Cathach of Colum Cille: an introduction, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2002. vii + 75 pp. + CD-ROM.

incl. digital surrogate available on CD-ROM.

[ed.] Lawlor, H. J. [ed.], “The Cathach of St Columba”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 33 C (1916): 241–443.

Internet Archive: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

OʼNeill, Timothy, “Quills, inks and vellums”, in: Bernadette Cunningham, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, and Petra Schnabel (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009. 45–49.

Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, “The Cathach and Domnach Airgid”, in: Bernadette Cunningham, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, and Petra Schnabel (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009. 1–8.

McNamara, Martin, “Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200)”, in: Martin McNamara, The Psalms in the early Irish Church, 165, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. 19–142.

Reprint.

28–31

McNamara, Martin, “Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600–1200)”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 73 C (1973): 201–298.

264–269

Alexander, Jonathan J. G., A survey of manuscripts illuminated in the British Isles, vol. 1: Insular manuscripts, 6th-9th century, London: Miller, 1978.

28–29.

Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini antiquiores: a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century. Part 2: Great Britain and Ireland, Codices Latini Antiquiores, 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935.

no. 266 [id. 266.]

Esposito, Mario, “The Cathach of St Columba”, County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 4:1 (1916–1920): 80–83.