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GUIDE TO ONLINE RESOURCES by Nicole Volmering

Irish language

eDIL

www.dil.ie Dinneen (later Irish)

http://www.scriobh.ie/Page.aspx?id=26&l=

Old Irish Online (University of Texas)

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/iriol-0-X.html

In Dúil Bélrai (English-OI glossary and verb forms database and thesaurus)

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/sengoidelc/duil-belrai/english.html

Manuscript sources and collections

1. ISOS

http://www.isos.dias.ie/

Provides access to a large amount of high quality digitised manuscript images accompanied by

descriptions of the manuscript and contents (in most cases). Register for even higher resolution

images.

2. MsOmit - Manuscript Sources to Old and Middle Irish Tales

http://www.ucc.ie/celt/MsOmit2010/index.htm

Contains fully referenced lists of

1. Early Medieval narrative texts in Irish language until ca. 1150;

2. abbreviated manuscript names;and a searchable version for downloading.

3. Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/

Find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web.

Searchable by place, date, language, author, text title, shelf mark, provenance, bibliography and

repository.

4. E-codices

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en

Access to all medieval and selected early modern manuscripts held in Switzerland

5. Early Manuscripts at Oxford University

http://image.ox.ac.uk/

This site provides access to over 80 early manuscripts now in institutions associated with the

University of Oxford.

Warning: some manuscripts are incomplete.

6. British Library Digitised Manuscripts

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx

Offers a selection of 419 digitised manuscripts housed in the BL. Search by keyword, manuscript

number, title, author/scribe, provenance, bibliography or date.

7. National Library of Wales Medieval Manuscriptshttp://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=4730



More relevant links at the Labyrinth Manuscripts Webpage:

http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/display.cfm?Action=View&Cat

egory=Manuscripts

Palaeography

Contractions in Irish manuscripts (in Modern Irish)

http://www.scribhinn.org/lamhscr.html

Medieval Writing

http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/title.htm

Contains interactive exercises to practice a wide range of hands.

Manuscript Studies

http://www.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/ms-course.htm

The examples are mostly from English manuscripts but the course content discusses all aspects

of manuscript studies and includes a bibliography.

Capelli – Latin abbreviations

http://www.hist.msu.ru/Departments/Medieval/Cappelli/

Digitised version of the book.

UK National Archives Latin Palaeography

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latinpalaeography/

Exercises with manuscripts from their collection.

Texts, Articles and Bibliographies

Celtic Digital Initiative

http://www.ucc.ie/academic/smg/CDI/noticeboard.html

Lists the latest notifications for conferences and jobs and provides links to other relevant sites.

The ‘images’ section provides a selection of digitised images which are of interest to Celtic

scholars and students.

The ‘text archive’ section of the site provides access to PDFs of texts edited by Celtic scholars.

The ‘articles’ section provides access to a selection of PDFs of articles written by members of

the Department.

It also provides the Tables of Contents of various Celtic journals.

CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts

http://www.ucc.ie/celt/index.html

An online database of Irish literary and historical culture covering a

wide range of topics from various periods. It contains texts in Irish,

English, Hiberno-Norman French, Latin as well as translated texts.

The texts it contains are accompanied by introductions, background

information, graphics, translations where possible, and scholarly

bibliographies. The News page also contains bibliographical items.



The Resources page refers you to further useful links, such as Journals, Archives, Bibliographies

and MS-Omit.

See in particular the CELT ‘Bibliography of Bibliographies’.

Available to download at http://www.ucc.ie/celt/bibl_of_bibl.html.

Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicaehttp://www.ucd.ie/tlh/

An on-line research and teaching tool for Early and Medieval Irish.

The published texts are grouped in three target categories:

• Franciscan A manuscripts

• New diplomatic editions

• Texts no longer readily accessible.

The title of each text is linked to three different files, labelled Header (editorial info), Text and

XML (encoded text). Where a translation is supplied, links will likewise be provided to its

Header, Text and XML files.

CSANA Bibliography

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/celtic/csanabib.html

Searchable by keyword, phrase, author, or subject. Also provides a text file of the bibliography.

Continuously updated.

*datlā : a bibliography for Celtic studies

http://www.vanhamel.nl/wiki/index.php?title=Van_Hamel_wiki:*datl%C4%81

(under development) See also:

*selgā - A catalogue of primary source materials for Celtic studieshttp://www.vanhamel.nl/wiki/index.php?title=Van_Hamel_wiki:*selg%C4%81

International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)

Access through the library website (databases).

Charles D. Wright’s bibliographies

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/cdwright/www/index.html

and: http://www.ucc.ie/academic/smg/CDI/JournalTOCs/oldirishbib.html

Presents a series of bibliographies covering a variety of topics in Medieval Studies, including

Medieval Irish.

BILL - Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature

http://bill.celt.dias.ie/

Diligently maintained and updated by the scholars at the School of Celtic Studies of the DIAS.

The print edition consists of three parts: before 1912; 1913-41; and 1942-71. The online version

is continuous from 1972.

Searchable by Author, Periodical, Series, Books, as well as sources, initial lines of verse,

manuscript repositories and words/proper names. Classified under A-N on the basis of subject.



independent websites:

Mary Jones’ Celtic Literature Collective

http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/index_irish.html

Includes reproductions of many Irish texts (out of copyright) as well as translations.

Scéla

http://www.volny.cz/enelen/sc.htm Catalogue of Early Irish tales alphabetically or by tale type, with information on MSS, editions

and translations.

and don’t forget to search www.archive.org for out-of-print items!

MishMash of General Medieval and Other Relevant Sites

Strachan online

http://www.archive.org/stream/oldirishparadigm00stra#page/n7/mode/2up

Sengoídelc forsind Eterlín (also Univ. of the Highlands)

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/sengoidelc/iul/

Sources for the Irish language

http://www.uni-due.de/DI/Sources.htm#internet

Focail as Irisleabhair (UCC, Sean

http://www.ucc.ie/faculties/celtic/damh1.html

Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Ireland (FMRSI)

http://fmrsi.wordpress.com/ Society for the Study of Medieval Language and Literature (SSMLL/Medium Aevum)

http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/index.shtml

ASNAC blog

http://anglosaxonnorseandceltic.blogspot.com/

Dictionary of the Welsh language project

http://www.wales.ac.uk/dictionary/

Monastic Wales

http://www.monasticwales.org/browsedb.php?func=sourcelist

Labyrinth Resources for Medieval Studies

http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/

ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

http://the-orb.net/index.html

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook.asp

What Every Medievalist Should Know (WEMSK)

http://www.the-orb.net/wemsk/subjectindex.html

Meta-Meta-Meta-Medieval (link to resources list)

http://metametamedieval.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/medieval-renaissance-resources/

Welsh Prose 1350-1425http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk/



The Literary Encyclopaedia

http://www.litencyc.com/index.php

Medieval Latin Online Textbook

http://www.mythfolklore.net/medieval_latin/index.html

Perseus Collection Greek and Roman Materials

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman&redirect=true

(incl. word study tool: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/search?redirect=true )

Medievalists.net (news and entertainment)

http://www.medievalists.net/

NOTE

Visiting other libraries and institutions

If you decide to abandon the web for what it is and want to visit other libraries and institutions

to see your favourite manuscript or to read some books not available here, make sure to obtain

the following cards from the library:

SCONUL (libraries in the UK and Ireland)

http://booleweb.ucc.ie/index.php?pageID=236

ALCID (libraries in Ireland)

http://booleweb.ucc.ie/index.php?pageID=234

For ordering images from the relevant libraries or making an appointment for viewing yourmanuscript, please get it touch with: For TCD, please contact Estelle Gittins ( [email protected] ) from the Manuscripts and ArchivesResearch Library; for the RIA, contact Siobhán Fitzpatrick ( [email protected] ) Note that, apart from these very useful cards, you will require a letter of introduction from eitheryour supervisor or the Head of Department for your FIRST visit.

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