Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts are those

manuscript A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten – as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in ...

s made in

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

and

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It i ...

from about 500 CE to about 900 CE in England, but later in Ireland and elsewhere, or those manuscripts made on the continent in

scriptoria Scriptorium (), literally "a place for writing", is commonly used to refer to a room in medieval European monasteries devoted to the writing, copying and illuminating of manuscripts commonly handled by monastic scribes. However, lay scribes and ...

founded by Hiberno-Scottish or Anglo-Saxon missionaries and which are stylistically similar to the manuscripts produced in Ireland and Britain. It is almost impossible to separate Anglo-Saxon, Irish, Scottish and Welsh art at this period, especially in manuscripts; this art is therefore called Insular art. See specifically

Insular illumination Insular illumination refers to the production of illuminated manuscripts in the monasteries of Ireland and Great Britain between the 6th and 9th centuries, as well as in monasteries under their influence on continental Europe. It is characterised b ...

and also

Insular script Insular script was a medieval script system originating from Ireland that spread to Anglo-Saxon England and continental Europe under the influence of Irish Christianity. Irish missionaries took the script to continental Europe, where they found ...

. 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 Gospels (Rome, Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica MS Barberini Lat. 570) * Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 10861 Lives of Saints (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 10861) *

Gospels of Saint Gatien of Tours Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

(Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS. nouv. acq. lat. 1587) *

Ambrosiana Jerome The Bobbio Jerome (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS S. 45. sup.) is an early seventh-century manuscript copy of the '' Commentary on Isaiah'' attributed to St. Jerome. The manuscript has 156 pages and measures 235 by 215 mm. It is a palimp ...

(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 Armagh The ''Book of Armagh'' or Codex Ardmachanus (ar or 61) ( ga, Leabhar Ard Mhacha), also known as the ''Canon of Patrick'' and the ''Liber Ar(d)machanus'', is a 9th-century Irish illuminated manuscript written mainly in Latin. It is held by the L ...

(Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52) *

Book of Cerne The Book of Cerne (Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 1. 10) is an early ninth-century Insular or Anglo-Saxon Latin personal prayer book with Old English components. It belongs to a group of four such early prayer books, the others ...

(Cambridge, University Library, MS L1. 1. 10) * Book of Deer (Cambridge, University Library, MS II. 6. 32) *

Book of Dimma The Book of Dimma (Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College, MS.A.IV.23) is an 8th-century Irish art, Irish pocket Gospel Book originally from the Abbey of Roscrea, founded by Crónán of Roscrea, St. Crónán in County Tipperary, Irelan ...

(Dublin, Trinity College Library MS A. 4. 23 (59)) *

Book of Durrow The Book of Durrow is an illuminated manuscript dated to c. 700 that consists of text from the four Gospels gospel books, written in an Irish adaption of Vulgate Latin, and illustrated in the Insular script style.Moss (2014), p. 229 Its origin ...

(Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. 4. 5 (57)) * Book of Kells (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A I. 6. (58)) *

Book of Mulling The Book of Mulling or less commonly, Book of Moling (Dublin, Trinity College Library MS 60 (A. I. 15)), is an Irish pocket Gospel Book from the late 8th or early 9th century. The text collection includes the four Gospels, a liturgical servic ...

(Dublin, Trinity College Library MS A. I. 15 (60)) *

Book of Nunnaminster The Book of Nunnaminster (London, British Library, Harley MS 2965) is a 9th-century Anglo-Saxon prayerbook. It was written in the kingdom of Mercia, using an " insular" hand (as used in the British Isles), related to Carolingian minuscule. It was ...

(London, British Library Harley MS 2965) *

Gospel Book A Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels (Greek: , ''Evangélion'') is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament – normally all four – centering on the life of Jesus of Nazareth ...

(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 Brigte Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

(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. Columba (Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, s. n.) *

Codex Amiatinus The Codex Amiatinus (also known as the Jarrow Codex) is considered the best-preserved manuscript of the Latin Vulgate versionBruce M. Metzger, ''The Text of the New Testament'' (Oxford University Press 2005), p. 106. of the Christian Bible. It w ...

(Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana MS Amiatinus 1) *

Codex Bigotianus The codex (plural codices ) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term ''codex'' is often used for ancient manuscript books, with ...

(Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 281, 298) * Codex Eyckensis (Maaseik, Church of Saint Catherine, Treasury, s.n.) * Codex Usserianus Primus (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. 4. 15 (55)) *

Codex Usserianus Secundus The Garland of Howth, also known as the Codex Usserianus Secundus, designated by r2 or 28 (in the Beuron system), is a fragmentary 8th to 10th century Latin Gospel Book now in Trinity College Dublin as MS. 56 (A. IV. 6). The text, written on ve ...

(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 (

Stonyhurst Gospel The St Cuthbert Gospel, also known as the Stonyhurst Gospel or the St Cuthbert Gospel of St John, is an early 8th-century pocket gospel book, written in Latin. Its finely decorated leather binding is the earliest known Western bookbinding to ...

) British Library - for binding * Cutbercht Gospels (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 1224) * Durham Cassiodorus (Durham, Cathedral Library MS B. II. 30) *

Durham Cathedral Library A. II. 10. Gospel Book Fragment Durham Cathedral Library, Manuscript A.II.10. is a fragmentary seventh-century Insular Gospel Book, produced in Lindisfarne c. 650.Nordenfalk, 28 Only seven leaves of the book survive, bound in three separate volumes in the Durham Cathedral D ...

(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 Gospels The Durham Gospels is a very incomplete late 7th-century insular Gospel Book, now kept in the Durham Cathedral Dean and Chapter Library (MS A.II.17). A single folio of this manuscript is now in Magdalene College, Cambridge (Pepysian MS 2981). ...

(Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A.II.17, 2-102 and Cambridge, Magdalene College Pepysian MS 2981 (19)) *

Echternach Gospels The Echternach Gospels (Paris, Bib. N., MS. lat. 9389) were produced, presumably, at Lindisfarne Abbey in Northumbria around the year 690. This location was very significant for the production of Insular manuscripts, such as the Durham Gospels ...

(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 Gospels (Hereford, Cathedral Library MS P. I. 2) *

Karlsruhe Bede Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, third-largest city of the German States of Germany, state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital o ...

(Karlsruhe, Landesbibliothek Cod. CLXVII) * Leiden Pliny (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS Voss. lat. F. 4, ff. 4-33) *

Leiden Priscian Leiden (; in English language, English and Archaism, archaic Dutch language, Dutch also Leyden) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Nethe ...

(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 Gospels (Leningrad, Public Library Cod. F. v. I. 8) * Leningrad Paulinus (Leningrad, Public Library Cod. Q. v. XIV. 1) *

Lichfield Gospels The Lichfield Gospels (recently more often referred to as the St Chad Gospels, but also known as the Book of Chad, the Gospels of St Chad, the St Teilo Gospels, the Llandeilo Gospels, and variations on these) is an 8th-century Insular Gospel ...

(Book of St. Chad) (Lichfield, Cathedral Library) *

Lindisfarne Gospels The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715–720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the B ...

(London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero D. IV) * Lothian Psalter (Blickling Psalter) (New York, Morgan Library & Museum 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)) * Milan Theodore (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana C. 301. inf.) * Rawlinson Gospels (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson G. 167 (S.C. no. 14890)) * Ricemarch Psalter (Dublin, Trinity College MS A. 4. 20 (50)) *

Royal Gospel Book Royal may refer to: People * Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name * A member of a royal family Places United States * Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Royal, Illinois, a village * Royal, Iowa, a c ...

(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 The Royal Prayer Book (London, British Library Royal MS 2.A.XX) is a collection of prayers believed to have been copied in the late eighth century or the early ninth century. It was written in West Mercia, likely either in or around Wor ...

(London, British Library Royal MS 2.A.XX) * Salaberga Psalter (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz MS Hamilton 553) * Southampton Psalter (Cambridge, St. John's College MS C. 9 (59)) * St. Gall Gospel Book (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 Aureus (Stockholm, Royal Library MS A. 135) *

- for binding * Stowe Missal (Dublin, Royal Irish Academy MS D. II. 3, ff. 12-67) * Stuttgart Psalter (Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Cod. Bibl. 2. 12) *

Tiberius Bede 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, another of which ...

(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 (, also , , ; nl, label=also Dutch language, Dutch, Valencijn; pcd, Valincyinnes or ; la, Valentianae) is a communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, Hauts-de-France, Fra ...

(Valenciennes, Bibliothèque Municipale MS 99) *

Vespasian Psalter The Vespasian Psalter (London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A I) is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated psalter decorated in a partly Insular style produced in the second or third quarter of the 8th century. It contains an interlinear gloss in Old E ...

(London, British Library

Cotton MS Vespasian This is an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection of the British Library. Some manuscripts were destroyed or damaged in a fire at Ashburnham House in 1731, and a few are kept in othe ...

A. I) * Vitellius Psalter (London, British Library Cotton MS Vitellius F. XI) * Wurzburg St. Paul (Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek Cod. M. p. th. F. 69)

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