Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts are those

manuscript A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. More recently, the term has ...

s made in

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

and

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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 A scriptorium () was a writing room in medieval European monasteries for the copying and Illuminated manuscript, illuminating of manuscripts by scribes. The term has perhaps been over-used—only some monasteries had special rooms set aside for ...

founded by Hiberno-Scottish or

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

missionaries A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Thomas Hale 'On Being a Miss ...

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 Insular art, also known as Hiberno-Saxon art, was produced in the sub-Roman Britain, post-Roman era of Great Britain and Ireland. The term derives from ''insula'', the Latin language, Latin term for "island"; in this period Britain and Ireland ...

. 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 ...

and also

Insular script Insular script is a Middle Ages, medieval script (styles of handwriting), script system originating in Ireland that spread to England and continental Europe under the influence of Hiberno-Scottish mission, Irish Christianity. Irish missionaries ...

. 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 The Barberini Gospels is an illuminated Hiberno-Saxon manuscript A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reprodu ...

(Rome, Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica MS Barberini Lat. 570) *

Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 10861 Lives of Saints A library is a collection of Book, books, and possibly other Document, materials and Media (communication), media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions. Libraries provide physical (hard copies) or electron ...

(Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 10861) * Gospels of Saint Gatien of Tours (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 palimpse ...

(Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS S. 45. sup.) * Ambrosiana Orosius (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS D. 23. sup.) *

Bodleian Ovid The Bodleian Library () is the main research library of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1602 by Sir Thomas Bodley, it is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. With over 13 million printed items, it is the second-largest library in B ...

(Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Auct. F. 4. 32, ff. 37-47 (S. C. 2176) *

Bodleian Philippus The Bodleian Library () is the main research library of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1602 by Sir Thomas Bodley, it is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. With over 13 million printed items, it is the second-largest library in B ...

(Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 426 (S. C. 2327)) *

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

(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 The ''Book of Deer'' () (Cambridge University Library, MS. Ii.6.32) is a 10th-century Latin Gospel Book with early 12th-century additions in Latin, Old Irish and Scottish Gaelic. It contains the earliest surviving Gaelic writing from Scotland ...

(Cambridge, University Library, MS II. 6. 32) *

Book of Dimma The Book of Dimma (Dublin, Trinity College, MS.A.IV.23) is an 8th-century Irish pocket Gospel Book originally from the Abbey of Roscrea, founded by St. Crónán in County Tipperary, Ireland. In addition to the Gospels of Luke and John, it ha ...

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

Book of Durrow The Book of Durrow is an illuminated manuscript gospel book dated to that contains the Vulgate Latin text of the four Gospels, with some Irish variations, and other matter, written in Insular script, and richly illustrated in the style of Ins ...

(Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. 4. 5 (57)) *

Book of Kells The Book of Kells (; ; Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. I. 8 sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illustrated manuscript and Celts, Celtic Gospel book in Latin, containing the Gospel, four Gospels of the New Testament togeth ...

(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 service ...

(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: , ) 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 and the roo ...

(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 second century AD the term (, from which the English word originated as a calque) came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported. In this sense ...

(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 The Cathach of St. Columba, known as the Cathach (meaning "the Battler"),O'Neill (2014), p. 12 is a late 6th century Insular psalter. It is the oldest surviving manuscript in Ireland, and the second oldest Latin psalter in the world. Its cumdach ...

(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 version of the Christian Bible. It was produced around 700 in the northeast of England, at the Benedictine Monkwearmouth–Jarr ...

(Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana MS Amiatinus 1) * Codex Bigotianus (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 281, 298) *

Codex Eyckensis The eighth-century Codex Eyckensis is a Gospel Book based on two constituent manuscripts that were bound as a single codex from (presumably) the twelfth century until 1988. The Codex Eyckensis is the oldest book in Belgium. Since the eighth century ...

(Maaseik, Church of Saint Catherine, Treasury, s.n.) *

Codex Usserianus Primus Codex Usserianus Primus (Dublin, Trinity College Library, 55) is an early 7th-century Old Latin Gospel Book. It is dated palaeographically to the 6th or 7th century. It is designated by r (traditional system). Description The manuscript is dama ...

(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 (

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 s ...

) 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 (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 Gospel ...

(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 The Hereford Gospels (Hereford, Hereford Cathedral Library, MS P. I. 2) is an 8th-century illuminated manuscript gospel book in insular script ( minuscule), with large illuminated initials in the Insular style. This is a very late Anglo-Saxon ...

(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 Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5 ...

(Leningrad, Public Library Cod. Q. v. I. 18) *

Leningrad Gospels The Saint Petersburg Gospels or Leningrad Gospels (housed in Saint Petersburg at the Imperial Public Library Cod. F. v. I. 8) is an illuminated manuscript of the gospels in Hiberno-Saxon style dating from around 800 AD. This highly idiosyncratic w ...

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

Lichfield Gospels The Lichfield Gospels (also known as the St Chad Gospels, the Book of Chad, the Llandeilo Gospels, the St Teilo Gospels and variations of these) is an 8th-century Insular script, Insular Gospel Book housed in Lichfield Cathedral. There are 236 ...

(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 Bri ...

(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 The 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 inc ...

(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 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 The Stockholm Codex Aureus (Stockholm, National Library of Sweden, MS A. 135, also known as the Codex Aureus of Canterbury and Codex Aureus Holmiensis) is a Gospel book written in the mid-eighth century in Southumbria, probably in Canterbury, wh ...

(Stockholm, Royal Library MS A. 135) *

- for binding *

Stowe Missal The Stowe Missal (sometimes known as the Lorrha Missal), which is, strictly speaking, a sacramentary rather than a missal, is a small Irish illuminated manuscript written mainly in Latin with some Old Irish in the late eighth or early ninth centu ...

(Dublin, Royal Irish Academy MS D. II. 3, ff. 12-67) *

Stuttgart Psalter The Stuttgart Psalter (Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Bibl. fol. 23) is a richly illuminated 9th-century psalter, considered one of the most significant of the Carolingian period. Written in Carolingian minuscule, it contains 316 im ...

(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 h ...

(London, British Library

Cotton MS Tiberius 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 ...

C. II) *

Trier Gospels The Trier Gospels is a Gospel book that contains the works and illustration of: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It was copied by two scribes between the years 720 and 740 A.D. in Echternach Abbey The gospel is currently located at Trier Cathedral ...

(Trier, Domschatz Codex 61 (Bibliotheksnummer 134)) *

Turin Gospel Book Fragment Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...

(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 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 ...

(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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Hiberno-Saxon Insular art, also known as Hiberno-Saxon art, was produced in the post-Roman era of Great Britain and Ireland. The term derives from ''insula'', the Latin term for "island"; in this period Britain and Ireland shared a largely common style dif ...