GUIDE TO ONLINE RESOURCES

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 Dil Blrai (English-OI glossary and verb forms database and thesaurus) http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/sengoidelc/duil-belrai/english.html

by Nicole Volmering

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 Manuscripts http://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 Hibernicae http://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. *datl: a bibliography for Celtic studies http://www.vanhamel.nl/wiki/index.php?title=Van_Hamel_wiki:*datl%C4%81 (under development) See also: *selg - A catalogue of primary source materials for Celtic studies http://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. Wrights 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. Scla 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 dont 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 Sengodelc forsind Eterln (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 1350-1425 http://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:GrecoRoman&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 your manuscript, please get it touch with: For TCD, please contact Estelle Gittins (gittinse@tcd.ie) from the Manuscripts and Archives Research Library; for the RIA, contact Siobhn Fitzpatrick (s.fitzpatrick@ria.ie) Note that, apart from these very useful cards, you will require a letter of introduction from either your supervisor or the Head of Department for your FIRST visit.