Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B. 512 is an Irish vellum manuscript in
quarto
Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4º) is the format of a book or pamphlet produced from full sheets printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves. The leaves are then trimmed along the folds to produc ...
, numbering 154 folios and written in double columns by multiple scribes in the course of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The compilation presents a diverse range of medieval texts in verse and in prose, some of which are in Latin, while the vast majority is written in the Irish language. It is a composite manuscript, consisting of five portions which were originally distinct volumes: I (fos. 101-22, 1-36, 45-52), II (fos. 53-75), III (fos. 75B-100, 37-44), IV (fos. 123-44) and V (fos. 145-54).
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Contents
Sources
Secondary sources
*Stokes, Whitley. ''The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick''. London, 1887.
Further reading
*Best, R.I. "Notes on Rawlinson B. 512."
ZCP 17 (1928): 389-402.
*Meyer, Kuno (ed.). ''Hibernica Minora''. Anecdota Oxoniensia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894. Supplement (pp. ) to Stokes' description.
*Ó Cuív, Brian. ''Catalogue of Irish Language Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford College Libraries''. Part I. Dublin, 2001. No. 38, pp. 223–54.
External links
MS Rawlinson B. 512Images available on Digital Bodleian.
MS Rawlinson B. 512in the Bodleian Libraries' catalogue of Medieval manuscripts
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Irish manuscripts
Bodleian Library collection
Irish-language literature