Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 58 Book of Kells

  • Latin
  • s. viii/s. ix
  • Irish manuscripts
Identifiers
Location
Shelfmark
A 1. 6
Classification
Cat. no. 58
Title
Book of Kells
Type
gospelbooks
Gospel book
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
s. viii/s. ix
late 8th or early 9th century
Hands, scribes
Additions
Charters/deeds are added to pages which were left blank by the original scribe and illustrator.
Palaeographical information
Script
Category: Insular half-uncial
Illumination
Lavishly illustrated
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.

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.] Digital resources and imaging services, Trinity College Library Dublin, Online: Trinity College Dublin, 2009–present. URL: <http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie>.

Secondary sources (select)

Digital resources and imaging services, Trinity College Library Dublin, Online: Trinity College Dublin, 2009–present. URL: <http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie>.
Abbott, T. K., and E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of the Irish manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co, 1921.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
1–2
Colker, Marvin L., Trinity College Library Dublin: descriptive catalogue of the mediaeval and Renaissance Latin manuscripts, 2 vols, Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1991.
106–108
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
May 2011, last updated: June 2021