List of Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts

Colophon to Matthew in Durham Cathedral Library, MS A. II. 10.

Evangelist symbol for Matthew, from the Book of Durrow.

Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit Liber generationis of the Gospel of Matthew.

The symbol of Mark from the Echternach Gospels.

Folio 183r for the Book of Kells. Decorated text Erat autem hora tercia.

Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts are those manuscripts made in Ireland and Great Britain 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 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 and also Insular script. 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)
(Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS lat. 10861)
(Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS. nouv. acq. lat. 1587)
Ambrosiana Jerome (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS S. 45. sup.)
Ambrosiana Orosius (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS D. 23. sup.)
(Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Auct. F. 4. 32, ff. 37-47 (S. C. 2176)
(Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 426 (S. C. 2327))
Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52)
Book of Cerne (Cambridge, University Library, MS L1. 1. 10)
Book of Deer (Cambridge, University Library, MS II. 6. 32)
Book of Dimma (Dublin, Trinity College Library MS A. 4. 23 (59))
Book of Durrow (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. 4. 5 (57))
Book of Kells (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A I. 6. (58))
Book of Mulling (Dublin, Trinity College Library MS A. I. 15 (60))
Book of Nunnaminster (London, British Library Harley MS 2965)
(London, British Library Add MS 40618)
(London, British Library Add MS 36929)
(London, British Library Harley MS 1023)
Gospels of Mael Brigte (London, British Library, Harley MS 1802)
(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 (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana MS Amiatinus 1)
(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 (Garland of Howth) (Dublin, Trinity College MS A. 4. 6 (56))
(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) British Library - for binding
(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 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 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 (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 9389)
(Freiburg im Breisgau, Universitätsbibliothek Cod. 702)
(Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Cod. Memb I. 18)
(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, Landesbibliothek Cod. CLXVII)
(Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS Voss. lat. F. 4, ff. 4-33)
(Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS. B. P. L. 67)
(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, Public Library Cod. Q. v. XIV. 1)
Lichfield Gospels (Book of St. Chad) (Lichfield, Cathedral Library)
Lindisfarne Gospels (London, BL, Cotton MS Nero D. IV)
Lothian Psalter (Blickling Psalter) (New York, Morgan Library & Museum MS M. 776)
Macdurnan Gospels (London, Lambeth Palace MS 1370)
(Rushworth Gospels) (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Auct. D. 2. 19 (S. C. 3946))
(Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana C. 301. inf.)
(Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson G. 167 (S.C. no. 14890))
Ricemarch Psalter (Dublin, Trinity College MS A. 4. 20 (50))
(London, British Library Royal MS I. B. VII)
(Dublin, Royal Irish Academy MS D. II. 3, ff. 1-11)
Royal Prayer Book (London, British Library Royal MS 2.A.XX)
(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, Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 60)
(St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 904)
Stockholm Codex Aureus (Stockholm, Royal Library MS A. 135)
Stonyhurst Gospel - 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 (London, British Library Cotton MS Tiberius C. II)
Trier Gospels (Trier, Domschatz Codex 61 (Bibliotheksnummer 134))
(Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Cod. O. IV. 20)
(Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS 32 (Script. eccl. 484, ff. 94-105)
(Valenciennes, Bibliothèque Municipale MS 99)
Vespasian Psalter (London, British Library Cotton MS Vespasian A. I)
(London, British Library Cotton MS Vitellius F. XI)
(Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek Cod. M. p. th. F. 69)

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