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Irish Script on Screen is a project of the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Aims to create digital images of Irish manuscripts.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The @irishexaminer.bsky.social had an article by me about the new edition of Nauigatio St Brendani on the weekend.
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Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) @dias-isos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/3📜✨Nua ar ISOS: Russell Library, Maynooth Dhá lámhscríbhinn Ghaeilge ón 19ú haois, scríofa ag Murthy Sheehy. Scéalta Fiannaíochta, filíocht, seanchas &traidisiún liteartha. A fascinating glimpse into Irish writing &scribal culture. Míle buíochas do🙏 @mulibrary.bsky.social @dias.ie #DIASdiscovers
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...
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Leabhar Gabhála / The Book of the Invasions - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS 23 M 70 and MS 23 K 32 (Cat No. 617) A.D. 1631
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Many folios have been lost over the centuries. There may have been 368 folios in the manuscript in the 15th C and just 157 folios now survive. Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...
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Book of Uí Mhaine / The Book of Hy Many / The Book of the O’Kellys / Book of Ó Dubhagáin - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS D ii 1 (Cat. no. 1225) c. A.D. 1394
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Read our latest blog by Halldóra Kristinsdóttir (National and University Library of Iceland). She describes an Icelandic manuscript in the RIA collection, recently added to Handrit.is. Images were provided by our colleagues at @dias-isos.bsky.social. www.ria.ie/blog/iceland...
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for September 2026 is Dublin, TCD MS 1698, containing excerpts from the surgical treatise by Petrus de Argellata, a compilatory text on wounds and remedies for conditions of the head: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...
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Annals of Connacht - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS C iii 1 (Cat. No. 1219) 16th Century
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS C iii 1, the Annals of Connacht. This manuscript records episodes in the history of Gaelic Ireland from AD 1224 to AD 1544, with one later entry (in different ink) for the year 1562. There are short gaps in the text where a pair of leaves may have been lost.
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Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) @dias-isos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/2📜New on ISOS: American Irish Historical Society Chronicon Scotorum, 18th-cent. vellum manuscript copied by Micheál mac Peadair Í. Longáin in 1711. Colophon records the copying in Co. Limerick when Longáin was 18. Delighted to welcome this AIHS collaboration. Thks to Mark Lindenburg, AIHS Curator.
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...
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Book of Fermoy - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS 23 E 29 (Cat. No. 1134) 14th – 16th Century
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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lá cainteanna agus seoladh eagráin nua den Navigatio Sancti Brendani A day of talks to mark the launch of the new edition and translation of the Voyage of St Brendan 24 Meán Fómhair / September 2026 DIAS #DIASdiscovers www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-voyage...
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The Voyage of St Brendan, A European Odyssey
A day of events to celebrate the launch of a modern edition and English translation of the text
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie. The manuscript is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday-Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 F 16, the Book of O’Gara. This important collection of poetry, compiled in the 1650s in continental Europe, preserves earlier material from sources that have since been lost.
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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
To view this Irish language manuscript along with many others visit @dias-isos.bsky.social www.isos.dias.ie/collection/k...
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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Our #Manuscript of the Month for August is MS17 a medical text from the 15th century which discusses wound, eye-ailments and cures. The #marginalia of field work and hawking brings to life the landscape of Ireland at that time. @kingsinns.bsky.social #archives #medieval #KingsInns #GLAM
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for August 2026 (brought to you by @siobhbar.bsky.social) is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 N 17, containing works on anatomy and uroscopy; medical aphorisms; and this charm for curing epilepsy: 📜📖 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
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Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) @dias-isos.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Delighted to see another UCD–OFM manuscript now available on Irish Script On Screen 📖
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Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @dias.ie · 19/06/2026
🎂 Today, 19 June 2026, we celebrate 86 years of #DIAS! Since 1940, DIAS has brought together researchers to advance knowledge across fields from physics and cosmology to Celtic studies and geophysics Here's to 86 years of collaboration and curiosity - and to all the discoveries still to come! 🎉
HAPPY DIAS DAY
Est 19th June 1940
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Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) @dias-isos.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
1/3📜✨ New on ISOS: Private collection, Lincoln MS 2. Medicinal cures, astronomy & practical lore 19th-c manuscript (60pp) written by Mártan Ó Driscóil of Bawnard, Co. Waterford (1855). A fascinating compilation of remedies, herbal medicine, charms, astronomical notes & vernacular knowledge. @dias.ie
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...
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Stowe Missal - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS D ii 3 (Cat. No. 1238) A.D. 792-803
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Fine Script Comparative approaches to legal marginalia circulating in Europe and the Middle East between 1100 and 1700 Where: Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris or online When: 31.8.-1.9.2026 Online registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fine-s...
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The Fine Script
Conference exploring comparative approaches to legal marginalia circulating in Europe and the Middle East between 1100 and 1700
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 A 4, containing texts on uroscopy copied in the 16th century by Aodh Ó Cendamháin, physician to the O’Flahertys in Co. Mayo: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It was the subject of our most recent Gaelic Manuscripts conference in partnership with @maynoothuniversity.ie and @dias.ie. You can listen back to some of the lectures. Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie
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Leabhar Mór Leacain / The Book of Lecan - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS 23 P 2 (Cat. No. 535) A.D. 1397-1418
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Library is delighted to announce that another Gaelic manuscript has been digitised and added to @dias-isos.bsky.social. RIA MS B iv 1 is a 17th century paper manuscript containing some 494 pages of mostly early modern Irish tales and verse. www.ria.ie/2026/05/26/a...
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A manuscript of early modern Irish poetry and prose (RIA MS B iv 1) newly added to Irish Script on Screen - Royal Irish Academy
Read about the latest Gaelic manuscript from the Royal Irish Academy collection to be digitised and added to Irish Script on Screen.
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Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) @dias-isos.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
1/2📜✨ New on ISOS: UCD Archives@ucdarchives.bsky.social MS F 1, 17th c., contains medieval Latin Lives of Irish saints from the Franciscan Killiney collection. 🙏 Thanks to Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social for cataloguing and highlighting this manuscript for digitisation. #DIASdiscovers
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for May 2026 is Dublin, @nlireland.bsky.social MS G453, written primarily by Cathal Ó Duinnshléibhe in 1592/3 and containing this Irish translation of a popular versified work on health regimen: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...
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Book of Ballymote - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS 23 P 12 (Cat. No. 536) A.D. 1391
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Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) @dias-isos.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New manuscript Alert! 🚨
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Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) @dias-isos.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
1/2📜Newly digitised on ISOS from RIA @rialibrary.bsky.social MS B iv 1, a 17th-cent. Irish manuscript associated with the Ó Duibhgeannáin family of Co. Sligo. Scribe Dáibhí Ó Duibhgeannáin preserves historical, genealogical & literary material, offering insight into later Gaelic scholarly culture.📖✍️
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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Scéim na mac léinn samhraidh 2026 Summer studentships 2026 Bí linn i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh! Deis le scileanna taighde a fhoghlaim. Stipinn ar fáil. Join us in SCS! A chance to acquire research experience. A stipendium is paid. Sprioc: 27 Bealtaine Deadline: 27 May www.dias.ie/dias-summer-...
DIAS Building Dublin
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
⚠️Event alert: OGHAM - THE EARLIEST WRITTEN IRISH 16 May 2026 Lismore Heritage Centre Co. Waterford Speakers: @ndefaoite.bsky.social (@maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social) @davidstifter.bsky.social Fionnbarr Moore NMS Edel Bhreathnach Tickets: www.eventbrite.ie/e/ogham-the-...
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for April 2026 is London, British Library MS Egerton 159, written in 1592 by the Leinster physician Tadhg Mac Caisín and recently digitised for the @researchireland.ie LEIGHEAS project! Read more about it here: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
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Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) @dias-isos.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
1/3 📜✨ New on ISOS: Russell Library, Maynooth Three Irish-language manuscripts (19th c.). Grammar, poetry, devotion & tradition, scribes Seán Ó Coileáin, Denis Murray & Seosamh Ó Longáin. Ogham lore, spiritual texts & literary reflection. 🙏 Thanks to @mulibrary.bsky.social @dias.ie #DIASdiscovers
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig! The Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for March 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 O 6, containing texts on uroscopy, poisons & their antidotes, the medicinal virtues of whiskey and these cool marginal drawings of fish: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Our #Manuscript of the Month for March is MS12 which tells the tale of the #Iliad. Including the destruction of #Troy and the search for the #GoldenFleece. It was written in 1492 and can be seen fully digitized here through @dias-isos.bsky.social www.isos.dias.ie/KINGS/KINGS_... #Gaeilge #SnaG26
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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Scoláireacht bliana le fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh 1 Year scholarship available in SCS @dias.ie Sonraí / Details: www.dias.ie/2026/03/06/v...
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies building in Dublin, Ireland
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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
From our unique Irish #Manuscripts Collection "The Names in English, Irish, and Latin; of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles, or Insects, which are known and propagated in Ireland" See it here: www.isos.dias.ie/KINGS/KINGS_... @dias-isos.bsky.social #Gaeilge #SnaG26 #Irish #IrishLanguage #gael
A three column list of animals, fish and insects in English, Irish and Latin. Includes cockle, cow, cuttle, cricket.
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...
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Lebor na hUidre / The Book of the Dun Cow - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS 23 E 25 (Cat. No. 1229) Before A.D. 1106
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Blagiontráíl nua: Táin Bó Cuailnge ó Éirinn go dtí an Astráil agus ar líne! Léigh anois! www.ria.ie/blog/tain-bo... @dias-isos.bsky.social @corrigans.bsky.social
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie: www.ria.ie/collections/... The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday-Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket required.
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The Book of O’Lees / Book of Hy-Brasil - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS 23 P 10 (ii) (Cat. No. 453) 15th Century
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A very cool 18ᵗʰ/19ᵗʰ-century manuscript from the Russell Library at @mulibrary.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie. From p. 75 onwards (www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...), it contains a fascinating variety of "cryptographic" variants of the ogam script, including the "Vergean Cryptography" (i.e... /1
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MS CF 15 (Maynooth University)
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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Seimineáir SCS SCS seminars 5 pm, DIAS, 10 Burlington Road Luan/Monday: Prof Ruairí Ó hUiginn, `The rosc passages in Oideadh Chonlaoich' Céadaoin/Wednesday: Dr Daniel Watson, `The Epitome of Eriugena's Periphyseon in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Auct. F. 3. 15.' #DIASdiscovers @dias.ie
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Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) @dias-isos.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
1/3 📜✨ New on ISOS: Russell Library, Maynooth Two remarkable Irish-language manuscripts (18th & 19th c.). Scribes include Pól Ó Longáin & Seán Ó Laochadh. Dialogues, Ogham lore, heroic saga, poetry & genealogies. 🙏Thanks to @mulibrary.bsky.social @dias.ie @dias-isos.bsky.social #DIASdiscovers
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Visit @dias-isos.bsky.social to view the whole text: www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2... You can also visit the @ucc.ie resource Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition (CELT) to view a transcription and to find more information about translations and critical editions. celt.ucc.ie/published/G2...
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MS 23 P 16 (An Leabhar Breac) (Royal Irish Academy)
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...
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Annals of the Four Masters - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS C iii 3 (Cat. No. 1220) ; RIA MS 23 P 6 (Cat. No. 687) ; RIA MA 23 P 7 (Cat. No. 688) A.D. 1632-1636
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Another year, another series of Irish medical manuscripts! The LEIGHEAS project Manuscript of the Month for January 2026 is Dublin, TCD 1357 (H.4.16), written in Co. Mayo in 1563 and containing several texts on uroscopy: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
...It includes the name of the signs of the Zodiac, the planets, the months and numeral figures. Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie: www.ria.ie/collections/...
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Astronomical and Medical Tract - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS B ii 1 (Cat. No. 1216) Early 15th Century
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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Here's a scribe who drew what he would rather be doing than working - smoking a pipe. In the @kingsinns.bsky.social we hold numerous Irish Manuscripts that discuss the history of Ireland, Greek Myths and Christianity www.isos.dias.ie/collection/k... View it online with @dias-isos.bsky.social
Drawing of a man in profile smoking a long pipe in the margins of a medieval manuscript
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 05/01/2026
It was written in Irish in 1631 at the Franciscan convent of Lisgoole beside Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh. About two thirds of the manuscript survives. Learn more & view the digital images of the Manuscript (provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social ©️RIA Library) on our website: www.ria.ie/collections/...
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Leabhar Gabhála / The Book of the Invasions - Royal Irish Academy
RIA MS 23 M 70 and MS 23 K 32 (Cat No. 617) A.D. 1631
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for December 2025 is TCD MS 1435 (E.3.30), containing Irish versions of works by Petrus de Argellata, Bernard of Gordon & John of Gaddesden, as well as this diagram of the 7 tunics of the eye: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
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