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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
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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.
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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.
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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/
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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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